Pentaho Reporting is a suite (collection of tools) for creating relational and analytical reports. It can be used to transform data into meaningful information. Pentaho allows generating reports in HTML, Excel, PDF, Text, CSV, and xml. This tutorial provides a basic understanding of how to generate professional reports using Pentaho Report Designer.

Audience

This tutorial is designed for all those readers who want to create, read, write, and modify Dynamic Reports using Java. In addition, it will also be quite useful for those readers who would pke to become a Data Analyst.

Prerequisites

Before you start proceeding with this tutorial, we assume that you have prior exposure to Core Java, Database Concepts, and SQL Queries.