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Pentaho for Big Data Analytics

By : Manoj R Patil, Feris Thia
Book Image

Pentaho for Big Data Analytics

By: Manoj R Patil, Feris Thia

Overview of this book

<p>Pentaho accelerates the realization of value from big data with the most complete solution for big data analytics and data integration. The real power of big data analytics is the abstraction between data and analytics. Data can be distributed across the cluster in various formats, and the analytics platform should have the capability to talk to different heterogeneous data stores and fetch the filtered data to enrich its value.<br /><br />Pentaho Big Data Analytics is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with clear, step-by-step exercises for using Pentaho to take advantage of big data systems, where data beats algorithm, and gives you a good grounding in using Pentaho Business Analytics’ capabilities.<br /><br />This book looks at the key ingredients of the Pentaho Business Analytics platform. We will see how to prepare the Pentaho BI environment, and get to grips with the big data ecosystem through. The book provides a clear guide to the essential tools of Pentaho Business Analytics, providing familiarity with both the various design tools for setting up reports, and the visualization tools necessary for complete data analysis.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Pentaho for Big Data Analytics
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Pentaho Data Integration (PDI)


In the previous chapter, we discussed Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) a little, which is a part of the Pentaho stack. The Pentaho ecosystem enables management of voluminous data with ease and also provides increased velocity and variety. (It does not matter how many data sources or whichever data types…!) PDI delivers "analytics ready" data to end users much faster with a choice of visual tools that reduce the time and complexity of the data analytics life cycle. PDI comes as a standalone Community Edition (CE) as well as bundled with Pentaho BA Server Enterprise Edition (EE).

PDI has some inherent advantages such as beautiful orchestration and integration for all data stores using its very powerful GUI. It has an adaptive Big Data Layer supporting almost any Big Data source with reduced complexity. In this way, data has become abstract from analytics giving a competitive advantage. Its simple drag-and-drop design supports a rich set of mapping objects, including...