There are several categories of Pentaho reports :
- Transactional Reports : Data to be used from transactions. Objective is to publish detailed and comprehensive data for day-to-day organization’s activities like purchase orders, sales reporting.
- Tactical Reports : data comes from daily or weekly transactional data summary. Objective is to present short-term information for instant decision making like replacing merchandise.
- Strategic Reports : data comes from stable and reliable sources to create long-term business information reports like season sales analysis.
- Helper Reports : data comes from various resources and includes images, videos to present a variety of activities.