Pentaho Community Data Access (CDA)

Pedro Alves did some impressive work on the new CDA (Community Data Access):CDA allows you to access any of the various Pentaho data sources without worrying about the details. It can be used as a standalone plugin on the Pentaho BI server that can output the result in several formats or it can be used in combination with the Dashboard Editor and the CDF.It basically covers any source that you can use within PRD (Pentaho Report Designer). Additionally it has a security layer that prevents code injection.Moreover it has a caching layer (only Mondrian...

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Review coming for "Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide"

I am quite excited to let you know that Packt will kindly send me a copy of their new book "Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide" (by María Carina Roldán) to review it. I should have it in my post box in the next few days and then I'll focus on it. So stay tun...

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New books on Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle)

Good news for everybody who wants to get started with Pentaho Data Integration: 2 books are in the pipeline.The first one "Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide" by María Carina Roldán will be published in the next few days. I'll try to get a copy of it. The TOC promises a quite interesting book!Later this year "Pentaho Kettle Solutions" will be available. This books will be based on the forthcoming PDI 4. It's written by the same team (Roland Bouman, Jos van Dongen) that brought you the excellent "Pentaho Solutions"....

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