BA design tools

The following table describes the BA design tools and their uses:

Design Tool	What It Does
Pentaho Aggregation Designer	Optimizes the multidimensional Mondrian data model.
Pentaho Metadata Editor	Creates relational data models and refines the models created with the Data Access Wizard.
Pentaho Report Designer	Interactive Reports is a web-based design interface which is used to create both simple and on-demand operational reports without depending on IT or report developers.
Pentaho Schema Workbench	Creates multidimensional Mondrian data models and refines the models created with the Data Access Wizard.

As a Pentaho administrator, you will need to know how to start and stop the BA design tools. Your IT administrator specifies the data connections for these tools.