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. 

About this Book 

Mondrian in Action teaches you to use Mondrian for strategic business analysis. In it, you'll learn how to organize and present data in a multidimensional manner. You'll follow apt and thoroughly explained examples showing how to create a Mondrian schema and then expand it to add basic security based on users' roles. Developers will discover how to integrate Mondrian using its olap4j Java API and web service calls via XML for Analysis. 

Written for developers building data analysis solutions. Appropriate for tech-savvy business users and DBAs needing to query and report on data. 

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

About the Authors 

William D. Back is an Enterprise Architect and Director of Pentaho Services. Nicholas Goodman is a Business Intelligence pro who has authored training courses on OLAP and Mondrian. Julian Hyde founded Mondrian and is the project's lead developer.

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