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February 17, 2009

expressor online demo

You might be interested in checking out our new online demo, which gives you a brief overview of the expressor system followed by a demo of expressor illustrator, the Visio-based GUI application geared at developers.

- Michael Waclawiczek, VP of Marketing

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February 12, 2009

a lingua franca for data integration

I've said here before that developers should be shielded from the underlying technology of any solution. How else can we focus on what's really important - delivering a functioning application that solves a real business need?

But we also need to work on the language problem. Why should we be forced to juggle a handful of different programming or scripting languages like C, Perl, Java or Korn shell? If a developer is working in SQL, they should be able to do everything they need to do in SQL, without having to resort to Perl, Javascript or a stored procedure.

Too often, we end up creating a shell script or bat file that sets up the environment, do some finagling, then kick off the application - in an inefficient mish mash of technologies.

We need a better way, a single, universal language.

Like expressor datascript - the command-line scripting language we use in our product for every function and feature in the system, from importing custom metadata to scheduling to even creating macros in the editors. With datascript, developers working in expressor can migrate data to Oracle or Netezza, process files, script on the command line - from one place, in one language.

- john russell, co-founder and chief scientist

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February 4, 2009

keeping it real

We've been talking for a while with a prospect interested in data integration delivered through the cloud, and the solution we're working on is a practical implementation of the 'active data warehouse' philosophy.

I like how InformationWeek's Richard Martin once described the whole concept, paraphrasing Teradata's Stephen Bropst, as: 'activating the data in storage to enable automated, near-real-time decision-making to increase business revenue.'

There's no arguing that the types and amounts of data businesses need to analyze are expanding beyond their ability to capture and comprehend them - at the same time when economic pressures demand split-second, accurate decision-making.

Or that the ETL/DI tool vendors are right in the middle of this mess. As I talked about in my last post, I cannot understand how our competitors can ignore 'complex' data types when it is these same non-standard formats and technologies like XML and RFID that are the 'wind' blowing the data tsunami onward toward shore every day.

So once again, our challenge is to make it real. To turn concept into reality. Move from the classroom to the cool room.

This is what we're all about and what I've been doing for 18 years now.

BTW, Bropst usually speaks at the TDWI conference. Perhaps the one in Las Vegas in a couple of weeks. So if you're going, you may want to stop by and hear more about his vision for active data warehouses.

I'll be at the show as well. Look me up if you want to talk real-time in real time.