affordable, end-to-end data integration lifecycle management

problem: making an end-to-end data integration lifecycle a reality

To improve the quality and success of your data integration applications, industry analysts and expert practitioners recommend spending as much as 50% of the total data integration project time on data analysis, mappings and transformations -- and increasing the involvement of business users.

But the labor-intensive nature of traditional data profiling products has created the perception that data profiling is an expensive add-on rather than a time-saver, and the complexity of most ETL tools continues to be a barrier to involvement by business users.

The result is too many data integration projects get stuck in an endless and error-prone loop of manual data analysis, data mapping and transformation adjustments, testing and corrections.

expressor solution: making an end-to-end data integration lifecycle a reality

The expressor / X88 data integration lifecycle solution offers easy data profiling, automatic data mapping specification generation, semantic ETL implementation and automatic ETL results verification.   

It all starts with X88 Pandora, a next-generation data discovery, profiling and analysis tool that can automatically profile and cross-reference very high volumes of data. By enabling you to iteratively prototype data cleansing and business rules in real time, X88 Pandora’s business-friendly interface provides clear, visual evidence of the effects of your data transformations.

Once your prototype is complete, the high-performance expressor semantic data integration system, using the data specification generated by X88, semantically rationalizes all physical metadata constructs around common business terms and writes target-specific data transformation and business rules that are 100% reusable. You can then test the ETL code produced by expressor against your original mapping specification and test your target systems to check the correctness of your transformations – “closing the loop” once and for all to produce the highest-quality data integration applications.

benefits: more business involvement, cleaner data, verified transformations, faster time-to-delivery

• enabling you to iteratively prototype business rules and create test data with minimal involvement from technical teams
• guaranteeing your ETL code matches your business requirements
• creating a semantic foundation that provides a common language for technical and business users
• processing your data many times faster
• reducing the risk of complex data processing
• greatly reducing the time you spend on design, development and testing

The expressor / X88 data integration lifecycle solution offers easy data profiling, automatic data mapping specification generation, semantic ETL implementation and automatic ETL results verification.