Training - Course Description

Course:
Pentaho Architect’s Bootcamp

Id: SLN7000
Audience: All
Delivery Method: Instructor-led Lecture/Lab
Duration: 4 Days
Cost: USD $3,995
Note: Discounts do not apply to the Bootcamp course.

Course Availability

Course Benefits:

This course is designed to sufficiently tool a Pentaho solution developer to customize and extend Pentaho solutions and the Pentaho products (heavily focused on the Pentaho BI Server) to meet the needs of customers that are looking for functionality beyond “out of the box” capabilities.

The course is broken into three sections:

Section 1: Building Solutions (2 Days)

This portion of the course picks up where the Pentaho Bootcamp course leaves off. Students get a nuts and bolts introduction to action sequences, and then are taught advanced techniques with each of the pillars. The next topics covered are basic coverage of CDF and CDA and coverage of the various places where security measures are accessible throughout the solution building process.

An instructor led lab covering one end to end solution development effort will give the students an understanding of how all topics covered to date work together to build flexible, powerful BI solutions. The additional solutions referenced will all be available in the student reference material as self-led course work. The last portion of the course introduces the students to server tools available for maximizing the performance of their solutions.

Section 2: Integrating Pentaho (1 Day)

Students will receive instruction and supplemental reference materials on content integration, user interface integration, web service availability/use and security configuration as an integration point.

Section 3: Extending Pentaho (2 Days)

The students, starting with a prebuilt Eclipse environment, will be shown the best practices for working with Pentaho source code. Students will receive instruction, supplemented by training materials, on building actions, server plugins and PDI plugins. Students will be introduced to server interfaces that are commonly extended, with direction on where to find API reference materials. Students will be introduced to the XUL framework for Pentaho user interfaces as a customization toolset, and they will walk through an instructor led lab on a single security customization. Additional security customizations will be documented in supplemental training materials for self-led review.

Given any extra time, some useful J2EE/Spring concepts may be covered.

Who Should Attend:

The targeted audiences for this course are large Enterprise or OEM customers and Pentaho partners. The student will be a Pentaho content developer and/or software developer that is comfortable with XML, Javascript and Java.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Have a firm grasp of Pentaho action sequences and the power they bring to Pentaho solutions
• Develop dashboard solutions using Community Dashboard Framework, Community Data Access, action sequences and custom widgets
• Use Pentaho web services to provide integration points to key Pentaho solutions and web clients within your own web application
• Develop basic custom BI Server actions and plugins
• Understand the key APIs to leverage server extensibility
• Understand the Pentaho XUL Framework and the Pentaho UIs that use it
• Implement a custom security plan for the Pentaho BI Server

Course Prerequisites:

This course has a prerequisite of Course SLN5000, Pentaho Business Analytics Bootcamp, or equivalent expertise with the Pentaho Business Analytics suite. The course is a fast paced course intended for the most technical developers who already have a firm grasp of business intelligence and the Pentaho Business Analytics Suite.

Course Requirements:

Students will need a Microsoft® Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 computer with a 1GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, and a DVD drive, and 2GB of available hard drive space in order to fully participate in the classroom delivered courses. We suggest the computer have at least 1.3 GHz CPU, 2 GB of memory, and 2 GB of available hard drive space. Make sure you have a text editor such as Notepad; you may need it for some of the exercises.