Question: What does the dashboard contain? What is it for?
The way I view dashboards is more on as a quick window on your reports and on this case it has: Stoplight alerting and conditional formatting, Google Maps integration, Adobe Flash widget Support.
Question: Product Sales break down, what is this functionality for? How is it different from the KPI Dashboard?
This is a more detailed information about the break down of sales not like on the KPI indicators on the dashboard wherein it is more graphical in nature.
Question: Google map, what is this functionality for? How was this part of the software created (from scratch? if not, how?)?
-This is to give you a geagraphical view with regards to the sales made for each state. This is integrated to the Pentaho system.
Question: Buyer Product Analysis, what are the options for?
- You can view the desired product line and indicate what format you’d want like, HTML, PDF or even CSV file which can be saved to your PC!
Questions: How are the outputs of ‘Analyzer Report’ and ‘Report’ (no. 4) different? When would you prefer to use Analyzer Report?
- They are only different in pesentation but the information that they are giving are the same. I prefer to use the Report if I only wanted to add filters on the data or results that I need, whereas the analyzer report is a more detailed type of report.
Question: Based on the previous steps, who are the target users of this software? How is Pentaho different from MS Access?
- Small to medium scale businesses who wanted to organize their data’s and have a real time report since it is available over the internet it can be accessed at any location or at any PC, not like MS access where in you can only access it from the PC that it is saved. Plus pentaho is more customizable and I think more user friendly than MS Access becase the terms and use is simple and can be easily understood.
