As the television and cinema industries accelerate their progression towards Ultra HD (4K), Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) today announced it is launching a dedicated demonstration Ultra HD channel for Europe on the EUTELSAT 10A satellite.

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Lee, President and CEO of ETL Associates, Inc. took some time out of his hectic schedule to speak to Forbes.com about his prior Combine experiences and what he has planned for his 9th year attending the event in Indianapolis.

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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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The Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL) process that cleans up the data and ensures data integrity, the data warehouse that acts as a scalable and reliable repository for data derived from many sources, and some form of search acceleration for large data volumes are all still needed, and an enlightened IT group is needed to install and maintain them.

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