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March 25, 2009
breaking Moore's law
Moore's law basically states that the speed of a microprocessor doubles about every 18 months.
But how does this progress help an enterprise cope with exploding volumes of data when the growth of data is growing 1.5 to 2.5 every year? The correct answer, it does not.
Recently someone commented to me about a previous posting here on Ab Initio, and mentioned the 15 second start-up time for an Ab Initio graph. That got me thinking about performance. If you have 600 Ab Initio graphs you run in a nightly batch window with 15 seconds of start-up time that is 2.5 hours wasted. That is a lot of time!
So who cares?
Well you should. Data integration and Business intelligence are about turning data into information. Information is the key to running a successful business. Long gone are the days when a famous brand name will keep a company afloat.
Productivity is the single most important element when turning data into information. Performance is the most important element when you need the information now.
There are a few products on the market that really perform. The ones that perform best are a new breed of parallel processing architectures developed by observing the limitation of the old breed.
- john russell, chief scientist and co-founder
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March 19, 2009
expressor software named 'cool vendor' by Gartner
We are proud to having been selected by Gartner as a 'Cool Vendor' in Data Management and Integration. To learn more about the announcement, follow this link.
- Michael Waclawiczek, VP Marketing
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March 12, 2009
expressor co-sponsors TDWI webinar on operational data integration
On April 8th, TDWI will present a webinar on 'Operational Data Integration: A new Frontier for Data Management.' Co-sponsored by expressor, the webinar will feature Philip Russom, Senior Manager, TDWI Research, who will discuss business and technology drivers, as well as the varying requirements for analytic and operational data integration.
Click here for more information and to register.
- Michael Waclawiczek, VP Marketing
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March 11, 2009
head-to-head with Ab Initio
This question was first asked on the expressor LinkedIn community: 'So what happened when expressor and Ab Initio recently went head-to-head?'
It's hard to be sure which 'account' the writer is referring to, because we've gone head-to-head with Ab Initio more than once.
The common thread through every one of these engagements - as well as those where we've gone up against the other DI vendors including Informatica and IBM DataStage - was that companies want a more economical alternative for high-end data integration.
But obviously Ab Initio has a well-earned reputation as the technical performance leader, so there will always be companies who wouldn't even consider expressor if we couldn't deliver similar performance.
As one of our customers put it, lower cost alone just wouldn't 'cut it.'
In that particular case, expressor proved to be faster than Ab Initio. The POC performance benchmark involved 1.5 million customer and product records, two sources, and correlating the top five customers with the top five products. expressor cranked it all in 16 seconds ' Ab Initio took 23 seconds. They were nearly 50 percent slower.
No software vendor wins every benchmark or project or contract - but results like these are beginning to earn expressor a reputation as the only viable performance alternative to Ab Initio.
And that goes for partners as well as prospects. A number of our new partners are equally familiar with Ab Intio, Informatica and DataStage ' but are making the switch or adding an expressor practice and banking their businesses on us. We're heartened - and humbled - by their confidence and committed to our joint success.
- Michael Waclawiczek, VP Marketing
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March 9, 2009
BitWise announces ETL conversion tool
At expressor we are fortunate to have some of the world's foremost technology and integration partners.
Among these partners is BitWise.
What they have done in a just a few short months is absolutely amazing.
Just back in December of 2008 four individuals from BitWise attended the last expressor training class of the year. With their deep back ground in data integration, they are very familiar with other data integration products. They also immediately saw why expressor solves the shortcomings of other products.
One evening during training I went to dinner with the BitWise team. They explained how they had been working on an ETL conversion utility. I, of course, was interested as we have been asked many times by customers and prospects about just such a thing. What I thought was odd is that here it was late December and they indicated they would like to demo the tool in February. Odd.
Throughout January we exchange a few emails and it seemed they were making some headway. In early February they did a demo of the tool via WebEx. I had another meeting so missed it, but the reports were good. During the Winter 2009 TDWI conference in Las Vegas, BitWise joined expressor and I finally got to see the conversion demo.
WOW!! With the ability to convert korn shell scripts and XMI metadata this conversion tool converted some very complex applications. It was simply amazing how quick and precise these conversions were. I do not impress easily with software. I was impressed to say the very least.
At expressor we have been claiming for a year, 'you now have a choice.' Now you have even more of a choice to reduce you data integration costs.
- john russell, co-founder and chief scientist
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March 2, 2009
expressor/Netezza webinar: 'intelligent load and go'
On March 26th, expressor and Netezza will co-host a webinar on how expressor's 'intelligent load and go' processes can improve the performance, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of Netezza data warehouse implementations.
Click here for more information and to register.
- Michael Waclawiczek, VP Marketing
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