Information workers often need advanced tools to assimilate
and make sense of large volumes of data, in order to assist higher management
in making intelligent decisions. And the most widely used way to publish
information for end users is to create reports. Pentaho Report Designer is one
such advanced design tool that helps in creating report definitions. Reporting
needs vary from simple tabular data to financial statements to highly
interactive reports and Pentaho gives you immense flexibility to design reports
that can adapt to your data. These reports can extract information from any
data source including OLAP and SQL databases among others. Moreover, this tool
perfectly integrates itself with Pentaho BI server so that you can share
reports with peers and co-workers in their preferred format, i.e., in Excel,
PDF, HTML, XML or CSV.
Pentaho User Console
The Pentaho User Console was designed to be intuitive to
users accustomed to standard file managers like Windows Explorer, and Web
browsers like Firefox. This includes Interactive Reporting for quick and easy
data-driven reports, Pentaho Analyzer for ROLAP-based reports and charts and
Pentaho Dashboard Designer for informative overviews of key performance
indicators.
Pentaho Report Designer
The Pentaho Report Designer (PRD) is a desktop application
that provides a visual design environment to create report definitions. It has an
inventive user interface that enables you to define the visual appearance and
data flow of your report so that you can create quick pixel-perfect reports
efficiently. The multitude of configuration options and settings
along with extreme flexibility features of this platform makes it overwhelming
for novice users.
Basics of
Report Designing for Information Workers training from Koenig Solutions can
help users fully understand and utilize this powerful tool.
Pentaho Reporting is ideal for technically sound power users
but beginners can also learn to be experts in report designing. They can
alsouse it to run reports locally as if in a Desktop Reporting Tool. Also, it
allows users to publish finished reports onto the BI server of Pentaho.
Choose the Pentaho way of designing reports and do so much
more with business data than you had ever imagined.
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