Monthly Archives: December 2009

expressor: 2009 top 10 premium content links

This has been a very exciting year for all of us here at expressor and we are looking forward to a great 2010 with lots of exciting things to write and talk about.  I will end this year with my top ten premium content links which you’ll hopefully enjoy as well: top 10 for expressor [...]

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semantic rationalization blog series: part 5 – reusability and ease of use

In my last blog, I discussed the benefits of our abstraction layer. In this final blog in the series, I’ll wrap things up with a discussion of reusability and ease of use. As you might imagine, our new paradigm for viewing data involves a number of new concepts that bear careful explanation. Issues such as [...]

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expressor makes scripting easy

I just got back from doing a proof of concept (POC) for one of the world’s largest resort conglomerates. They had some very interesting problems, which no other data integration vendor had solved in previous POCs, so they had to fix them with custom SQL, C, C++, and KSH scripts. enter expressor datascript For those [...]

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Unix as a platform for DI is fading quickly

I am spending significant time and effort right now talking to our customers, partners, and prospects about their computing needs for 2010 and beyond. One of the questions I ask them in my surveys is how important Unix is for running their data integration applications. And what I am hearing loud and clear is that [...]

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expressor newsletter – dec 2009 edition

Read up on the latest corporate and product news from expressor.   Click here to read more. Michael Waclawiczek VP, Marketing

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expressor evaluation edition – join our growing community of expressor users

It’s been three months since we launched our 30-day hosted eval edition program — with great success.  Since the launch, we’ve had more than 100 eval edition registrations, released updated eval edition documentation, added a number of new educational videos and are planning to introduce a weekly introductory training webinar in the coming weeks.  To find out more [...]

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semantic rationalization blog series: part 2 – business rules and the Semantic Web

In my previous blog on semantic rationalization, I introduced you to our semantic rationalization concepts, our goals to make data integration more affordable and easier to use, and I drew an analogy between pipeline processing and collaborative development.   I also highlighted the fact that the ETL developer often tends to be the bottleneck on an [...]

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what’s so magic about Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant update?

Gartner recently updated their Magic Quadrant (MQ) for data integration tools and with the exception of one new vendor, who was included based on their free download open source business practices, little has changed, including the top right-hand quadrant. As you would expect, the MQ leadership quadrant continues to be controlled by Informatica and IBM [...]

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