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Kettle Provided for Custom Converter Development
CA RCM includes the kettle Pentaho data integration tool to enable you to extract data from one data store and import it into CA RCM. CA evaluated several open source tools and selected kettle for the following reasons:
- It requires minimum programming skills: SQL and basic JavaScript (or Java).
- It is well optimized for performance. It runs twice as fast compared to some custom connectors, and the code you develop is significantly smaller than some custom connectors written purely in Java.
- It is easy to maintain and you can easily customize it to your specific needs.
- It takes a few minutes to write some converter code and understand how it works.
- It is a mature product that has been in the market for over seven years.
- It has an active developers community that provides free support using their online forum. See: http://forums.pentaho.org/forumdisplay.php?f=135.
We recommend that you use kettle when you import data from endpoints that CA RCM does not natively support, or when you need a customization that is not available though the native connector.
You can use Kettle only for imports, not for exports.
You can learn more about kettle at:
