Monthly Archives: June 2010

What is semantic integration and what makes it different?

Lately I’ve been asked frequently ‘what is semantic integration and what makes it different’?   While I can usually quickly explain the differences and advantages to someone who has previously done large scale data integration, it can be somewhat of a challenge to explain the advantages of this approach to others.  The difficulty seems to stem [...]

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expressor / Teradata mid-market business partnership

Back in April we announced our partnership with Teradata around affordable, enterprise-class data integration and data warehousing solutions for mid-market businesses.  Our relationship with Teradata is very complementary and offers customers a great value with a high-performing data warehousing and data integration solution at a low total cost of ownership that is just right for [...]

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expressor Intelligent Load & Go for Netezza

expressor’s senior director of product management Michael Ruland made a featured presentation at the Netezza Enzee Universe 2010 User Conference on expressor’s “intelligent load & go” solution for Netezza. “Intelligent load & go” combines the affordable expressor semantic data integration system with Netezza’s high-performance data warehouse appliance to remove the cost barrier to high-performance ETL [...]

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ETL industry veteran heads up product management

At the time we established expressor in mid 2007, we decided to assemble the very best data integration professionals in the industry. One of those individuals was Michael Ruland, who came to us from IBM. Michael had worked in the ETL/data integration space since its inception and served as a global technical architect in IBM’s [...]

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expressor enhances low-latency data processing performance

expressor 2.3 includes new “data windowing” functionality that provides developers with fine-grained, real-time control of data as it flows through the high-performance parallel data processing engine. Learn more.

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expressor adds new low-latency and enhanced Netezza support

On Monday of next week, expressor will be publically announcing the availability of expressor 2.3 at the end of June. expressor 2.3 is the latest version of our semantic data integration system and constitutes another major milestone for us in completing some very important work around optimizing our engine for low-latency data processing. With expressor [...]

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why expressor is the better choice than Informatica for HCI

I am not surprised to see Informatica begin to target the Healthcare market by launching a dedicated Healthcare practice.  Their recent announcement actually validates our go-to-market focus around Healthcare Informatics, which we launched last year and where we are seeing a fast growing demand for affordable, enterprise-class data integration software.  We recently blogged about expressor’s [...]

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June 17 webinar: ten reasons why SSIS users choose expressor

expressor software and Novedea invite you to attend a webinar designed to help SSIS users understand how the expressor semantic data integration system can improve the capabilities and performance of their data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) applications. This event is scheduled for Thursday, June 17th at 12:00 Noon EDT. Novedea is a Microsoft Gold-certified partner [...]

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data integration – beyond the trough of disillusionment

A hype cycle is a graphic representation of the maturity, adoption and business application of specific technologies. The term was coined by Gartner and below is a graphical view of it: 2010 is the year of the cloud and we are clearly at the peak of inflated expectations.  So I was rather surprised to see [...]

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