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Course:
Pentaho Report Design Techniques
Id: RPT 1175W
Audience: Report Authors
Delivery Method: Instructor led, Online
Duration:4 days (12 hours)
Cost: USD $1,200
Course Availability
Course Benefits:
Reporting needs vary from simple tabular data to financial statements to highly interactive reports. This course teaches the fundamental and advanced
report design techniques to meet almost any reporting need. The course begins with a session that will help users create and publish their first report
in less than two hours. The next three sessions build upon that foundation and teach report parameterization, design techniques with subreports, report
functions and calculations, and conditional formatting.
Who Should Attend:
This course is designed for report authors and designers with a strong understanding of SQL and relational database concepts.
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Understand the basic architecture and tools of Pentaho Reporting and the Pentaho BI Platform
- Author complex and dynamic reports using the Pentaho Report Designer
- Use the Pentaho Design Studio to parameterize reports
- Construct reports against relational data sources
- Include charts and subreports in reports
- Use hyperlinks within reports to build a network of reports
- Integrate Pentaho Reports into custom web applications
- Employ calculations and grouping techniques within a report
- Dynamically build the SQL for a report
Course Prerequisites:
There are no Pentaho Training prerequisites for this course. The course is designed for students with a strong understanding of SQL and relational
database. A basic knowledge of web-applications is also suggested. The final session requires a strong understanding of HTML and HTML authoring techniques.
Course Requirements:
Our online courses are offered via WebEx. Visit WebEx for the minimal
system requirements. Additional information and tools to test your system are available at the
WebEx support site.
To complete the exercises, students will need a Microsoft® Windows XP or Vista, Linux or Mac OS X computer with a 1GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, and a DVD drive, and
750 MB of available hard drive space. We suggest the computer have at least 1.3 GHz CPU, 2 GB of memory, and 1 GB of available hard drive space. A text editor such
as Notepad may be needed for some of the tasks.
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