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expressor Semantic Types blog series – Part 4: Mapping External Data

By bkehoe | Published February 11, 2011

We’re now up to part 4 in our blog series on semantic types. I won’t waste any space here reviewing what I covered already in parts 1, 2 and 3 so if you’re just joining the series, you should use those links to read up on where we’re at before reading further. Part 3 left off [...]

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Darwin’s ETL: A Data Integration Puzzle for You

By darwinetl | Published January 26, 2011

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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Another “free ETL for everyone” week goes by

By mikew | Published January 8, 2011

This has been a very exciting week for expressor.  We formally announced the general availability of our expressor 3.0 Community Edition earlier this week on Tuesday, which includes expressor Studio, our brand new, innovative, and FREE data integration application. The uptake of expressor Studio in terms of downloads far exceeds our expectations.  We have had [...]

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Requirements for semantics automation in ETL

By mikew | Published November 17, 2010

One of the main challenges in ETL is how to normalize a large variety of input data formats so that the business rules can be expressed in a common way, independent of those different formats. Although there is a wide range of possible solutions, all traditional ETL approaches tend to suffer from one or more [...]

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expressor Studio: easy-to-use alternative to open source ETL

By mikew | Published September 6, 2010

You may be wondering what expressor Studio 3.0 is all about and why expressor is developing a free of charge alternative to open source ETL software from the likes of Talend. So let me start by describing expressor Studio to you.   It is a unique, new .Net application available on Windows XP and Windows 7 platforms.  The [...]

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Data integration software – what makes it easy-to-use?

By mikew | Published August 31, 2010

As with any enterprise software, there are a number of criteria that determine if it is perceived to be easy to use relative to competitive offerings. In this blog entry, I’d like to examine some of the ease of use criteria that any ETL/data integration software should adhere to. Later on, I’d also like to [...]

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The importance of metadata in data integration

By mikew | Published August 26, 2010

End user companies are consistently stressing the importance of metadata as shown in various research studies conducted by Gartner, TDWI, and other analyst firms. So you ask, what has gone wrong; why are so many ETL and data integration vendors still not fully addressing this important aspect in their products? Let’s first look at some [...]

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expressor enhances low-latency data processing performance

By mikew | Published June 20, 2010

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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ETL open source software pricing vs expressor

By mikew | Published May 26, 2010

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 online demo

By systems | Published May 25, 2010

You might be interested in checking out our online demo, which gives you a brief overview of the expressor system followed by a demo of expressor 2.2 illustrator, the Visio-based GUI application geared at developers. – Michael Waclawiczek, VP of Marketing

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