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On-demand webinar: expressor 3.1 Semantic Types

By mikew | Published March 25, 2011

In this on-demand webinar video, expressor thought leadership webinar, Bill Kehoe, expressor’s chief architect, discusses and demonstrates the innovative new Semantic Types concepts in expressor Studio 3.1. Semantic Types provide developers the ability to model their ETL data structures independent of specific data sources and targets. This powerful approach simplifies the data mapping process and makes [...]

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expressor Semantic Types blog series – Part 5: Building Dataflows

By bkehoe | Published February 22, 2011

This is the fifth installment in my blog series on semantic types.  In last week’s post, I described how multiple, delimited data files, each having different field layout orders, different field delimiters and different number and date formats can be mapped to the same semantic type using expressor Studio’s schema mapping editor.  Specifically, we mapped [...]

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expressor introduces semantic types

By systems | Published November 23, 2010

For those of you who haven’t had a chance to read Philip Howard’s article on our new semantic types capability, we encourage you to do so! As always, let us know what you think. http://www.businesscomputingworld.co.uk/expressor-introduces-semantic-types/

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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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Semantic Types simplify data mapping

By mikew | Published October 29, 2010

With expressor Studio 3.0, we will be extending our unique semantic integration capabilities with Semantic Types—a powerful new approach to data mapping and transformation that greatly reduces your time-to-value. Instead of defining point-to-point, source-to-target mappings and individual rules, you can define a Semantic Type representative of business data, create business rules you want to apply [...]

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Back to basics!

By mikew | Published September 27, 2010

We have all heard this expression way too many times before?    Does it ring a bell when you hear our politicians use this term?   Don’t worry, I won’t go there! What I want to do is to indulge you in a little math game.  My game is about asking you how many source to target data [...]

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Sept 29 webinar on “Why consider semantic integration?”

By systems | Published September 27, 2010

Join Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Andy Leonard, and expressor Senior Director of Product Management, Michael Ruland, for Part 3 of our 4-part webinar series on “Building a scalable data warehouse for SQL Server”. Archived webinar:  Part 1 – data warehousing basics Archived webinar:  Part 2 – importance of good metadata management Live webinar on Sept 29:  Part [...]

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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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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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Bob Potter on our expressor Studio 3.0 pre-release program

By systems | Published July 23, 2010

Mike Ruland, expressor’s director of product management, recently blogged on expressor Studio 3.0 Pre-release 2.  Now find out what CEO Bob Potter has to say about this latest Pre-release and why he believes that expressor Studio 3.0 will become a game changer in the data integration industry.  Watch our space …

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