Pulvirenti - Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook

Adrin Sergio Pulvirenti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1972. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences at UBA, one of the most prestigious universities in South America.

He has dedicated more than 15 years to developing desktop and web-based software solutions. Over the last few years he has been leading integration projects and development of BI solutions.

I'd like to thank my lovely kids Camila and Nicolas, who understood that I couldn't share with them the usual videogame sessions during the writing process. I'd also thank my wife who introduced me to the Pentaho world.

Mara Carina Roldn was born in Esquel, Argentina, in 1970. She earned her Bachelors degree in Computer Science at UNLP in La Plata; after that she did a postgraduate course in Statistics at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in Buenos Aires city where she lives since 1994.

She has worked as a BI consultant for more than 10 years. Over the last four years, she has been dedicated full time to developing BI solutions using Pentaho Suite. Currently she works for Webdetails, one of the main Pentaho contributors.

She is the author of Pentaho3.2DataIntegration:Beginner'sGuide published by PacktPublishing in April 2010.

You can follow her on Twitter at @mariacroldan.

I'd like to thank those who have encouraged me to write this book: On one hand, the Pentaho community. They have given me a rewarding feedback after the Beginner's book. On the other side, my husband who without hesitation agreed to write the book with me. Without them I'm not sure I would have embarked on a new book project.

I'd also like to thank the technical reviewers for the time and dedication that they have put in reviewing the book. In particular, thanks to my colleagues at Webdetails; it's a pleasure and a privilege to work with them every day.

Jan Aertsen has worked in IT and decision support for the past 10 years. Since the beginning of his career he has specialized in data warehouse design and business intelligence projects. He has worked on numerous global data warehouse projects within the fashion industry, retail, banking and insurance, telco and utilities, logistics, automotive, and public sector.

Jan holds the degree of Commercial Engineer in international business affairs from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and extended his further knowledge in the field of business intelligence through a Masters in Artificial Intelligence.

In 1999 Jan started up the business intelligence activities at IOcore together with some of his colleagues, rapidly making this the most important revenue area of the Belgian affiliate. They quickly gained access to a range of customers as KPN Belgium, Orange (now Base), Mobistar, and other Belgian Telcos.

After this experience Jan joined Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in Italy and rapidly became one of their top BI project managers. After having managed some large BI projects (up to 1 million projects) Jan decided to leave the company and pursue his own ambitions.

In 2002, he founded kJube as an independent platform to develop his ambitions in the world of business intelligence. Since then this has resulted in collaborations with numerous companies as Volvo, Fendi-LVMH, ING, MSC, Securex, SDWorx, Blinck, and Beate Uhse.

Over the years Jan has worked his way through every possible aspect of business intelligence from KPI and strategy definition over budgeting, tool selection, and software investments acquisition to project management and all implementation aspects with most of the available tools. He knows the business side as well as the IT side of the business intelligence, and therefore is one of the rare persons that are able to give you a sound, all-round, vendor-independent advice on business intelligence.

He continues to share his experiences in the field through his blog (>.

Pedro Alves , is the founder of Webdetails. A Physicist by formation, serious video gamer, volleyball player, open source passionate, and dad of two lovely children.

Since his early professional years he has been responsible for Business Software development and his career led him to work as a Consultant in several Portuguese companies.

In 2008 he decided it was time to get his accumulated experience and share his knowledge about the Pentaho Business Intelligence platform on his own. He founded Webdetails and joined the Mozilla metrics team. Now he leads an international team of BI Consultants and keeps nurturing Webdetails as a world reference Pentaho BI solutions provider and community contributor. He is the Ctools (CDF, CDA, CDE, CBF, CST, CCC) architect and, on a daily basis, keeps developing and improving new components and features to extend and maximize Pentaho's capabilities.

Slawomir Chodnicki specializes in data warehousing and ETL, with a background in web development using various programming languages and frameworks. He has established his blog at http://type-exit.org to help fellow BI developers embrace the possibilities of PDI and other open source BI tools.

I would like to thank all regular members of the ##pentaho IRC channel for their endless patience and support regarding PDI related questions. Very special thanks go to Mara Carina and Adrin Sergio for creating the Kettle Cookbook and inviting me to be part of the project.

Paula Clemente was born in Sintra, Portugal, in 1983. Divided between the idea of spending her life caring about people and animals or spending quality time with computers, she started studying Computer Science at IST Engineering College"the Portuguese MIT"at a time where Internet Social Networking was a synonym of IRC. She graduated in 2008 after completing her Master thesis on Business Processes Management. Since then she is proudly working as a BI Consultant for Webdetails, a Portuguese company specialized in delivering Pentaho BI solutions that earned the Pentaho "Best Community Contributor 2011" award.