Pentaho Report Design Techniques

Description

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.

Overview

id: 
RPT1175W
Objectifs: 

At the rate of 3 hours a day, you will 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
Public: 
This course is designed for report authors and designers with a strong understanding of SQL and relational database concepts.
Prerequisite: 
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.
Duration: 
12 hours
Price: 
CHF 1200.-

Course details

Course Topic Sessions:

The online format of this course allows students to register for the entire course or for individual topic session.

If you are interested in this course, please contact us.

Getting Started
Explores the foundational skills involved in designing and publishing reports with Pentaho Report Designer and the Pentaho BI Platform.

Designing Reports
Teaches the skills to design high fidelity reports with charts, hyperlinking, subreports, and bands using the Pentaho Report Designer.

Parameterizing Reports
Introduces the Pentaho Design Studio and techniques for parameterizing reports, dynamically constructing the data queries, and manipulating the report data.

Authoring Dynamic Reports
Uses functions, calculations, and style expressions to design dynamic reports that include traffic lighting and conditional formatting.

Prochaines formations
5 Jun 2012 - 8 Jun 2012 Pentaho : Data Integration for Database Developers >Français - Geneva
12 Jun 2012 - 15 Jun 2012 Pentaho Business Analytics Bootcamp >Français - Geneva
12 Jun 2012 - 15 Jun 2012 Pentaho Business Analytics Bootcamp >English - Londres
26 Jun 2012 - 29 Jun 2012 Pentaho Business Analytics Bootcamp >Français - Paris
11 Sep 2012 - 14 Sep 2012 Pentaho Business Analytics Bootcamp >English - Zurich
18 Sep 2012 - 21 Sep 2012 Pentaho Business Analytics Bootcamp >English - Birmingham
23 Oct 2012 - 26 Oct 2012 Pentaho Business Analytics Bootcamp >Français - Paris
23 Oct 2012 - 26 Oct 2012 Pentaho : Data Integration for Database Developers >English - Birmingham
5 Nov 2012 - 8 Nov 2012 Pentaho : Data Integration for Database Developers >Français - Geneva
13 Nov 2012 - 16 Nov 2012 Pentaho Business Analytics Bootcamp >English - London