Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide: Second Edition

María Carina Roldán

Oct 2013 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

This book focuses on teaching you by example. The book walks you through every aspect of Pentaho Data Integration, giving systematic 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 Pentaho Data Integration easy. Throughout the book, numerous tips and helpful hints are provided that you will not find anywhere else.This book is a must-have 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. Those who have never used Pentaho Data Integration will benefit most from the book, but those who have, they will also find it useful.This book is also a good starting point for database administrators, data warehouse designers, architects, or anyone who is responsible for data warehouse projects and needs to load data into them.

About the author

María Carina, born in Esquel, Argentina, earned her Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at UNLP in La Plata and then moved to Buenos Aires where she has lived since 1994. She has worked as a BI consultant for almost 15 years. She started working with Pentaho technology back in 2006. Over the last three and a half years, she has been devoted to working full time for Webdetails - a company acquired by Pentaho in 2013 - as an ETL specialist. Carina is the author of Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration Beginner’s Book, published by Packt Publishing in April 2009, and coauthor of Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook, also published by Packt Publishing in June 2011.