Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide - Softcover

María Carina Roldán

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847199542 ISBN 13: 9781847199546

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

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

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847199542
• ISBN 13: 9781847199546
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 492