Tour the User Console and create your first reports

Try Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics

Version
9.3.x
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-95PDIA000-11
The User Console is a web-based design environment where you can analyze data, create interactive reports, dashboard reports, and build integrated dashboards to share business intelligence solutions with others in your organization and on the internet. In addition to its design features, the User Console offers a wide variety of system administration features for configuring the Pentaho Server, maintaining Pentaho licenses, setting up security, managing report scheduling, and tailoring system performance to meet your requirements.

If you have installed the trial download on your laptop or desktop machine, you are ready to get started exploring. If you have the software installed on a server, and want to use your machine to point to it, see Develop your BA environment for details.

Table. Table 1. Explore and Learn Pentaho Reporting Capabilities
Lesson Do This Notes
Tour the User Console

Quick tour of the Pentaho User Console (PUC)

  • Understand the features of the User Console
  • View the sample reports on the Samples tab of the Getting Started section
Create Your First Reports and Dashboards

Learn about Analyzer, Interactive Reports, and Dashboards

  • Created and saved an Interactive Report
  • Created and saved an Analysis Report
  • Created and saved a custom Dashboard
Schedule Your Report
  • Learn about scheduling reports. See the Pentaho Business Analytics document for details.
  • Scheduled a report to run and email automatically.
  • Received your report through email after the schedule runs.