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February 5, 2010
SQLSaturday #34 (Boston) recap
expressor co-sponsored this event last Saturday, Jan 30, at the Microsoft office in Waltham, MA.
This training event was very well organized and there were at least 300 attendees at the venue during the day. We had a great reception at our exhibitor booth and were able to interact with over 100 attendees at our booth.
Many of the attendees we talked to are already using or planning to use SSIS, which confirms that the SQL Server community is increasingly embracing ETL technology. SSIS folks generally like the product but are very much aware of the limitations it has. We handed out a survey at this event were we asked booth visitors to answer a few questions aimed at finding out common pain points SSIS users have. Here is what they had to say:
- migrating SSIS packages from development, through testing, into production is very painful
- achieving good SSIS performance can be a difficult task and often requires serious performance tuning
- it is difficult to handle complex transformations such as multi-step business rules, complex multi-joins, multi-level aggregations, etc
- it is difficult to integrate non-Microsoft data sources (e.g. Oracle)
These survey results are very much in line with what we are hearing from our SSIS customers and sales prospects.
During lunch time, Michael Ruland, our director of field engineering, gave another great 45 minute technical overview presentation, which was well attended and received by the audience. Michael's presentation can be viewed by clicking here.
In summary, this was another great SQLSaturday event for us - and it is good to be amidst a vibrant SQL Server community that is very upbeat about the SQL Server product. As it regards expressor, we have a great opportunity to complement SSIS in SQL Server ETL projects where customers need enterprise-class performance, lifecycle management, and heterogeneous data integration capabilities.
On to the next SQLSaturday event in mid March.
Michael Waclawiczek, VP Marketing
Posted by expressor software at February 5, 2010 5:45 PM
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