Self-Service BI
Interactive Report, Analyzer, and Dashboard Designer tools give business users the ability to build and explore reports without dependency on IT, accelerating data-driven decision-making.
Build implementation-level expertise across the full Pentaho Business Analytics platform — from BA server installation and data source configuration to OLAP modelling, paginated reporting, interactive analysis, dashboard design, and performance tuning for production BI environments.
HCE-5910 focuses on planning and implementing the Pentaho Business Analytics (BA) platform. The learning path connects server installation and administration through data source configuration, PUC navigation and security, OLAP/relational modelling tools, the full suite of reporting and analysis tools, and finally maintenance, performance tuning, and upgrade procedures.
The result is a complete Pentaho implementation skill set: understanding how Schema Workbench models, Metadata Editor definitions, Report Designer outputs, and Dashboard Designer views are deployed and managed through the BA server — from a freshly installed platform through to a performance-optimised production BI environment.
The challenges behind this syllabus — self-service BI, trusted data models, governed analytics delivery, and platform performance — remain central to enterprise analytics strategy and digital transformation programmes.
Interactive Report, Analyzer, and Dashboard Designer tools give business users the ability to build and explore reports without dependency on IT, accelerating data-driven decision-making.
Schema Workbench OLAP models and Metadata Editor relational models establish a governed semantic layer that ensures consistent, trusted metrics across all reports and dashboards.
Report Designer delivers highly formatted paginated reports for operational and financial use cases where pixel-perfect output and scheduled distribution are essential.
Mondrian engine tuning, Aggregation Designer, and BA server performance configuration enable organisations to serve large user populations with sub-second query response times.
Install and configure the Pentaho BA server and PDI client, complete post-installation administration tasks, and manage JNDI and JDBC data source connections.
Build Mondrian OLAP schemas using Schema Workbench, create relational metadata models in Metadata Editor, and design aggregation tables with Aggregation Designer to optimise query performance.
Navigate PUC, manage content folders, configure user and role security, schedule reports, and use PUC administration for logging, auditing, and server settings.
Create paginated reports in Report Designer, build Interactive Reports and Analyzer OLAP views within PUC, and design multi-component dashboards in Dashboard Designer.
Tune Pentaho BA server and Mondrian engine performance, configure logging for troubleshooting, manage repository backups, and plan and execute BA server upgrades.
Implement and maintain BA server security settings — manage users, roles, folder permissions, and content access controls across multi-user Pentaho deployments.
Open a module to explore the objectives. Only one module stays open at a time for clean navigation of this technical syllabus.
Developers building OLAP schemas, metadata models, and reports across Schema Workbench, Metadata Editor, Report Designer, and Analyzer.
Analysts creating self-service Interactive Reports, Analyzer views, and Dashboard Designer dashboards to drive business decisions.
Admins responsible for BA server installation, configuration, security, scheduling, performance tuning, and upgrade management.
Architects designing Pentaho BI platform implementations that integrate with enterprise data sources and meet governed analytics requirements.
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