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January 14, 2010
Insight series: expressor projects
This is the second in a series of mini-tutorials designed to provide insight into expressor's features and capabilities. In this particular blog, I'll explain some of the basics of an expressor project, which is the foundation for building an expressor data integration application.
Each project is composed of:
- image files - describing the data records being processed
- network files - describing where the data for each step of the application is located
- configuration files - describing runtime environment settings, parameters and values
- drawing files - describing data flows and transformations
Projects also include relevant data on role assignments, server names and security credentials and policies.
The responsibilities for developing, testing, and deploying an expressor project are distributed across multiple roles established during project definition. To develop a new project, an architect, working with expressor administrator, creates the necessary networks and channels, images and configuration files and assigns the appropriate analysts, stewards and ETL developers.
Once defined, the project can be checked out by the individuals assigned to the project, who use expressor's administrator, constructor, initiator and illustrator tools to create additional project artifacts - as shown in the following diagram.
expressor's unique approach to project design, creation and management makes it easier to optimize your resources and improve application quality.
John Lifter, senior manager of education, expressor
Posted by expressor software at January 14, 2010 12:15 PM
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