Summary

In this chapter, you were introduced to PDI jobs, which, along with transformations, constitute the main artifacts of PDI.

First, you learned the purpose of jobs, and how they differ from PDI transformations. Through using Spoon, you learned how to design and run jobs. Then, through a series of tutorials, you worked with files, sent emails, generated logs, and more. Also, you learned how to combine the execution of jobs and transformations in different ways. Finally, you explored the Kitchen utility, used for running jobs from the command line.

This was the last chapter of this Pentaho Data Integration Quick Start Guide. Having read all of these pages, I hope that you feel familiar with the tool and are now confident enough to create your first projects and eager to learn more about PDI.