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Amazing Pentaho!

I am using PRD ( Pentaho Report Designer ) to build few PDF reports. So far I used to generate hundreds of reports manually from Pentaho BI server and that was my big time consuming task. I came across new transformation output step in kettle "Pentaho Reporting Output" which helps in automating the report generation. Find the sample kettle transformation below in the diagram - Kettle Transformation using Report Output Initially I was trying to integrate PRD 3.8.x prpt file with PDI (aka kettle) 4.3 and could not make it work. Later on with the help from pentaho forum, it is found that all the family are typically not inter-compatible with all versions, esp. backward compatibility can be issue sometime. The simple reason for this would be cost as it is community edition. When I created report with latest PRD 3.9, I could integrate it with Kettle without any hassle. Jaspersoft and Pentaho are two leading open source BI solutions available in the market. But I found Pen