Rama's Free Thoughts

Some days ago I had the opportunity to look at this video course, Building a Data Mart with Pentaho Data Integration from Packt, same editor I'm working for in other Pentaho books.
I was really interested in evaluating it, firstly because the author, Diethard Steiner, is a valid community member and author of a great number of useful articles on his own blog. Secondly because it seemed me a good introduction about how to approach...

It's a lot of time I'm playing with the new Pentaho BA Server 5.0 to see the what's next and now, I think, it is the right time to start talking about it. The first thing that appears is that Pentaho made a big refactoring for this release. A lot of...

Today is a great day for me and I'm very proud about this. It is the realization of a dream I had from a long time: have the possibility to write a technical book.
In February 2013, a guy from Packt Publishing wrote me an email saying that he read at my blog, he liked it and so he decided to ask me about writing a book about Pentaho Data Integration. The book is about kitchen and how to use the PDI's command line...

These days I'm involved in a project where we need to print reports directly from our PDI processes. So what a good option to use the PRD output step to do that? The idea was to find out a way for not writing the JDBC connection informations in the definition...