Tag Archives: affordable etl

expressor Studio vs free open source ETL

Until now, free open source data integration tools were a hot item in community-driven data management application development. They have become an alternative to traditional, commercial ETL and hand-coding/custom-coding solutions. As we have pointed out in previous blogs, advanced ETL tools packages from IBM, Informatica or Ab Initio are designed to handle high performance and [...]

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expressor / Teradata fast load benchmark results

With expressor 2.4, we recently introduced support for Teradata® Parallel Transporter (TPT) utilities and performed a brief benchmark to demonstrate the high performance characteristics of expressor’s new Teradata PT Load interface. Using just a single disk and a direct network connection to a Teradata 2580 appliance, our product was able to demonstrate load speeds in [...]

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ETL open source software pricing vs expressor

In my last blog on ETL vendor software pricing I compared expressor‘s product and product-related services pricing to that of its competition, including Informatica and DataStage. Today, I’d like to compare commercial open source pricing with expressor. There remains to be a misperception in the marketplace that open source vendors like Talend provide free ETL [...]

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expressor vs Informatica / DataStage pricing

We are often asked how expressor’s pricing compares with that of Informatica or IBM InfoSphere DataStage.  So let me take this opportunity and use a practical example for how a sales person of one of these two companies might quote you for an application that includes licenses for your development, QA & test, and production [...]

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SQLSaturday #35 in Dallas – May 22, 2010

expressor and our SI partner Novedea are co-sponsoring the 2010 SQLSaturday event in Dallas on May 22, 2010. Please stop by at our booth. Michael Waclawiczek VP, Marketing

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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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lower your etl software licensing and maintenance costs

Compare expressor’s usage based pricing with one of the enterprise licensing models used by most of today’s high-end DI vendors, and you’ll find that our software licensing and maintenance costs tend to be 60-80% less than what others charge. Here’s a real-life scenario. A public company is building a new data warehouse to feed a [...]

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