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Course:
Pentaho Report Design Techniques
Id: RPT 1175
Type: Instructor led lecture / lab
Delivery Method: Online
Duration: 4 sessions (12 hours total)
Cost: $1,200 (2 Pentaho Credits)
Individual sessions: $300 USD
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 parametrization, 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:
Students will need a Microsoft Windows XP or Vista computer with a 1GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, and a DVD drive, and 750 MB 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 1 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. Online courses require a broadband
Internet connection, the use of a modern web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or Mozilla Firefox 2.0, and the installation of a player
to view and participate in the class.
Course Topic Sessions:
The online format of this course allows students to register for the entire course or for individual topic session. Contact us to register for for the entire course
and receive a 20% discount.
Getting Started (Learn More...)
Explores the foundational skills involved in designing and publishing reports with Pentaho Report Designer and the Pentaho BI Platform.
Designing Reports (Learn More...)
Teaches the skills to design high fidelity reports with charts, hyperlinking, subreports, and bands using the Pentaho Report Designer.
Parameterizing Reports (Learn More...)
Introduces the Pentaho Design Studio and techniques for parameterizing reports, dynamically constructing the data queries, and manipulating the report data.
Authoring Dynamic Reports (Learn More...)
Uses functions, calculations, and style expressions to design dynamic reports that include traffic lighting and conditional formatting.
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