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Pentaho Reporting includes Report Designer, Reporting Engine and Reporting SDK and is part of the Pentaho BI Platform , which uses the JFreeReport engine to serve production, operational and end-user reporting needs.
Category
Reporting Software
Features
Report Designer, Reporting Engine and Reporting SDK.
License
Open Source
Company
Pentaho
URL
https://community.hitachivantara.com
What is best?
Pentaho Reporting can be used as an out-of-the-box reporting application and as a reporting component for use in other applications.
What are the benefits?
Enterprise version has better support, documentation, bug fixes, security.
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6.2
Features & Functionality
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7.3
Advanced Features
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8.4
Integration
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Performance
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9.0
Customer Support
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Implementation
8.8
Renew & Recommend
8.9
Bottom Line
Pentaho Reporting can access a variety of data sources to create web based, ad hoc and desktop based pixel perfect reports which can be published and distributed.Pentaho Reporting styling is flexible.
8.6
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Pentaho offers, a suite of open source Business Intelligence (BI) products which provide data integration, OLAP services, reporting, dashboarding, data mining and ETL capabilities. Pentaho Reporting is a suite of Open Source reporting tools that enables the creation of relational and analytical reports from a wide range of data-sources. The suite includes the Report Designer, Reporting Engine and Reporting SDK. Pentaho Reporting is a part of the Pentaho BI Platform which has an Analysis module comprised of an Analysis Engine (ROLAP) and advanced analytical views. Pentaho Reporting uses the JFreeReport engine to serve production, operational and end-user reporting needs.
Pentaho Reporting
Pentaho Reporting
The suite consists of Report Designer, Reporting Engine and Reporting SDK. The Report Designer is a desktop reporting tool that provides a visual design environment to easily create sophisticated and rich reports. The Reporting Engine is an embeddable JAVA reporting library that is used by the report designer to generate reports. The library can be used in both in server-side and client side scenarios. Originally known as JFreeReport, it was designed to follow the approach of banded reporting with absolutely positioned elements. The Reporting Software Developers Kit (SDK) is a packaging of the Classic Engine, documentation and all of the supporting libraries required to embed the Pentaho Reporting Engine into your application.
Simple reports can be built by business users and more sophisticated reports would be built by a more tech-savvy person who can understand security rules, use the scheduler, setup bursting rules, create delivery options, etc. Pentaho provides multiple, integrated options for report design, including the Pentaho Report Design Wizard, which walks a user through a serious of steps to create a report. Pentaho also provides the Pentaho Report Designer, which provides a complete drag-and-drop report design environment to create simple or sophisticated reports.
Pentaho Reporting
Pentaho Reporting includes report navigation and report viewer components that can be integrated into portals or web pages. Pentaho Reporting styling is flexible, and allows the report designer to choose the granularity at which they want to manipulate the look and feel, right down to font styling on individual characters. The Pentaho BI Platform is built with audited workflow under the covers and the system can track report access, parameter selection, and report delivery.
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