Whoever heard of a successful open source project that didn't have a book? Mondrian has become successful without one... but our long-suffering users have had to piece together documentation from the scrappy online documentation, forum posts and mailing list archives. For years, my answer has been, "A book is a great idea, but I'm just too busy writing software!" Finally, I've teamed up with two Mondrian and Pentaho experts, Bill Back (@billbackbi) and Nicholas Goodman (@nagoodman), and we've set out to create the definitive guide. Now all the information will be in one place, right there between on your desk between your keyboard and your coffee mug.
Mondrian in Action serves several audiences. It explains to end-users and CIOs how Mondrian analytics can unlock the value in business data. For schema developers and DBAs, it describes in depth to how to create and administer a Mondrian system. Mondrian in Action covers the upcoming Mondrian 4 release, and includes chapters on security, multi-tenancy, and integration with other tools such as the Pentaho Business Analytics suite and Saiku, advanced analytics and visualizations, and integration with Big Data technologies.
The book is part of the acclaimed "In Action" series from Manning Publications. Books in this series are known for their direct approach to the subject, and concrete, practical examples. For countless open source projects, the definitive guide is an "In Action" book.
Speaking of open source, the Manning Early-Access Program (MEAP) is a 'release early, release often' process. This helps the community shape the book while it is being written. One chapter of the book is available to all. If you pre-order the book, you will get electronic access to draft chapters as they are completed, and a print copy when it is released. There is a forum where you can post questions and give feedback on the book.
Manning are offering a 50% discount for one day only. (It expires at midnight, eastern time, on November 1st.) Go to the publisher's site, http://www.manning.com/back, and enter discount code dotd1101au.
3 comments:
Excellent.
Now if you can make a deal to have a French translation, I'll use your book in my class. ;-)
Very interesting! I bought it making use of the 50% discount code and I'll read the MEAP ASAP. Can't wait to see Mondrian 4!
We are implementing Mondrian for one of our projects and we are facing some challenges in implementing multiple hierarchies of measure. For instance, we have product types as follows: loan,savings,Fd and so on. In this case only product types loan and FD has SUM,MIN,MAX and AVG, however others don't. Now defining the product types as measure, in mondrian, is it possible to define a cube that displays SUM,MIN,MAX and AVG on selection of respective product types.
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