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problem: current-generation ETL tools limit operational data integration (OpDI)

As Philip Russom concludes in his comprehensive research report for TDWI, “Operational Data Integration, A New Frontier for Data Management," the migration, consolidation and synchronization of operational data is a growing solutions area with the potential to improve overall data quality, data management and business operations.

According to the report, the preferred approach to building operational data integration (OpDI) applications is ETL, but the current-generation of DI/ETL tools are too expensive and complex for many organizations, and few hand-coded ETL solutions were designed to handle the unique requirements of operational data integration, such as support for unstructured data and real-time data delivery.

expressor solution: high-performance, low-cost DI

The next-generation expressor semantic data integration system offers an affordable alternative to current ETL tools and hand-coded solutions that brings the benefits of operational data integration within reach of virtually any organization.

DI tends to be project-based, most often for data migrations and consolidations required when companies move or consolidate application platforms or acquire another organization.

"expressor’s ability to process complex data types ‘natively’ and ‘in-flight,’ especially semi-structured formats such as XML, make it well-suited to the emerging and important ETL application of operational data integration.”

Philip Russom, senior manager of TDWI Research

 

expressor’s affordable term licensing options– for as short as six months and as little as 5,000 US dollars – are designed precisely for these types of ad-hoc, fixed-length initiatives.

Another defining characteristic of OpDI is that it is inherently collaborative, typically involving resources from diverse business and technical groups, according to TDWI. expressor’s team-oriented application development and lifecycle management environment includes role-based tools for the specific tasks performed by data architects, data analysts, implementers and project managers. All user activities are carefully tracked, providing a secure and auditable environment.

And as OpDI applications evolve to handle more non-traditional data sources, the ability to process complex data types is becoming a key solution requirement. Unlike many current ETL/DI tools, which have been optimized for relational database data types and structures, expressor was designed from the ground-up to handle a wide range of complex data formats including xml and other semi-structured data.

benefits: improved business operations

By choosing the expressor semantic data integration system for operational data integration, you can benefit from:

  • low cost of entry and ownership that make it possible to get started on OpDI or increase the ROI of existing operational data integration applications to improve business operations
  • deploying one solution for both operational and analytical data integration, since expressor’s ultrafast parallel data processing engine can run either in batch or real-time data processing mode
  • leverage expressor's unique approach to processing complex data "in-flight" to achieve the highest data processing performance  
  • improved data quality and data governance resulting from expressor’s smart semantics approach to metadata rationalization

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