Get productive quickly with Pentaho Data Integration

Key Features

Take away the pain of starting with a complex and powerful system
Simplify your data transformation and integration work
Explore, transform, and validate your data with Pentaho Data Integration

Book DescriptionPentaho 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.

What you will learn

Design, preview and run transformations in Spoon
Run transformations using the Pan utility
Understand how to obtain data from different types of files
Connect to a database and explore it using the database explorer
Understand how to transform data in a variety of ways
Understand how to insert data into database tables
Design and run jobs for sequencing tasks and sending emails
Combine the execution of jobs and transformations

Who this book is forThis book is for software developers, business intelligence analysts, and others involved or interested in developing ETL solutions, or more generally, doing any kind of data manipulation.