Pentaho Business Analytics
Introducing Pentaho Business Analytics
Navigating the User Console
Creating Reports With Interactive Reports
Creating Analysis Reports With Analyzer
Creating Pentaho Dashboards

Introducing Pentaho Business Analytics
Connecting to a Data Source and Writing a Query
Adding Data Elements and Creating Report Groups
Create Group and Report Totals
Formatting the Report & Applying Conditional Formatting 
Adding Report Parameters
Creating Hyperlinks
Creating Charts and Sub-Reports
Create a report using Pentaho OLAP Cube
Use of formula
Parameter Creation
Publish the Reports to BI Server
User Level Security

Working with Charts in Report Designer
Creating Report Templates
Using the Report Wizard
Create a Drillable Chart

Working with Data Sources in Pentaho
How to Use Metadata Editor & Metadata Concepts
Metadata Editor's Query Editor
Introduction to OLAP and ROLAP
Dimensional Modeling: Cubes and Stars
Introduction to Mondrian
Introduction to Schema Workbench
How to Access Control with Schema Workbench
CTools Fundamentals
Running & debugging of jobs and transformation,Storing Log Information into log tables
SCD implementation How to implement Slowly Changing Dimension using Pentaho kettle.
CDC Implementation How to implement Change Data capture logic using kettle

Review the Dashboard Design Process
Advanced Layout Concepts
CDF Lifecycle and Components Lifecycle
Add the Technology and Year Parameter Components 
Developer Tools
Custom Add-ins
Map Components
Template Components
Role-based Dashboard Behavior
Embedding Dashboards in an HTML Page

Introduction
Objectives & Class Logistics
Learning the PDI User Interface
Introduction to Repositories
Working with Pentaho dashboard and Report
Working with Pentaho Server
How to achieve localization in reports
Serializing Multiple Text Files & De-serialize a File
Connecting to & Exploring a Database
Data Flows & LookUps
Calculating & Aggregating Order Quantity
JOB ORCHESTRATION
Setting up & Monitoring the Scheduler
Explore Data Integration Repository
Detailed Logging throughout Execution

Overview of Pentaho & BigData
Batch Processing Architecture
Hadoop Data Ingestion Tools
Hadoop ETL Connectivity
How to Process Data in Hadoop Using MapReduce
MapReduce with Pentaho Data Integration
Data Processing in Hadoop Using Carte/ Yarn
Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) Development

Data Mining Concepts
Data Preparation with PDI
Basics of Predictive Modeling
Basic Evaluation Metrics
Creating Visualizations for Viewing Predictive Results

Understanding the basics of clustering in Pentaho Data Integration
Creating a database connection
Moving a CSV file input to table output and Microsoft Excel output
M from Excel to the data grid and log.

What are the embedding approaches
How to Create a Pentaho Theme
Blending various data types and sizes
Integrating Pentaho BA Content (Mashup Embedding) & Extending
Unified Embedding

Pentaho Architectural Overview
How to Install the Pentaho BI Suite
Introducing the Pentaho User Console and Analysis Tools
Installing JDBC Drivers
KETTLE_HOME & KETTLE.PROPERTIES
Deploying SCD
Understanding Cube & Deploying Cubes for report creation
Working with Excel sheet
Pentaho data integration for report creation.
Configuring Pentaho Security
Configuring the Java Virtual Machine

Basic Troubleshooting Review
Logging Best Practices
Performance Tuning PDF
Concepts of JVM
Upgrading to latest version of Pentaho

Introduction to Pentaho BI Server and Pentaho Enterprise Server
Create a DATASOURCE at BI Serer
Create a Simple Pentaho Dashboard using Pentaho Dashboard Designer.
Create a drill down dashboard
Best Practices

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