Spoon is the PDI design tool. In this section you will set up Spoon, take a tour of the Spoon interface, and learn about the different Spoon perspectives.
- Check out the hardware and software requirements. for PDI.
- Download Trial version of the Pentaho Suite and install the software. (The platform includes PDI.)
- Learn how to install PDI only. See the Install Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics document for details.
- Configure the Pentaho Server. See the Install Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics document for details.
- Start the Pentaho Server. See the Install Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics document for details.
- Access the PDI client. See the Pentaho Data Integration document for details.
- Tour the PDI client perspective interfaces. See the Pentaho Data Integration document for details.
- Read about terminology and basic concepts in the Pentaho Data Integration document.