Tag Archives: semantic rationalization

Semantic Types simplify data mapping

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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What is semantic integration and what makes it different (Part 2)?

Consider a couple of interesting semantic integration use cases that I have worked with expressor customers on recently.  First is the example provided in one of our webinars with American Tower, where one of the attributes of their towers was called the same name but represented differently in 2 separate systems (similar to where we need [...]

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What is semantic integration and what makes it different?

Lately I’ve been asked frequently ‘what is semantic integration and what makes it different’?   While I can usually quickly explain the differences and advantages to someone who has previously done large scale data integration, it can be somewhat of a challenge to explain the advantages of this approach to others.  The difficulty seems to stem [...]

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expressor announces version 2.2 of semantic data integration system

We are gearing up for the release of expressor 2.2 at the end of April 2010.  This latest release features enhanced semantic rationalization and team development capabilities, additional database connectivity and expanded Microsoft platform support.  Many of these features also help lay the groundwork for the game-changing usability we will deliver in version 3.0 of [...]

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why expressor’s data mapping approach is different?

In my last blog, I wrote about the state of the traditional data integration market.   In today’s blog, I’d like to discuss why expressor’s approach to data mapping is different from traditional ETL/DI tools and what the benefits of our approach are. In expressor’s unique semantic rationalization approach, a data steward “maps” the external (technical) [...]

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insight series: introduction to automatic rationalization

An expressor image is an XML-based description of a data record in an expressor data integration application.  Each element in an image file describes a column in a database table.  As part of writing an image file, you carry out the expressor semantic rationalization process. During this semantic rationalization process you specify for each field [...]

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Feb 11 “deep dive” technical webinar

On February 11, Hugo Sheng, our director of field engineering, will be hosting a technical webinar on the expressor semantic data integration system.  During the event, he will discuss five key aspects of expressor, including: product architecture – from interface to engine to application semantic rationalization – its conceptual framework and practical application collaborative team development – the [...]

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