Monthly Archives: July 2010

Who is expressor’s competition in data integration?

This is an important question which I’d like to address in this blog.  As some of you may already know expressor is primarily targeting medium size SMBs and departmental projects in Global 2000 enterprises. Important sectors in this market are Microsoft-centric SQL Server accounts that are using Microsoft SSIS for standard ETL tasks.  expressor commonly [...]

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Bob Potter on our expressor Studio 3.0 pre-release program

Mike Ruland, expressor’s director of product management, recently blogged on expressor Studio 3.0 Pre-release 2.  Now find out what CEO Bob Potter has to say about this latest Pre-release and why he believes that expressor Studio 3.0 will become a game changer in the data integration industry.  Watch our space …

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When is Open Source not really open?

The free software movement was launched in 1983 and advocated that software ought to be free, i.e. no charge, and developers ought to be liberated to make changes, modifications, improvements, etc without obligation to any other contributor, including the originators of the software.  The notion of copyright protection has no place in this brave new [...]

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expressor Studio 3.0 Pre-Release 2 released

expressor software has just released the second pre-release of expressor Studio 3.0. Studio 3.0 features a completely reworked Windows desktop application that is based on a state-of-the-art .Net UI framework. Pre-release 2 is a downloadable product and can be installed in minutes. It offers significant new usability improvements and major new functionality specifically around our [...]

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getting data governance right!

Data governance is like the weather. Everybody talks about it, but not many do anything about it. A recent IBM study concluded that less than 10% of the companies surveyed had a formal process for data governance — despite increasing external mandates and increasing internal pressure to make better business decisions in less time. expressor [...]

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join expressor on LinkedIn

I’d like to invite ETL / data integration consultants and practitioners as well as expressor users and partners to join us on LinkedIn.  Please sign in here to become a member of this group. Michael Waclawiczek, VP Marketing

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What Healthcare Informatics (HCI) projects need?

[expressor LinkedIn Group comment on recent HCI blog] Healthcare Informatics projects require complex semantic rationalization, transformation, and integration of data because of incompatible industry standards and custom/proprietary provider and administrator data formats. Blending healthcare administrative and clinical data is like trying to mix oil and water. And the quality of the data often creates additional [...]

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What is semantic integration and what makes it different (Part 2)?

Consider a couple of interesting semantic integration use cases that I have worked with expressor customers on recently.  First is the example provided in one of our webinars with American Tower, where one of the attributes of their towers was called the same name but represented differently in 2 separate systems (similar to where we need [...]

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