Tag Archives: TCO

expressor vs Informatica / DataStage pricing

We are often asked how expressor’s pricing compares with that of Informatica or IBM InfoSphere DataStage.  So let me take this opportunity and use a practical example for how a sales person of one of these two companies might quote you for an application that includes licenses for your development, QA & test, and production [...]

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ten tips for selecting a data integration tool

As the economy begins to recover and more organizations are looking to increase their IT investment — we thought it would be helpful to highlight the following “ten tips for selecting a data integrtion tool,” which were first published by Dr. David Waddington in his white paper entitled, ” Data Integration: Total Cost of Ownership [...]

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“Good enough” technology and data integration

Great article in Wired the other day about the “good enough revolution” in technology – how simple and affordable devices like the Flip video camera have achieved market dominance over “better” competing products. This is a real trend, with implications for IT as well. In her “Business-Driven Architect” blog on ebizQ, Brenda Michelson notes that [...]

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data integration cost reform (part one)

Many of us are enamored by the serious health care debate here in the US, which is aimed at providing coverage for every American while reducing the overall health care costs per capita (which are 6,000 dollars/year higher than in other industrialized nations) in the future. Without doubt, a similar cost reduction debate is beginning [...]

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Oh, you want to drive it? That’s extra. Data integration and complex data types.

Funny how people seem to have forgotten that the purpose of data integration tools is to integrate data. A wide range of data. The sad truth is that the baseline versions of most data integration tools are incapable of integrating EDI, HL7, SAS or even Excel data. For them, DI is a simple flat-file to [...]

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timing is everything — 2009 data integration predictions

More on Gartner — this time their predictions for the data integration market in 2009 and beyond, issued December 12th. True to form, this report provides more than a dozen pages of detailed analysis, but I think the biggest takeaways are that: • companies need to use DI to more strategically manage their data if [...]

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