Pentaho Business Analytics Report Designer

Course ID : BA2000

Duration In-class (в days) : 2 дн.

Price : 1,280$ - Partners
1,800$ - Customers

Overview

This course teaches learners how to design, create and publish custom reports with Report Designer. The Report Designer is a desktop tool that provides a visual design environment to easily create sophisticated and rich reports.

In this course users will learn how to transform data into meaningful information, tailored to audience needs. Pentaho Reporting includes a suite of tools that enables the creation of pixel-perfect reports in PDF, Excel, HTML, Text, Rich-Text-File, XML and CSV.

Audience for this course

• Business Analyst
• Pentaho Support

Objective

When you complete this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the key features of Report Designer
• Describe the navigational components of Report Designer
• Connect to data sources and use query design tools to write queries for reporting
• Add data elements and column labels to a report
• Create report groups
• Add group and report totals to a report
• Add an image to a report
• Add a message element to a report
• Format report elements and apply conditional formatting to report elements
• Format report bands
• Publish a report to the Pentaho User Console
• Add parameters and prompts to reports
• Create a hyperlink within a report
• Add a chart to a report
• Use sub-reports in a report
• Create a chart with drill down capability
• Use a Pentaho Data Integration transformation as the data source in a report
• Create reports using the Report Wizard
• View reports in the library of sample reports

Prerequisites for this course

• No technical skills required
• Basic data manipulation skills, such as working in spreadsheets or other analytics tools, is an Advantage

Outcomes

This course will help students to decrease time-to-market by learning how to quickly create compelling reports using Report Designer; become equipped with reporting best practices and techniques for minimizing maintenance and increasing the speed of content creation; significantly improve skill development and maximize retention.

Outline

Content Modules

• Working With Data Sources
• Getting Started With Pentaho Business Analytics
• Creating Reports With Report Designer, Part I
• Creating Reports With Report Designer, Part 2
• Advanced Reporting Topics
• Using the Report Wizard
• Viewing Sample Reports

Learning Activities—Labs

• Connect to a Data Source and Writing a Query
• Add Data Elements and Create Report Groups
• Create Group and Report Totals
• Create the Report Header and Footer, Format the Report and Publish the Report
• Add a Parameter and Hyperlink
• Create a Report With a Chart and a Sub-Report
• Create a Drillable Chart
• Create a Report With Multiple Sub-Reports
• Create and Deploy a Report Template