Monthly Archives: April 2010

customer opinion: expressor replaces SSIS

On the question, whether expressor is complementary or a replacement for SSIS, Scott Morgan, Principal at Morgan and Associates Computer Consulting LLC, said on our expressor LinkedIn group that expressor is a SSIS replacement. He cited various reasons why Moffitt Cancer Center — our customer — chose to use expressor as their ETL tool at [...]

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expressor vs SSIS: overcoming two major SSIS bottlenecks

I’d like to use this blog entry to discuss some significant SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) bottlenecks and how expressor breaks through them. SSIS prospects often ask us if expressor supports sub-sorts and sorted aggregations, avoiding the need to see all data before releasing some of the data for downstream operations and the inherent “pipeline [...]

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SQLSaturday New York City

expressor software exhibited at the SQLSaturday event in New York City on April 24 and will be co-sponsoring the SQLSaturday event in Dallas on May 22.

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See us at SQLSaturday events on April 24, 2010

We will be co-sponsoring the New York City and Atlanta SQLSaturday events this Saturday, April 24. Stop by and meet our team. Michael Waclawiczek, VP Marketing

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solution providers are the key to ETL Success

From day one we realized that having a strong implementation partner ecosystem is the most critical success factor after product differentiation for expressor software.  The boutique data warehousing and business intelligence shops were the first to embrace expressor.  In particular, Acxius Strategic Consulting has been very active with our company and has trained most of [...]

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april 2010 – a very busy month for expressor

So far this is the busiest month for expressor this year. Last week we exhibited at the Gartner BI Summit 2010, where we announced expressor 2.2 and several strategic technology, reseller and SI partnerships, and co-sponsored the SQLSaturday event in Chicago, which turned out to be a great event for us. We will present and [...]

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expressor announces version 2.2 of semantic data integration system

We are gearing up for the release of expressor 2.2 at the end of April 2010.  This latest release features enhanced semantic rationalization and team development capabilities, additional database connectivity and expanded Microsoft platform support.  Many of these features also help lay the groundwork for the game-changing usability we will deliver in version 3.0 of [...]

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why expressor’s data mapping approach is different?

In my last blog, I wrote about the state of the traditional data integration market.   In today’s blog, I’d like to discuss why expressor’s approach to data mapping is different from traditional ETL/DI tools and what the benefits of our approach are. In expressor’s unique semantic rationalization approach, a data steward “maps” the external (technical) [...]

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state of the traditional data integration market

This blog outlines the current state of the data integration market in terms of what methods and tools are being used.

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complex transformations can get very tricky in SSIS

We are conducting a running survey with SSIS users who visit our site or visit our exhibitor stand at one of the SQLSaturday events. The current results of two of our survey questions are shown here, which indicate a trend we’ve heard from various expressor prospects and customers in the past. The general feedback based on dozens of responses [...]

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