Training - Course Description

Course:
What's new in Pentaho Business Analytics 4.0

Id: SLN9000C
Audience: All
Delivery Method: Online, Instructor-led Lecture/Lab
Duration: 4 Hours
Cost: USD $100

Course Availability

Sorry, no classes are available for this course at this time.

Course Benefits:

This course demonstrates the improvements in the Pentaho Business Analytics 4.0 release that assist developers in rapidly delivering a secure, scalable, flexible and easy to manage business analytics solutions.

Who Should Attend:

This course is designed for customers using a previous release of Pentaho Business Analytics who need information on the new features in release 4.0.

Learning Objectives:

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

  • Use interactive reports to:
    • Create drag-and-drop reports
    • Add, move and delete fields directly within the report canvas
    • Include inline formatting, filtering, sorting, grouping, aggregations and summary calculations
  • Describe and use the new features in Pentaho Business Analytics 4.0

Course Prerequisites:

This course has no formal course prerequisites, but it is recommended that students have experience with the Pentaho User Console.

Course Requirements:

A computer with:

  • Internet connectivity (for connecting to the online meeting environment)
  • Pentaho Business Analytics 4.0 installed (for the self-paced exercises)

Day 1

ModuleEst. Duration (hours)

New look for the user console

Demonstration

.5

Interactive reports

Interactive reporting primer

Accessing a data source

Adding data columns to the report page

Grouping and sorting

Filtering data

Summarizing numeric data

Formatting: adding fonts, colors and other customizations to the report

Saving and editing an interactive report

Exporting reports

Interactive reports and Pentaho report designer

1.5

Data analysis

Drill-down on charts

Creating multi-charts

Disabling auto-refresh

.5

Dashboard

Content linking

.5

Data access

Joining multiple tables (star-schema join)

.5

Bursting reports

Bursting reports using Pentaho Data Integration

.5