Mondrian in Action
Open Source Business Analytics
Published on 12. September 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-1-61729-098-5 (ISBN)
Description
DESCRIPTION
Business data is only as valuable as the intelligence that can be extracted from it. Mondrian, AKA Pentaho Analysis, is a lightning-fast data analysis engine designed for business users. With Mondrian, developers can explore strategic questions and get speed-of-thought responses to their queries. Using Mondrian requires no specialized technical background knowledge and it can be configured to fit into virtually any business data system.
Mondrian in Action teaches business users and developers how to use Mondrian and related tools for strategic business analysis. In it, they'll learn how to design and populate a data warehouse and present the data via a multi-dimensional model. They'll follow examples showing how to create a Mondrian schema and then expand it to add basic security based on the users' roles.
RETAIL SELLING POINTS
Mondrian from the ground up-no experience required
Develop custom Business Intelligence solutions
Valuable insights for business analysis
AUDIENCE
This book is for business users such as developers, data engineers, and data base administrators.
ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY
Multi-dimensional modeling is a way of looking at data from multiple perspectives, such as date, location, etc. Mondrian is a powerful open source analytics engine that allows users to organize data in ways that make analysis easy and efficient.
Business data is only as valuable as the intelligence that can be extracted from it. Mondrian, AKA Pentaho Analysis, is a lightning-fast data analysis engine designed for business users. With Mondrian, developers can explore strategic questions and get speed-of-thought responses to their queries. Using Mondrian requires no specialized technical background knowledge and it can be configured to fit into virtually any business data system.
Mondrian in Action teaches business users and developers how to use Mondrian and related tools for strategic business analysis. In it, they'll learn how to design and populate a data warehouse and present the data via a multi-dimensional model. They'll follow examples showing how to create a Mondrian schema and then expand it to add basic security based on the users' roles.
RETAIL SELLING POINTS
Mondrian from the ground up-no experience required
Develop custom Business Intelligence solutions
Valuable insights for business analysis
AUDIENCE
This book is for business users such as developers, data engineers, and data base administrators.
ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY
Multi-dimensional modeling is a way of looking at data from multiple perspectives, such as date, location, etc. Mondrian is a powerful open source analytics engine that allows users to organize data in ways that make analysis easy and efficient.
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Additional editions
Julian Hyde | William Back | Nicholas Goodman
Mondrian in Action
E-Book
09/2013
1st Edition
Manning
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Persons
AUTHOR BIO
Bill Back is an Enterprise Architect with Pentaho. He implements custom solutions using Mondrian as well as embedding and extending the system to meet the needs of a wide variety of industries. He also trains clients on the use of Mondrian and other Pentaho tools.
Nicholas Goodman is a Business Intelligence geek, consultant, hacker, blogger, speaker and entrepreneur. Nicholas founded and served as CEO of DynamoBI where he spent his days racing analytic databases and promoting LucidDB. He's worked on more than 50 Open Source BI customer implementations and has authored multiple training courses on OLAP, Mondrian, and Open Source BI.
Julian Hyde founded the Mondrian project in 2001. He continues as the project's lead developer, and as OLAP Architect at Pentaho. He has developed several database technologies over the years. He also has an active interest in emerging high-performance data management technologies and participates in several other open source projects.
Bill Back is an Enterprise Architect with Pentaho. He implements custom solutions using Mondrian as well as embedding and extending the system to meet the needs of a wide variety of industries. He also trains clients on the use of Mondrian and other Pentaho tools.
Nicholas Goodman is a Business Intelligence geek, consultant, hacker, blogger, speaker and entrepreneur. Nicholas founded and served as CEO of DynamoBI where he spent his days racing analytic databases and promoting LucidDB. He's worked on more than 50 Open Source BI customer implementations and has authored multiple training courses on OLAP, Mondrian, and Open Source BI.
Julian Hyde founded the Mondrian project in 2001. He continues as the project's lead developer, and as OLAP Architect at Pentaho. He has developed several database technologies over the years. He also has an active interest in emerging high-performance data management technologies and participates in several other open source projects.