# About Pentaho Report Designer Pentaho Report Designer is a sophisticated report creation tool that you can use standalone, or as part of the larger Pentaho Business Analytics suite. It enables professionals to create highly detailed reports based on adequately prepared data from virtually any data source. The purpose of this document is to provide instructions for creating a simple Report Designer report. This section contains walk-throughs for creating content in Report Designer. You must have Pentaho's sample database installed and available in order to follow the tutorials. Sample data is installed by default with Report Designer, though you or your system administrator may have removed it prior to production deployment. If it is been removed, you can simply reinstall Report Designer to get it back. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-try-pdia/archive-flattened-pages/report-designer-merged-pages/about-pentaho-report-designer.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.