Expose your Pentaho Kettle transformation as a web service

Did you know that you can expose your Kettle transformation quite easily as a web service? I will quickly walk you through the setup based on a very simple example:Imagine we are a UK store selling second hand lenses. We store our inventory in a database, prices are in GBP, we want to convert them to USD as well as we have some customers in the US. Furthermore, we want to give the calling app the possibility to retrieve a list from our inventory...

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Pentaho BI-Server 5.0 Community Edition Released

This morning I heard about some exciting news: Pentaho 5.0 CE will be released this Wednesday. I've already been playing around with the development build some weeks ago. The first big difference that you will notice in this release is the new clean web interface, which from my point of view looks a whole lot better than the previous one:Pentaho User Console and the Admin Console are now finally combined ... no need any more to fire up an extra...

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Talend Open Studio For Master Data Management: A Practical Starter Guide 2nd Edition

After several long nights and weekends I finally managed to finish my work on the 2nd edition of the practical starter guide for Talend MDM (open source version). My main aim was to update the existing content so that everything works nicely with the recently released Talend MDM version 5.4 and to improve the structure of the content. I also added two new tutorials to demonstrate the usage of the tMDMTrigger* components.I'd like to hear your feedback on this small book, so let me know what you think.You can view/download this small book he...

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