Mondrian in Action

Preface

I joined Pentaho in 2011 with only a vague notion of business analytics or Mondrian and was told by my boss at the time that I should focus on becoming the Mondrian “expert” on the team. As I do when learning any new technology, my first action was to create a personal project to implement. In addition to my personal efforts, I was also assigned to support several clients dealing with Mondrian-related challenges.

As I started looking at the documentation and learning Mondrian, I quickly discovered that useful information was in multiple places, including the Mondrian site, forums, product websites, best practices, and even just in the heads of people who had been working with Mondrian for a while. To help myself, I began gathering notes ...