Now that you've got the BI Suite installed and have verified that it is working, you're ready to start creating a basic report with the sample data. Once created, you'll publish the report to the output format of your choice, and to the Pentaho BI Server, where you will be able to share the report more directly. You'll start with Pentaho's most sophisticated reporting tool, Report Designer, and then move on to creating an ad hoc report through the BI Platform.
Pentaho Report Designer is a pixel-perfect report creation tool that allows you to have total control over how your data is selected, refined, formatted, and displayed in a variety of useful output formats. The Pentaho BI Platform combines elements of Pentaho Reporting and Pentaho Analysis into an easy-to-use Web interface that enables report scheduling and sharing.