Who Should Attend:
This course is designed for BI developers and analysts tasked with developing cubes for online analytical processing (OLAP).
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Understand the basic concepts of OLAP
- Employ industry standard BI development methodologies
- Explain the life cycle of Pentaho Analysis cubes
- Understand the basic architecture of Pentaho Analysis and its modules
- Understand the integration of Pentaho Analysis with the Pentaho BI Platform
- Develop star and snowflake OLAP schemas for use with Pentaho Analysis
- Employ OLAP security including cell-level access control
- Utilize aggregates and other techniques to improve Pentaho Analysis performance
- Use dimension sharing to build more expressive and maintainable cubes
- Understand the factors that impact performance
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Bring Your Own
We recommend you to bring a Microsoft® Windows XP or Vista computer with a 1GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, and a DVD drive, and 750 MB of available hard drive space in order to fully participate in the classroom delivered courses. We suggest the computer have at least 1.3 GHz CPU, 2 GB of memory, and 1 GB of available hard drive space. Make sure you have a text editor such as Notepad; you may need it for some of the exercises.
If you prefer to bring a computer with different configuration than mentioned above, please discuss with us how this will affect your training experience.
