Aplikacje biurowe
Jak wykonać skomplikowane obliczenia w arkuszu kalkulacyjnym? Jak napisać i poprawnie sformatować urzędowe pismo w edytorze tekstu albo wykonać interesującą prezentację dla szefa? Tutaj znajdziecie odpowiedź.
Podręczniki w tym dziale pozwolą poznać tajniki najbardziej popularnych aplikacji biurowych jak pakiet MS Office czy Open Office, poczty elektronicznej jak Outlook, czy zagadnień języka programowania VBA oraz w pełni wykorzystać potencjał jaki te programy oferują. Nauczycie się jak aktywnie zarządzać budżetem w MS Project, tworzyć prezentację w PowerPoint slajd po slajdzie, oraz znajdziecie tu szereg wskazówek i porad jak usprawnić Waszą pracę z programami Excel czy Word.
Jobinesh Purushothaman
Oracle ADF in combination with JDeveloper IDE offers visual and declarative approaches to enterprise application development. This book will teach you to build scalable rich enterprise applications using the ADF Framework, with the help of many real world examples.Oracle ADF is a powerful application framework for building next generation enterprise applications. The book is a practical guide for the ADF framework and discusses how to use Oracle ADF for building rich enterprise applications.Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide discusses ADF framework in detail. This book contains a lot of real life examples which will help developers to design and develop successful enterprise applications.This book starts off by introducing the development environment and JDeveloper design time features. As you read forward, you will learn to build a full stack enterprise application using ADF. You will learn how to build business services using ADF, enable validation for the data model, declaratively build user interfaces for business service and enable security across application layers.
Saurabh K. Gupta
PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language) is Oracle Corporation's procedural extension language for SQL and the Oracle relational database. Server-side PL/SQL is stored and compiled in the Oracle Database and runs within the Oracle executable. With this guide Oracle developers can work towards accomplishing Oracle 11g Advanced PL/SQL Professional certification, which is the second milestone for developers working at the Associate level. The Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Professional Guide helps you master advanced PL/SQL concepts. Besides the clear and precise explanation on advanced topics, it also contains example code and demonstrations, which gives a sense of application and usage to readers.The book gives a deep insight that will help transform readers from mid-level programmers to professional database developers. It aims to cover the advanced features of PL/SQL for designing and optimizing PL/SQL code.This book starts with an overview of PL/SQL as the programming database language and outlines the benefits and characteristics of the language. The book then covers the advanced features that include PL/SQL code writing using collections, tuning recommendations using result caching, implementing VPD to enforce row level security, and much more. Apart from programming, the book also dives deep into the usage of the development tool SQL Developer, employing best practices in database environments and safeguarding the vulnerable areas in PL/SQL code to avoid code injection.
Pete Wang
An integral component of Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) ultimately empowers business executives to react quickly to changing business situations. BAM enables business service and process monitoring through real-time data streaming and operational reports, and this book helps you to take advantage of this vital tool with best practice guidance for building a BAM project.Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook is an essential companion for advancing your BAM knowledge, with troubleshooting and performance tuning tips to guide you in building BAM applications. The book uses step-by-step instructions alongside a real world demo project to steer you through the pitfalls of report and application development. Packed with best practices, you'll learn about BAM migration, HA configuration and much more.Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook comprises a myriad of best practices for building real-time operational dashboards, reports and alerts. The book dives straight into the architecture of Oracle BAM 11g, before moving swiftly onto concepts like managing BAM server securities, populating Data Objects and performing load testing. Later on you'll also learn about BAM migration and building an ADF-based report, plus much more that you won't want to miss. For focusing in on best practices for this integral tool within Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook is the perfect guide for the job.
Tanya Williams, Mark Nelson, Nelson Morris, Tatyana...
Oracle BPM Suite is a popular and highly capable business process management system with extensive integration capabilities. BPMN, one of the most widely used process modeling notations, includes advanced capabilities for inter-process communication, working of arrays of data, and handling exceptions. However, these very same areas are often poorly understood. This book gives you the knowledge to create professional process models using these advanced features of BPMN.Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics is the only book available that provides coverage of advanced BPMN topics for Oracle BPM Suite, helping to fill in the gaps left by the product documentation, and giving you the information that you need to know to use BPMN to its full potential.This book covers the important theory behind inter-process communication, working with arrays and handling exceptions in BPMN, along with detailed, step-by-step practical exercises that demonstrate and consolidate this theoretical knowledge.Throughout the book we'll cover topics including different types of sub-processes, initializing and manipulating arrays, using the multi-instance embedded sub-process, fault propagation and more.With Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics in hand, you'll gain detailed and practical experience in using the advanced features of BPMN to create professional BPMN processes with Oracle BPM.
Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 12c is packed full of features and has a fresh approach to information presentation, system management, and security. OBIEE can help any organization to understand its data, to make useful information from data, and to ensure decision-making is supported by facts. OBIEE can focus on information that needs action, alerting users when conditions are met. OBIEE can be used for data analysis, form production, dashoarding, and workflow processes.We will introduce you to OBIEE features and provide a step-by-step guide to build a complete system from scratch. With this guide, you will be equipped with a good basic understanding of what the product contains, how to install and configure it, and how to create effective Business Intelligence. This book contains the necessary information for a beginner to create a high-performance OBIEE 12c system.This book is also a guide that explains how to use an existing OBIEE 12c system, and shows end users how to create.
Kresimir Juric
Oracle CX Cloud offers features and capabilities that help companies excel at sales, customer management, and much more. This book is a detailed guide to implementing cloud solutions and helping administrators of all levels thoroughly understand the platform.Oracle CX Cloud Suite begins with an introduction to high-level Oracle architecture and examines what CX offers over CRM. You’ll explore the different cloud-based tools for marketing, sales, and customer services, among others. The book then delves into deployment by covering basic settings, setting up users, and provisioning. You’ll see how to integrate the CX suite to work together to interact with the environment and connect with legacy systems, social connectors, and internet services. The book concludes with a use case demonstrating how the entire Oracle CX Suite is set up, and also covers how to leverage Oracle ICS and Oracle CX Cloud for hybrid deployment.By end of the book, you will have learned about the working of the Oracle CX Cloud Suite and how to orchestrate user experience across all products seamlessly.
Nassyam Basha, Emre Baransel, Yunus Emre Baransel
Data Guard is the high availability, disaster recovery and data replication solution for Oracle Databases.With the huge growth of Data Guard it's getting harder to encounter an Oracle DBA not dealing with Data Guard. Since it's a common DBA task to provide high availability of databases, Data Guard is a must-know topic for every Oracle Database Administrator.Oracle Data Guard 11g R2 Beginner's Administration Guide is a practical guide that provides all the information you will need to configure and maintain Data Guard. This book will show you what Data Guard can really do.By following the practical examples in this book, you'll learn to set up your Data Guard Broker, the management framework for Data Guard configurations. Learn and implement different data protection modes, perform role transitions between databases (switchover and failover) and configure Active Data Guard. Next, we will dive into the features of Snapshot Standby. The book progresses into looking at Data Guard configuration with other Oracle products (such as EM, RAC, and RMAN) and patch databases in Data Guard. The final chapters will cover commonly encountered Data Guard issues and Data Guard best practices, which are very important to make a Data Guard configuration perfect and take maximum advantage of Data Guard properties.
Christophe Dupupet, Peter Boyd-Bowman, Julien Testut, Denis...
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is Oracle's strategic data integration platform for high-speed data transformation and movement between different systems. From high-volume batches, to SOA-enabled data services, to trickle operations, ODI is a cutting-edge platform that offers heterogeneous connectivity, enterprise-level deployment, and strong administrative, diagnostic, and management capabilities.Oracle Data Integrator 11g Cookbook will take you on a journey past your first steps with ODI to a new level of proficiency, lifting the cover on many of the internals of the product to help you better leverage the most advanced features.The first part of this book will focus on the administrative tasks required for a successful deployment, moving on to showing you how to best leverage Knowledge Modules with explanations of their internals and focus on specific examples. Next we will look into some advanced coding techniques for interfaces, packages, models, and a focus on XML. Finally the book will lift the cover on web services as well as the ODI SDK, along with additional advanced techniques that may be unknown to many users.Throughout Oracle Data Integrator 11g Cookbook, the authors convey real-world advice and best practices learned from their extensive hands-on experience.
Andy Penver
Oracle's suite of applications is used by many major businesses and public sector organizations throughout the world. Oracle E-Business Suite is the most comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications that enable organizations to make better decisions, reduce costs, and increase performance. The book will show you how to build different types of extensions with different toolsets. It will take you from start to finish with fully working examples.This book will show readers a wide variety of step-by-step examples of how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 in a number of areas. The book focuses on OA Framework personalization and development, WebADI, and BI Publisher. It will take readers through the process of how to get started and what tools are needed. It will explain how to develop working examples and how to deploy them within Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. Learn how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12, using detailed examples to work through how various components are configured and how we can extend standard functionality. The book focuses on OA Framework personalization and development, desktop integration (formerly WebADI), and BI Publisher and each chapter will introduce the topic before going through working examples from start to finish. There are plenty of detailed illustrations throughout each chapter giving clear instructions of what we are doing and why. Each topic will develop a solution that will utilize common core components of a subject area. It focuses on starting an extension right from the beginning to deploying it within E-Business Suite. At the end of each chapter the reader will have a good understanding of what they need to do for each area to take away and start using it in practice. Each chapter will detail how to build an extension in the supported manner and also comes with complete, fully tested code and scripts that can be downloaded.
Jose R Ruiz, Jose R. Ruiz
Oracle Essbase is a Multi-Dimensional Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) server, providing a rich environment for effectively developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications. Oracle Essbase enables business users to quickly model complex business scenarios.This practical cookbook shows you the advanced development techniques when building Essbase Applications and how to take these applications further.Packed with over 90 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, this book starts by showing you how to use a relational data model to build and load an Essbase cube and how to create a data source, prepare the mini schema, and work with the data elements in Essbase Studio. The book then dives into topics such as building the BSO cube, building the ASO cube, using EAS for development, creating Calculation Scripts and using MaxL to automate processes.
Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook
Mischa Koelliker, Eric Elzinga, Mischa K?É?íÂ!?lliker, Jan...
Oracle Service Bus 11g is a scalable SOA integration platform that delivers an efficient, standards-based infrastructure for high-volume, mission critical SOA environments. It is designed to connect, mediate, and manage interactions between heterogeneous services, legacy applications, packaged solutions and multiple Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) instances across an enterprise-wide service network. Oracle Service Bus is a core component in the Oracle SOA Suite as a backbone for SOA messaging.This practical cookbook shows you how to develop service and message-oriented (integration) solutions on the Oracle Service Bus 11g.Packed with over 80 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, this book starts by showing you how to create a basic OSB service and work efficiently and effectively with OSB. The book then dives into topics such as messaging with JMS transport, using EJB and JEJB transport, HTTP transport and Poller transports, communicating with the database, communicating with SOA Suite and Reliable Message Processing amongst others. The last two chapters discuss how to achieve message and transport-level security on the OSB.
Ravi Saraswathi, Jaswant Singh
BPEL, Business Process Execution Language is the definitive standard in writing and defining actions within business processes. Oracle BPEL Process Manager R1 is Oracle's latest offering, providing you with a complete end-to-end platform for the creation, implementation, and management of your BPEL business processes that are so important to your service-oriented architecture.Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11gR1 – A Hands-on Tutorial is your guide to BPEL design and development, SOA Suite platform troubleshooting, and engineering in a detailed step-by-step guide working real-world examples and case studies. Using industry-leading practices you will start by creating your first BPEL process and move onto configuring your processes, then invoking, orchestrating, and testing them. You will then learn how to use architect and design services using BPEL, performance tuning, integration, and security, as well as high availability, troubleshooting, and modeling for the future.Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11gR1 – A Hands-on Tutorial is your complete hands-on guide to Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11g.
C2B2 Consulting Ltd, Nicholas Wright, Matt Brasier
Oracle SOA Suite 11g forms the heart of many organisations' Service Oriented Architecture. Yet for such a core component, simple information on how to tune and configure SOA Suite and its infrastructure is hard to find. Because Oracle SOA Suite 11g builds on top of a variety of infrastructure components, up until now there has been no one single complete reference that brings together all the best practices for tuning the whole SOA stack.Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook contains plenty of tips and tricks to help you get the best performance from your SOA Suite infrastructure. From monitoring your environment so you know where bottlenecks are, to tuning the Java Virtual Machine, WebLogic Application Server, and BPEL and BPMN mediator engines, this book will give you the techniques you need in a easy to follow step-by-step guide.Starting with how to identify problems, and building on that with sections on monitoring, testing, and tuning, the recipes in this book will take you through many of the options available for performance tuning your application.There are many considerations to make when trying to get the best performance out of the Oracle SOA Suite platform. This performance Cookbook will teach you the whole process of tuning JVM garbage collection and memory, tuning BPEL and BPMN persistence settings, and tuning the application server. This book focuses on bringing together tips on how to identify the key bottlenecks in the whole SOA Suite infrastructure, and how to alleviate them.The Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook will ensure that you have the tools and techniques to get the most out of your infrastructure, delivering reliable, fast, and scalable services to your enterprise.
Philip P. Brown
Oracle Solaris provides innovative, built-in features that deliver breakthrough high availability, advanced security, efficiency, and industry-leading scalability and performance to help businesses grow. Oracle Solaris 11: First Look covers the new features and functionality of Oracle Solaris 11 and how these new features and improvements will make it easier to deploy services to the enterprise while improving performance and reducing total cost of ownership.This book starts with coverage of Image Packaging System and the new installation methods. It then moves swiftly to network configuration. The book also includes some security features and improvements.
Outlook 2007 PL. Zarządzanie czasem i informacjami
Witold Wrotek
Po pierwsze i najważniejsze: oszczędzaj czas! Jak opanować chaos we własnej skrzynce pocztowej? Jak korzystać z kalendarza komputerowego i internetowego? Jak zoptymalizować Kontakty i obsłużyć RSS? Program Outlook to narzędzie, bez którego wielu z nas nie wyobraża sobie codziennego życia czy pracy. Jednak coraz większa ilość przychodzącej korespondencji e-mailowej, którą trzeba posegregować i przeczytać, a potem jeszcze odpisać na nią, sprawia, że z niechęcią myślimy o ściągnięciu poczty. Z drugiej strony, przytłoczeni nadmiarem informacji oraz szybkim tempem współczesnego życia, gubimy się natychmiast, gdy tylko zabraknie nam kalendarza z rozpiską licznych spotkań i zajęć. Na szczęście Outlook 2007 PL można wykorzystać zarówno do usprawnienia zarządzania pocztą elektroniczną, jak i przygotowania szczegółowego terminarza. Z książki "Outlook 2007 PL. Zarządzanie czasem i informacjami " dowiesz się, jak nie dać się przysypać górze wirtualnego papieru, czyli jak ustawić reguły segregacji e-maili, zaprojektować szablony wiadomości i automatyczne powiadomienia o jej odebraniu. Nauczysz się ustawiać i wykorzystywać przypomnienia o nadchodzących terminach, by nie spóźnić się już nigdy na żadne zebranie. Twój kalendarz posłuży Ci także jako świetne narzędzie do rozsyłania informacji o spotkaniu, a polecenia menu Kontakty ułatwią zautomatyzowanie tego procesu. Znajdziesz tu także informacje na temat posługiwania się kanałem RSS oraz drukowania wybranych fragmentów informacji zawartych w Outlooku. Przeglądanie wiadomości w skrzynce odbiorczej według wątków Zarządzanie wiadomościami za pomocą reguł Tworzenie szablonu wiadomości oraz bloków tekstu wielokrotnego użycia Wstawianie symbolu lub znaku specjalnego Wstawianie do wiadomości bloków tekstu wielokrotnego użycia, tabel i wykresów Nawigowanie w kalendarzu i udostępnianie go Planowanie terminu jednorazowego oraz cyklicznego Oznaczanie terminu jako prywatnego Ustawianie lub usuwanie przypomnień dla nowych lub istniejących terminów Planowanie spotkania i aktualizowanie informacji Archiwizowanie kalendarza i tworzenie dodatkowych kalendarzy Importowanie kalendarza z usługi Google Calendar i eksportowanie go Subskrybowanie kalendarza Google Calendar Trzy sposoby tworzenia i znajdowania kontaktu Tworzenie listy dystrybucyjnej i adresowanie wiadomości do tejże listy Wykonywanie kopii plików zawierających kontakty Dodawanie i usuwanie źródeł danych RSS Drukowanie strony wiadomości, jej fragmentu, nazw i adresów wysyłkowych Drukowanie listy wiadomości, kontaktów lub zadań Skróty klawiaturowe Opcje uruchamiania Outlooka 2007 Nie trać więcej czasu — dostosuj Outlook 2007 PL do siebie!
Theodore Petrou
This book will provide you with unique, idiomatic, and fun recipes for both fundamental and advanced data manipulation tasks with pandas 0.20. Some recipes focus on achieving a deeper understanding of basic principles, or comparing and contrasting two similar operations. Other recipes will dive deep into a particular dataset, uncovering new and unexpected insights along the way.The pandas library is massive, and it's common for frequent users to be unaware of many of its more impressive features. The official pandas documentation, while thorough, does not contain many useful examples of how to piece together multiple commands like one would do during an actual analysis. This book guides you, as if you were looking over the shoulder of an expert, through practical situations that you are highly likely to encounter.Many advanced recipes combine several different features across the pandas 0.20 library to generate results.
Alvin Ashcraft
.NET has included managed threading capabilities since the beginning, but early techniques had inherent risks: memory leaks, thread synchronization issues, and deadlocks. This book will help you avoid those pitfalls and leverage the modern constructs available in .NET 6 and C# 10, while providing recommendations on patterns and best practices for parallelism and concurrency. Parallel, concurrent, and asynchronous programming are part of every .NET application today, and it becomes imperative for modern developers to understand how to effectively use these techniques.This book will teach intermediate-level .NET developers how to make their applications faster and more responsive with parallel programming and concurrency in .NET and C# with practical examples. The book starts with the essentials of multi-threaded .NET development and explores how the language and framework constructs have evolved along with .NET. You will later get to grips with the different options available today in .NET 6, followed by insights into best practices, debugging, and unit testing.By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of why, when, and how to employ parallelism and concurrency in any .NET application.
PCI DSS Version 4.0.1. A guide to the payment card industry data security standard
IT Governance Publishing, Stephen Hancock
This book provides an essential resource for anyone involved in managing or ensuring PCI DSS compliance. It begins by introducing the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), explaining its importance, and the regulatory framework that governs it. Readers will understand how to assess their organization’s compliance status and the vital steps to avoid data breaches. The book offers a comprehensive exploration of compliance programs and how organizations can design their own effective strategies.The text then dives into the specifics of PCI DSS, focusing on its core components and requirements. Key chapters describe how to comply with and maintain compliance, as well as how to use tools like the PCI self-assessment questionnaire (SAQ). Real-world case studies of cardholder data breaches highlight the consequences of non-compliance. Readers will also learn about the integration of PCI DSS with other standards like ISO/IEC 27001.Throughout, this guide emphasizes practical advice for implementing key security frameworks such as the Software Security Framework (SSF) and Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE). By the end of the book, readers will have a clear roadmap to not only meet but sustain PCI DSS compliance and strengthen their organization's data security practices.
Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO, Dario R. Bernabeu
Open source reporting tools and techniques, such as PRD, have been comparable in quality to their commercial counterparts this is largely due to the market's marked tendency to choose open source solutions. PRD is a very powerful tool and in order to take full advantage of it you need to pay attention to the important details. Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide clearly explains the the foundation and then puts those concepts into practice through step-by-step visual guides. Feeling confident with your newly discovered, desirable, skill you will have the power to create your very own professional reports including graphics, formulas, sub-reports and many other forms of data reporting.Pentaho 5.0 Reporting By Example: Beginner's Guide is a step-by-step guide to create high quality, professional reports. Starting with the basics we will explore each feature to ensure a thorough understanding to peel back the curtain and take full advantage of the power that Pentaho puts at our fingertips.This book gives you the necessary resources to create a great variety of reports. You will be able to make reports that contain sub-reports, include graphics, sparklines and so on. You will also be able to parameterize your reports so that the final user can decide what information to visualize. You will be able to create your own stoplight type indicators and drill down in your reports. and execute your reports from your own web application.Pentaho 5.0 Reporting By Example: Beginner's Guide lets you learn everything necessary to work seriously with one of the world's most popular open source reporting tools. This book will guide you chapter by chapter through examples, graphics, and theoretical explanations so that you feel comfortable interacting with Pentaho Report Designer and creating your own reports.
Francesco Corti
This hands-on tutorial, filled with exercises and examples, introduces the reader to a variety of concepts within Pentaho Reporting. With screenshots that show you how reports look at design time as well as how they should look when rendered as PDF, Excel, HTML, Text, Rich-Text-File, XML, and CSV, this book also contains complete example source code that you can copy and paste into your environment to get up-and-running quickly. Updated to cover the features of Pentaho 8, this book will teach you everything you need to know to build fast, efficient reports using Pentaho. If your interest lies in the technical details of creating reports and you want to see how to solve common reporting problems with a minimum of fuss, this is the book for you.
Joel Latino, Harris Ward, Joel André Latino,...
MongoDB is an open source, schemaless NoSQL database system. Pentaho as a famous open source Analysis tool provides high performance, high availability, and easy scalability for large sets of data. The variant features in Pentaho for MongoDB are designed to empower organizations to be more agile and scalable and also enables applications to have better flexibility, faster performance, and lower costs.Whether you are brand new to online learning or a seasoned expert, this book will provide you with the skills you need to create turnkey analytic solutions that deliver insight and drive value for your organization.The book will begin by taking you through Pentaho Data Integration and how it works with MongoDB. You will then be taken through the Kettle Thin JDBC Driver for enabling a Java application to interact with a database. This will be followed by exploration of a MongoDB collection using Pentaho Instant view and creating reports with MongoDB as a datasource using Pentaho Report Designer. The book will then teach you how to explore and visualize your data in Pentaho BI Server using Pentaho Analyzer. You will then learn how to create advanced dashboards with your data. The book concludes by highlighting contributions of the Pentaho Community.
Adrian Sergio Pulvirenti, María Carina Roldán, Alex...
Pentaho Data Integration is the premier open source ETL tool, providing easy, fast, and effective ways to move and transform data. While PDI is relatively easy to pick up, it can take time to learn the best practices so you can design your transformations to process data faster and more efficiently. If you are looking for clear and practical recipes that will advance your skills in Kettle, then this is the book for you.Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition guides you through the features of explains the Kettle features in detail and provides easy to follow recipes on file management and databases that can throw a curve ball to even the most experienced developers.Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition provides updates to the material covered in the first edition as well as new recipes that show you how to use some of the key features of PDI that have been released since the publication of the first edition. You will learn how to work with various data sources – from relational and NoSQL databases, flat files, XML files, and more. The book will also cover best practices that you can take advantage of immediately within your own solutions, like building reusable code, data quality, and plugins that can add even more functionality.Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition will provide you with the recipes that cover the common pitfalls that even seasoned developers can find themselves facing. You will also learn how to use various data sources in Kettle as well as advanced features.
Pentaho Data Integration Quick Start Guide. Create ETL processes using Pentaho
María Carina Roldán
Pentaho Data Integration(PDI) is an intuitive and graphical environment packed with drag and drop design and powerful Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) capabilities. Given its power and flexibility, initial attempts to use the Pentaho Data Integration tool can be difficult or confusing. This book is the ideal solution.This book reduces your learning curve with PDI. It provides the guidance needed to make you productive, covering the main features of Pentaho Data Integration. It demonstrates the interactive features of the graphical designer, and takes you through the main ETL capabilities that the tool offers.By the end of the book, you will be able to use PDI for extracting, transforming, and loading the types of data you encounter on a daily basis.