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Pentaho Data Integration Quick Start Guide

By : María Carina Roldán
Book Image

Pentaho Data Integration Quick Start Guide

By: María Carina Roldán

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration(PDI) is an intuitive and graphical environment packed with drag and drop design and powerful Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) capabilities. Given its power and flexibility, initial attempts to use the Pentaho Data Integration tool can be difficult or confusing. This book is the ideal solution. This book reduces your learning curve with PDI. It provides the guidance needed to make you productive, covering the main features of Pentaho Data Integration. It demonstrates the interactive features of the graphical designer, and takes you through the main ETL capabilities that the tool offers. By the end of the book, you will be able to use PDI for extracting, transforming, and loading the types of data you encounter on a daily basis.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Introducing PDI


PDI, also known as Kettle, is a very powerful tool. It can be used for performing typical Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes. PDI gets data from different sources and manipulates it in many ways (deduplicating, filtering, cleaning, and formatting, among others), saving the data in different formats and destinations. The following diagram illustrates a very simple example of an ETL process designed with PDI:

ETL process

Aside from the preceding processes, PDI serves to migrate data between applications, access and manipulate real-time data, access data in the cloud, orchestrate administrative tasks, and more.