Explore, modify, validate, and integrate your data with ease Get started with Pentaho Data Integration from the beginning. Enrich your data transformation operation to embed Java and JavaScript code in the transformation of PDI. This book is filled with practical examples that will help you to take advantage of Pentaho Data Integration graphical environment, the design of drag-and-drop. You will soon start with Pentaho Data Integration by following the guide step-by-step in this book. Useful tips in this book will encourage you to take advantage of the advanced features of Pentaho Data Integration and ETL operations with ease. Not only that, you will be given an introduction to the concept of data warehouse and you will learn to load the data in the data warehouse. What you will learn from this book Install Penataho Data Integration and familiar with graphic designers - Spoon Working with files to get data from a simple input sources, preview, and send it back in one common output format transformation Perform basic operations on data such as performing calculations , add the constants, calculating, filtering, ordering, and data search Solve real-world problems by manipulating the data stream by combining or separating the advanced troubleshooting such as normalization of data from the tables turned with ease PDI Explore various options to validate data and handle errors Connecting to the database engine of your choice to get and keep the information coming from any source Perform advanced operations with databases such as loading a data warehouse dimensional definition of advanced processes such as job nesting, iteration on the job and transformation, and subtransformations create Implementing business processes with task scheduling, checking the condition, organizing files and folders, send an email with a warning, and treat errors in a way that meets your requirements Approach As part of Packt's Beginner's Guide, this book focuses on teaching by example. This book provides short, practical examples and also build from scratch a small datamart intended to reinforce concepts learned and to teach you the basics of data warehousing. Who is this book written for This book is for software developers, database administrators, IT students, and all the people involved or interested in developing ETL solutions, or, more generally, do all kinds of data manipulation. You will find this book a good starting point if you are a database administrator, data warehouse designers, architects, or the person responsible for data warehouse project and the need to load data into them. You do not need to have prior experience or data warehouse database to read this book.