Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE - Third Edition: An end-to-end guide to exploring, transforming, and integrating your data across multiple sources
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Packt Publishing
Pentaho Data Integration(PDI) is an intuitive and graphical environment packed with drag-and-drop design and powerful Extract-Tranform-Load (ETL) capabilities. This book shows and explains the new interactive features of Spoon, the revamped look and feel, and the newest features of the tool including transformations and jobs Executors and the invaluable Metadata Injection capability.
We begin with the installation of PDI software and then move on to cover all the key PDI concepts. Each of the chapter introduces new features, enabling you to gradually get practicing with the tool. First, you will learn to do all kind of data manipulation and work with simple plain files. Then, the book teaches you how you can work with relational databases inside PDI. Moreover, you will be given a primer on data warehouse concepts and you will learn how to load data in a data warehouse. During the course of this book, you will be familiarized with its intuitive, graphical and drag-and-drop design environment.
By the end of this book, you will learn everything you need to know in order to meet your data manipulation requirements. Besides, your will be given best practices and advises for designing and deploying your projects.
About the Author
Mara Carina Roldn was born in Argentina; she earned her Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) and then moved to Buenos Aires where she has lived since 1994.
She has worked as a BI consultant for almost twenty years. She started working with Pentaho technology back in 2006. Over the last ten years she has been dedicated full time to developing BI solutions mainly as an ETL specialist using Pentaho tools. In all these years she worked for different companies including Assert Solutions, a Pentaho partner company based in Argentina, and Webdetails - a Portuguese company acquired by Pentaho in 2013. Currently, she works as an independent consultant.
Carina is the author of the first and second edition of Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Book, Packt Publishing and the co-author of the first and second edition of Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
- Explore the features and capabilities of Pentaho Data Integration 8 Community Edition
- Install and get started with PDI
- Learn the ins and outs of Spoon, the graphical designer tool
- Learn to get data from all kind of data sources, such as plain files, Excel spreadsheets, databases, and XML files
- Use Pentaho Data Integration to perform CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations on relationaldatabases
- Populate a data mart with Pentaho Data Integration
- Use Pentaho Data Integration to organize files and folders, run daily processes, deal with errors, and more
- Getting Started with Pentaho Data Integration
- Getting Started with Transformations
- Creating Basic Task Flows
- Reading and writing files
- Manipulating PDI Data and Metadata
- Controlling the Flow of Data
- Validating, Fixing and Cleansing data
- Transforming the Data by Coding
- Transforming the Dataset
- Performing Basic Operations with Databases
- Loading datamarts with PDI
- Creating Portable and Reusable Transformations
- Implementing Metadata Injection
- Creating Advanced Jobs
- Launching Transformations and Jobs from the Command Line
- Best Practices for Designing and Deploying a PDI Project
