Tag Archives: pricing

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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expressor and Talend debate pricing models, transparency

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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American Tower turbocharges DW application with expressor

American Tower operates thousands of communications sites across the US for the wireless and broadcast industries.  The company uses Microsoft Windows throughout the organization, is a heavy user of Microsoft SQL Server as well as Oracle and has adopted many of the Microsoft productivity tools — including SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). American Tower is satisfied [...]

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data integration software pricing gone crazy

I was talking to one of our prospective customers the other day and was reminded again how addictive it is to fall into the enterprise software pricing trap, which is all about extorting every possible dollar out of a client’s IT budget so that the vendor can continue with its outdated and outrageous business model. [...]

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