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April 2, 2009
the amalgamation proclamation
So admittedly expressor is the new kid on the data integration block. Surely, our parallel DI technology has been in the works for several years but that is pretty new by most companies' standards.
We too utilize a variety of architectures in our data integration system. We use Microsoft Visio as the foundation for our design tool. Microsoft Excel is utilized for our data architect workbench. We also use a J2EE stack as our backend to tie the whole system together via our semantic metadata repository. Mind you these are all standard enterprise technologies with familiar interfaces and functionality.
But have you seen what is out there in terms of data integration vendor software today? You can choose from a cobbled up system grown via acquisitions whose parts don't even work together, at all. Or my favorite and newest entry, a GUI tool that lets one write custom java code to do all the work. No wonder why data integration developers cost remain between $50 and $300 per hour. You need highly skilled technical resources to develop and maintain these systems.
Let us not also forget the large infrastructure vendors with their end to end solutions. Seems like every RDBMS vendor these days has an integration system. Some even work with competitor technology. Most are even free.
Sounds great!
But how does that help one with real-time or legacy data integration?
That's right, it does not.
What is the real goal of this 'free' software. Come on, we know!
I was talking to a prospective customer a few weeks ago about a new architecture they feel they need to move forward with. They are right by the way - their view is that the traditional way of developing ETL/DI applications is dead - too costly, too complex, too repetitive, and more. After months of tentative discussions and evaluations with six huge data integration players, this prospective customer called us, a small startup in Burlington, MA.
Why? Because there is a growing desire by companies to find new and better ways to approach complex data integration challenges.
- john russell, chief scientist and co-founder
Posted by expressor software at April 2, 2009 10:15 AM
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