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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
Posted by expressor software at March 11, 2009 7:15 AM
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