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Darwin’s ETL: A Data Integration Puzzle for You

Hi! I’m Darwin, an 8-year old chocolate Labrador. I’m a self proclaimed ETL (Eating, Tail-wagging, and Licking) expert. I’ve managed to develop some of my own observations on real-world ETL while watching my owner pecking away at his computer. I’m just about ready to be done with winter; however it is nice to lounge in [...]

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Making ETL easy is certainly very hard

Over the past 12 months, we have been busy designing our next release of our ETL and data integration platform (expressor 3.0), which will eventually replace our existing expressor product set (currently on expressor 2.4). In many ways the leap from 2.4 to 3.0 does not seem wide enough. What we are doing in expressor [...]

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what’s so magic about Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant update?

Gartner recently updated their Magic Quadrant (MQ) for data integration tools and with the exception of one new vendor, who was included based on their free download open source business practices, little has changed, including the top right-hand quadrant. As you would expect, the MQ leadership quadrant continues to be controlled by Informatica and IBM [...]

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A practitioner’s view on data integration worst practices

GMZ875RPMGWT In my last blog, I spoke about some of the best practices in data integration. Today, I’d like to briefly talk about some of the worst practices. These insights come again from Phil Watt, who was the keynote speaker at our Nov 19 webinar on affordable, end-to-end data integration lifecycle management. Paul stated that [...]

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Re: ETL tools: Don’t Forget About the Little Dogs

Rick Sherman just published his latest article on “ETL tools: Don’t Forget About the Little Dogs” where he expressed his concern that potential buyers of ETL/DI tools are only looking at a small number of (established) players in the ETL marketplace and suggested that buyers should take a closer look at the new breed of [...]

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after purchasing, please read the documentation

My first job out of college was working for a company that made what they called the “bag.” The “bag” was a cellular/GPS device designed to track parolees and warn when they might be doing something they should not. It was 1995 and I could not have asked for a better first job. The system [...]

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expressor gains strong momentum

expressor software provided a business update today — announcing that the company is gaining strong momentum in all areas of its operations, as shown by a number of new customers, partners, products and hires. Read the full news release. – Steve Casey, marketing

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