Pentaho BI Server is a Community Edition (CE) equivalent to BA Server of the Enterprise Edition (EE). They have differences in regards to core applications and configuration tools. Although this book focuses on CE, all the samples actually work with EE if you decide to switch. The BI Server comprises of two web applications, which are Pentaho User Console (PUC) and Pentaho Administration Console (PAC).

Throughout this chapter, we showed you how to obtain, install, run, and use the BI Server, PUC, and PAC.

This chapter also briefly explained what Pentaho solution and Pentaho Action Sequence files are. They will serve as the building blocks of Pentaho content and process development.

Pentaho Marketplace is a new, exciting feature that makes it easy for administrators to add new features easily from PUC. Through an example walkthrough process, we installed Saiku—a popular Pentaho plugin—using this feature.

Finally, we also learned how to administer data connections using both PUC and PAC.

With all of this set up, we are good to go to the next chapter, Churning Big Data with Pentaho.