Getting started with pentaho

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This section provides an overview of what pentaho is, and why a developer might want to use it.

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Installation or Setup of Pentaho Data Integration

Pentaho Data Integration comes in two varieties:

Community Edition (CE) - Free version for developers
Enterprise Edition (EE) - Paid version for enterprise use

Installation steps:

You can download Pentaho Data Integration Community Edition from Sourceforge.net.

For the Enterprise Edition : Download a 30-Day Trial
Prerequisites -

PDI V7 requires the Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 8.

PDI does not require installation. Simply unpack the zip file into a folder of your choice.

On Unix-like operating systems, you may need to make the shell scripts executable by using the chmod command:

   cd data-integration
   chmod +x *.sh

Running: PDI comes with a graphical user interface called Spoon_,_ command-line scripts (Kitchen, Pan) to execute transformations and jobs, and other utilities.