Despite being out of the scope of this book, it’s worth to briefly introduce the Pentaho Demo. The Pentaho BI Platform Demo is a pre-configured installation that allows you to explore several capabilities of the Pentaho platform. It includes sample reports, cubes, and dashboards for Steel Wheels. Steel Wheels is a fictional store that sells all kind of scale replicas of vehicles. The following screenshot is a sample dashboard available in the demo:

The Pentaho BI Platform Demo is free and can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/. Under the Business Intelligence Server folder, look for the latest ...