etl and data integration solutions

Traditional data integration solutions on the market are complex, bloated, and service-intensive. Companies can now tackle the complexity and cost of enterprise IT projects with semantic data integration software that delivers breakthrough development productivity and data processing performance at a significant price/performance advantage. expressor allows organizations to reuse the most labor-intensive elements of data integration projects, deliver superior data processing performance, and reap significant cost savings in both development and project lifecycle management and in hardware and software licensing. The following are just a few of the solutions enabled by expressor:

SSIS performance alternative

You are a satisfied Microsoft developer, but the increasing complexity of your data integration needs is expanding beyond the limits of Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). You have to write too much complex code to transform your data. Some of your applications are not fast enough. You’re having trouble integrating diverse data sources. With expressor you can turbocharge your ETL development and develop enterprise-scale data integration applications for SQL Server and numerous other information sources.

high-performance processing of complex data

Unlike many traditional ETL and data integration tools such as Informatica, the expressor solution efficiently handles complex data structures and supports hierarchical predicate data—data that includes rules for handling that data. It can natively read and write SAS and xml files, and it allows the enterprise to integrate complex files without the need to “flatten” the data. The expressor processor can be deployed in a mixed environment composed of computers running Windows, linux, and UNIX operating systems. It requires a small memory footprint and can process terabytes of data per hour on a single machine to integrate the most complex data sources.

faster, reusable data migration

Acquisitions, technology migrations, and upgrades in enterprise applications are just a few of the many drivers for data migration. The concept of building integration applications that are tightly coupled with the physical data environment is fundamentally flawed and a main reason why a new semantic approach is needed to overcome this data mapping malaise. The enterprise can now virtualize the physical data environment, driving simple, fast, and smart data migration. With expressor, many data migration initiatives can be completed very quickly, and expressor software offers an innovative pricing model that allows the enterprise to license the software for as little as six months and drive down the total cost of ownership for these kinds of data integration solutions.

low-cost, high-performance data warehousing

When developing high-performance data warehouses, few organizations can afford to avoid the compromises involved in any single approach to data integration. ETL offers the ability to reuse valuable metadata and commercial ETL tools offer sophisticated features such as data lineage, profiling and configuration management. But most ETL tools are prohibitively expensive.  Leveraging your data warehouse appliance for ELT can offer higher performance and lower cost than ETL, but you also forfeit ETL’s metadata benefits, and the custom code required to perform data extractions and transformations can be difficult to maintain. expressor / Netezza intelligent load & go^tm combines the affordable expressor semantic data integration system with Netezza’s high-performance data warehouse appliance to remove the cost barrier to high-performance ETL and allow organizations to choose the data warehouse architecture most appropriate for their specific applications.

expressor also partners with Teradata to deliver an affordable data warehousing and data integration solution for mid-market businesses.  Learn more about the benefits of this high-performance BI/data warehousing offering. 

rapid etl conversion to expressor

Until now, choosing a high-end ETL/DI platform also meant giving up the ability to migrate existing applications to another ETL platform. Not only do their proprietary tools and scripting languages present significant technical barriers and labor costs, but since all current-generation high-end ETL/DI solutions are very expensive, it is near-impossible to justify the expense, time and risk involved in any migration. expressor software is partnering with global software services provider BitWise to accelerate the migration of existing ETL applications to expressor with an end-to-end software and services solution that cuts migration cost and time by 80%.

operational data integration

Operational data integration (OpDI) -- the migration, consolidation and synchronization of operational data -- is a growing solutions area with the potential to improve overall data quality, data management and business operations.  According to TDWI’s recent report, “Operational Data Integration, A New Frontier for Data Management," the preferred approach to building OpDI applications is ETL, but the current-generation of DI/ETL tools are too expensive and complex for many organizations, and few hand-coded ETL solutions were designed to handle the unique requirements of operational data integration, such as support for unstructured data and real-time data delivery. The next-generation expressor semantic data integration system offers an affordable alternative to current ETL tools and hand-coded solutions that brings the benefits of operational data integration within reach of virtually any organization.

end-to-end data integration lifecycle management

To improve the quality and success of your data integration applications, industry analysts and expert practitioners recommend spending as much as 50% of the total data integration project time on data analysis, mappings and transformations -- and increasing the involvement of business users. The expressor / X88 data integration lifecycle solution offers easy data profiling, automatic data mapping specification generation, semantic ETL implementation and automatic ETL results verification at an affordable price.

Ab Initio alternative

Until now, companies with the highest-performance data integration needs – the biggest data sets, fastest throughput requirements and lowest latency applications -- have faced a difficult choice: build a custom-coded solution or buy Ab Initio.  Custom-coded high-performance DI solutions can cost less, but they frequently involve endless development and maintenance headaches.  Opting for Ab Initio promises unmatched data processing performance, but no other ETL or DI solution costs as much. High-performance data integration customers now have a better option: the smarter, faster and more affordable expressor semantic data integration system. expressor ‘s advantages in performance and affordability are being validated every day by new customers and partners making the switch from Ab Initio.

low-latency data processing

In today’s on-demand world, day- or even hour-old data can be obsolete.  More organizations are building real-time business intelligence applications that require low-latency data integration solutions to deliver actionable information without system interruption or downtime.  This kind of performance is only possible with a high-performance data processing engine.  Tests have shown expressor’s parallel data processing engine is the fastest on the market, with sustained throughput of 2.9TB/hour and reaching 10.89 TB/hour using expressor’s proprietary compression technology.  In addition, expressor’s ultrafast engine can run in intermittent or perpetual mode, supporting both real-time and batch applications on the same platform.

data governance

Managing enterprise information requires policies and rules governing systems, processors, and users, and expressor enables secure, role-based data governance. Unlike traditional integration platforms that allow developers throughout the enterprise to import whatever assets they choose into an application, expressor controls access to data via role-based security. IT can effectively manage and control access according to roles, and can define and enforce efficient policies for data governance. Organizations can also leverage role-based data governance to support secure outsourcing and off-shoring of data integration projects.

data quality

IT can protect the quality of enterprise data by relying on smart semantics to provide a semantic foundation that enables efficient reuse of business rules and common semantics across multiple applications. With smart semantics, organizations can virtualize the external data, providing a consistent, streamlined data integration interface. Most organizations think of data quality only for common fields such as standardizing addresses and names (e.g. “Robert”=”Rob”=”Bob”), but expressor supports data quality for more complex fields, such as product names, order numbers, and product descriptions. By selecting expressor to enhance data quality, organizations can benefit from total lifecycle management while driving down the total cost of ownership and assuring consistent quality rules are implemented across the enterprise.

To find out more about how expressor software can help you solve your data integration problems, visit the why expressor page or contact us.