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Implementing a project concept would significantly enhance Pentaho Data Integration's usability and enterprise-level data management capabilities. Customers can:
Perform design time activities in a shared manner
Work with their favorite source control
Use templated designs to ‘fall into the pit of success’
Deploy pipelines in a simpler manner (to any location - on-prem or cloud): Encapsulation of state provides portability. In addition, Projects can be packaged and shipped for remote execution - enabling simpler execution across Carte clusters (or any other deployment model)