Data integration processes (often called ETL when building a data warehouse or data prep when an analyst is massaging data) can take place in Pentaho so that the massive work of massaging and cleaning data does not have to be tightly bound to a specific data warehouse technology or to complicated programming methods.

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In police work, the county already has a sophisticated crime data warehouse it developed with IBM, said Petisco, and the IT group is building an analytical model and working on predictive analytics both for crime and for transportation.

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