We studied the Pentaho platform along with its tools in the previous chapter. This chapter will now serve up a basic technical setup and walkthrough that can serve as our grounding in using and extending Pentaho effectively.
As we learned earlier in Chapter 1, The Rise of Pentaho Analytics along with Big Data, Pentaho has a community-equivalent of the BA Server application, that is, the BI Server. The BI Server includes the following two web-based applications:
The deployment and configuration difference between Pentaho Enterprise Edition (EE) and Pentaho Community Edition (CE) lies in the ease of installation.
In Pentaho EE, you will have an installation script that eases the setting up of the application. In Pentaho CE, you will have to do everything manually from extracting, starting, stopping, and configuring the application.
This book will focus on Pentaho CE, but you can switch to EE easily once you get familiar with CE.