Monthly Archives: January 2010

etl expands into SMB market

I just had a chance to read Rick Sherman’s latest blog on important trends in data integration for 2010 and what stuck out to me was trend 5 which asserts that ETL is expanding into the SMB market. In my view, Rick is completely right that this expansion is taking place. I am witnessing it [...]

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insight series: creating drawings with expressor illustrator

expressor illustrator is a graphical interface based on Microsoft Visio that application developers use to creating data-flow diagrams, called “drawings” in expressor.  expressor illustrator drawings are comprised of expressor processor image, network and channel descriptions, and connectors (called “motors” in expressor) and operators.                                         expressor illustrator — Microsoft Visio based application used by ETL developers [...]

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scripting made easy with expressor datascript

Just published a new educational video on expressor’s powerful datascript scripting language. You can view it here.

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expressor at SQLSaturday Tampa

There is a growing phenomenon within the Microsoft user community with events known as  SQLSaturdays.  These are all day meetings held on Saturdays (hence the name!) hosted by local SQL Server user groups.  expressor just returned from the Tampa SQLSaturday event, where we were a Platinum sponsor. It was a terrific day with over 400 [...]

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is expressor complementary to SSIS?

Last week we had a briefing with a well-known and highly respected Microsoft SQL Server MVP, whom I won’t mention by name as I haven’t asked him for permission to do so. The main goal of our meeting was to discuss our product in detail and to find out if our value proposition will resonate [...]

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Merv Adrian on expressor eval edition

Register at http://www.expressor-software.com/eval-edition.htm.

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Insight series: expressor projects

This is the second in a series of mini-tutorials (click here to go to previous tutorial) designed to provide insight into expressor’s features and capabilities. In this particular blog, I’ll explain some of the basics of an expressor project, which is the foundation for building an expressor data integration application. Each project is composed of: [...]

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expressor posts strong Q4 2009

expressor just announced it closed 2009 with a strong Q4 – which included four new customers, the introduction of its new “expressor expressway” methodology and aggressive expansion into the small-to-medium business (SMB) market served by Microsoft SQL Server. expressor signed new licensing transactions in Q4 with Baseline Management, Integrated DNA, STi Prepaid and a major [...]

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Insight series: expressor parallel processing

This is the first in a series of mini-tutorials designed to provide additional insight into specific technical features and capabilities of the expressor semantic data integration system.  We’re starting with an examination of our implementation of parallel processing. expressor uses three compatible and combinatorial techniques for parallel processing to provide high scalability while maintaining high [...]

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expressor initiator demo

Check out our expressor educational videos including our expressor initiator demo.  Additional videos are available at http://www.expressor-software.com/expressor-educational-videos.htm. Michael Waclawiczek VP, Marketing

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