Mondrian in Action

Mondrian in Action teaches business users and developers how to use Mondrian and related tools for strategic business analysis. You'll learn how to design and populate a data warehouse and present the data via a multidimensional model. You'll follow examples showing how to create a Mondrian schema and then expand it to add basic security based on the users' roles.

About the Technology

Mondrian is an open source, lightning-fast data analysis engine designed to help you explore your business data and perform speed-of-thought analysis. Mondrian can be, integrated into a wide variety of business analysis applications and learning it requires no specialized technical knowledge.

What's Inside

• Mondrian from the ground up-no experience required
• A primer on business analytics
• Using Mondrian with a variety of leading applications
• Optimizing and restricting business data for fast, secure analysis

Table of Contents
• Beyond reporting: business analytics
• Mondrian: a first look
• Creating the data mart
• Multidimensional modeling: making analytics data accessible
• How schemas grow
• Securing data
• Maximizing Mondrian performance
• Dynamic security
• Working with Mondrian and Pentaho
• Developing with Mondrian
• Advanced analytics