Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide [Paperback]

María Carina Roldán (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1847199542 | ISBN-13: 978-1847199546 | Publication Date: April 9, 2010

As part of Packt's Beginner's Guide, this book focuses on teaching by example. The book walks you through every aspect of PDI, giving step-by-step instructions in a friendly style, allowing you to learn in front of your computer, playing with the tool. The extensive use of drawings and screenshots make the process of learning PDI easy. Throughout the book numerous tips and helpful hints are provided that you will not find anywhere else.The book provides short, practical examples and also builds from scratch a small datamart intended to reinforce the learned concepts and to teach you the basics of data warehousing. This book is for software developers, database administrators, IT students, and everyone involved or interested in developing ETL solutions, or, more generally, doing any kind of data manipulation. If you have never used PDI before, this will be a perfect book to start with.You will find this book is a good starting point if you are a database administrator, data warehouse designer, architect, or any person who is responsible for data warehouse projects and need to load data into them. You don't need to have any prior data warehouse or database experience to read this book. Fundamental database and data warehouse technical terms and concepts are explained in easy-to-understand language.

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About the Author

María Carina Roldan

María Carina was born in a small town in the Patagonia region. She earned her Bachelor degree in Computer Science at UNLP in La Plata and then moved to Buenos Aires (Argentina) where she has lived since 1994.

She has worked as a BI consultant for the last ten years. Over the last three, she has been dedicated full time to developing BI solutions using the Pentaho Suite. She is also an active contributor to the Pentaho community.

Product Details

• Paperback: 492 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 9, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847199542
• ISBN-13: 978-1847199546
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #221,955 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, May 27, 2010

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Bruno Povoa Leal (Goiânia, GO Brasil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide (Paperback)

Excelent book, truly recommended to them who are newbies or not! Written in step-by-step style it becomes easy to read. Even the experient analysts can benefit with this source.
I can say that is essential to have this book in hand when working with PDI.
As a good Brazilian i could not forget to comment about the examples using soccer matches, it would be best to use data from 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 or 2002, but that's all right it doesn't compromises the quality of the work. ;-)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, suitable for many audiences, could even make you a hero..., May 7, 2010

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James Dixon - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide (Paperback)

The book was written by María Carina Roldán, a valued member of the PDI community. She does a great job of fulfilling the promise of the book's title - it is a great introduction and 'getting started' book for Pentaho Data Integration. I have worked with PDI for the last few years, so I'm hardly a beginner, but I still learned useful techniques and tips from the book.

The book starts with basic information about the tool and installation instructions, then, chapter by chapter, it introduces features and techniques that build upon each other. By the end of the book you'll know how to perform all the standard ETL operations using Pentaho Data Integration and then some. There are tutorials and exercises throughout the book that really you understand the tool and its features.

If your organization uses Informatica, Ab Initio, IBM/Ascential Data Stage, Business Objects Data Integrator, or Cognos Decision Stream, this $45 book could lead to savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars with Pentaho Data Integration, and make you a hero in the process. If your organization can't afford those products, this $45 book could lead to solutions at a fraction of their cost, and make you a hero in the process.

Almost everything in the book applies just as well to PDI V4.0 as it does to V3.2

Disclosure: I was one of the reviewers of the book during its writing so I might be a little biased - but I was not paid for that effort, nor am I being paid to review the finished book. My opinion of it is the same either way. Great book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential tool, April 16, 2010

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Benaglia Nicola (Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide (Paperback)

Pentaho Data Integration (a.k.a. Kettle) is a great opensource ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) tool with a big community around it.
I started using PDI in 2006 and since then I really appreciated its usefulness and vast opportunities of use.
Data are everywhere and in different sources (excel sheets, database, text file, web services and so on) and there are a lot of needs for them
to be integrated, analyzed, modified and reused.
In my opinion an ETL tool is essential for everyone who works with data.
This guide will help you learning how to use PDI and how to appreciate its power.
It will give you a complete overview of the ETL world and PDI and will give you very strong basis to operate with
great satisfaction, providing you a lot of useful and practical examples.
I think that time spent to learn PDI is a time spent well.