Showing posts with label Reporting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reporting. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Charts in Pentaho Reporting

Hi All,
Today I want to show you the different variety of Charts can be made using this powerful tool.

Pentaho Reporting supports following charts:
  • Area Chart by Line
  • Area Chart  
  • Bar Chart  
  • Bar Line Chart 
  • Bubble Chart by Line
  • DifferenceChart   
  • Line Chart  
  • Multi Pie Chart 
  • Pie   
  • Radar Chart  
  • Scatter Chart Date Param
  • Scatter XY Collector 
  • Waterfall Legacy  
  • XY Area Chart 
  • XY-Area-Line   
  • XY Bar Chart 
  • XY Line Chart
Below are Chart Reports screen-shots:














Pentaho Report Designer

Overview:

The Report Designer is a desktop reporting tool that provides a visual design environment to easily create sophisticated and rich reports. It is geared towards experienced and power users, who are familiar with the concepts and data-sources used.

Transform all your data into meaningful information tailored to your audience with Reporting, a suite of Open Source tools that allows you to create pixel-perfect reports of your data in PDF, Excel, HTML, Text, Rich-Text-File, XML and CSV. These computer generated reports easily refine data from various sources into a human readable form.

Download & Run:


Prerequisites: Java

First download the setup zip file, I explain for Linux & Windows for url:
http://community.pentaho.com/projects/reporting/

e.g. you downloaded the file "prd-ce-5.2.0.0-209.zip"

now unzip it, using the command-
$ unzip -qq prd-ce-5.2.0.0-209.zip

move to directory report-designer/ (prd-ce-5.2.0.0-209.zip will extract this directory)

To execute in Linux:
$ sh report-designer.sh

To execute in Windows:
Click on report-designer.bat file

Examples:
Pentaho Report Designer comes with some good example reports. You can get idea from those as well.




Some Report's Preview









References:
http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/COM/Pentaho+Reporting+Articles
https://training.pentaho.com/instructor-led-training/business-analytics-report-designer-ba2000---2-days

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Talend Data Quality

Today I'm going to demonstrate the sample results produced by Talend Data Quality (DQ) Tool. This gives us an idea how is DQ useful for you data migration projects.
To save our time I added many screen-shots of resultant analysis, you will find more functional ideas of Talend DQ.
Overview:

Talend Data Quality is a data profiler tool that can help us to know our data more deeply. It supports database, csv, excel (file based) and MDM data connections for
profiling and cleansing.
Simple Use Case:
Let say you have an excel file and you have to do a data migration task with that file. One way to start the task is open that file and check row by row the data of that file, select column and apply filters to check the redundant data, that is very time consuming work.
Another way to do that, use Talend Data Quality tool and do the same task in some clicks with many other useful details.

In short DQ can do the following tasks:-


By using this Talend Data Quality we can get following details of our data:-
(a) Catalog Analysis shows total number of rows, columns, indexes, view, keys and table listing with rows, keys and index.
(b) Table Analysis show various table data details.
​Column Analysis: 


Database Compare: