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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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screenshot of the day: expressor Studio 3.0 pre-release 2

By systems | Published August 19, 2010

expressor Studio 3.0 is a free, easy to use, powerful (ETL and) data integration application that is based on breakthrough technology innovations to enable true semantic integration. expressor Studio lets you easily connect to a wide range of data sources, map your data fields to common business names and types, and graphically design complex data [...]

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Free vs open-source ETL. Is there a difference?

By mikew | Published August 17, 2010

The ETL / data integration market is constantly evolving and open source vendors have been leading the charge in providing some and in some instances all of their software for free. Those who chose to charge for just maintenance and services only have a hard time making their business models work. Those like Talend who [...]

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Who is expressor’s competition in data integration?

By mikew | Published July 29, 2010

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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When is Open Source not really open?

By | Published July 21, 2010

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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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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etl expands into SMB market

By mikew | Published January 31, 2010

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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semantic rationalization blog series: part 5 – reusability and ease of use

By systems | Published December 20, 2009

In my last blog, I discussed the benefits of our abstraction layer. In this final blog in the series, I’ll wrap things up with a discussion of reusability and ease of use. As you might imagine, our new paradigm for viewing data involves a number of new concepts that bear careful explanation. Issues such as [...]

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expressor on semanticweb.com

By systems | Published November 2, 2009

Nice coverage on semanticweb.com about expressor’s unique approach to data integration and American Tower win.

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expressor and Talend debate pricing models, transparency

By systems | Published October 30, 2009

Very interesting conversation taking place between expressor and Talend over on Merv Adrian’s blog — Market Strategies for IT Suppliers. FYI, the first post from expressor’s Michael Waclawiczek is #21 on the comment list and Talend’s Yves de Montcheuil responds shortly after.

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