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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)

Summary


In this chapter, you were introduced to Pentaho Data Integration. Specifically, you learned what PDI is, and you installed the tool. You were introduced to Spoon, PDI's graphical designer tool, and you created your first transformation. You were also introduced to the Kettle home directory and the kettle.properties file, which will be used throughout the rest of the book.

In Chapter 2, Getting Familiar with Spoon, you will learn much more about the process of creating, testing, and running transformations in Spoon.