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Interview with CEO Bob Potter |
1. How is the expressor business doing and what’s your outlook for the remainder of 2010?
Since we introduced expressor 2.0 in July of 2009 we have experienced steady customer adoption and revenue growth. Every quarter starting with Q3 of ’09 has resulted in growth over the previous quarter. We are seeing repeat orders from existing customers and successful customer deployments. I expect the second half of this year to be a continuation of this trend and with some help from an improving worldwide economy, an excellent Q4.
2. You recently announced Skechers as a new customer. Who did you partner with for this business?
The Skechers win was very satisfying for us. First and foremost this is an outstandingly well-run company experiencing exponential growth in a very competitive market. Skechers’ technology evaluations were very thorough and having been down this path once before, we found the customer to be very educated and serious in defining the success criteria of their data warehouse initiative. We partnered with Teradata’s newly established mid-market team, who treated us as equals throughout the entire evaluation process. Skechers in turn quickly realized that Teradata and expressor are committed to each other and on jointly delivering customer success.
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3. You are talking more and more with prospects, customers and partners about your upcoming expressor 3.0 release. What can we expect to see in this release and when?
After getting expressor software started and financed, expressor 3.0 is the single most important milestone in the history of the company to date. Based on the first two expressor 3.0 pre-release versions in the field, we are expecting this release to deliver on the original vision of the company, which is to deliver pervasive, cost-effective, fast and easy-to-use data integration software. There are some vendors out there that deliver on one or even a couple of these promises, but no one delivers on all four. Our software is already cost-effective and fast. By delivering game changing breakthrough usability, we believe we can lead a revolution in making data integration software ubiquitous and realize our vision.
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Skechers USA selects expressor for new data warehousing initiative |
On July 29, expressor announced that it has signed Skechers USA, a global leader in lifestyle footwear, as a customer. Skechers is using the expressor semantic data integration system, along with Teradata and MicroStrategy, to build a new enterprise data warehouse supporting advanced business intelligence and analytic applications.
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expressor issues Q2 2010 momentum release |
expressor recently announced its results for Q2 2010, which included significant year-over-year and sequential growth based on increasing success for its affordable, enterprise-class data integration software.
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expressor upgrades eval edition |
The expressor eval edition, a hosted version of the expressor semantic data integration system, has been upgraded and is now based on the latest version, expressor 2.3, of our commercial product. Since we launched the eval edition late last year, hundreds of users have successfully evaluated our product during their 30-day trial period.
The expressor 2.3 eval edition is available to registered users and fully supported by the expressor customer support organization.
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expressor/PPC webinar recording on "getting data governance right" |
expressor software and business intelligence expert Project Performance Corporation (PPC) recently gave a joint webinar presentation on the topic of data governance. Watch a replay of this webinar and learn:
- the key building blocks to a simple yet effective data governance solution.
- how PPC clients in the healthcare, government and financial services markets have won the data governance battle.
- how expressor’s semantic approach to data integration can align your IT and business organizations and empower data governance.
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expressor launches four-part webinar series with Andy Leonard |
Andy Leonard, a destinquished Microsoft MVP, and Michael Ruland, director of product management at expressor, will jointly present during a four part webinar series starting August 18. The theme of the webinar series is "Building a scalable, enterprise-class data warehouse for SQL Server" and will cover data warehousing basics, the importance of good meta data management, why you should consider semantic integration, and will wrap up with a demo of the upcoming expressor 3.0 beta release sometime in October.
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expressor listed as one of 40 vendors Information Management is watching in 2010 |
expressor software has been named by Information Management as one of the 40 vendors they'll be watching in 2010. The article written by Jim Ericson recognizes expressor for its work in semantic data integration and metadata management. It also states that the vendor selection was based on which software and appliance vendors in the information management space are receiving the most buzz from customers and analysts.
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CEO Bob Potter stirs controversy with Talend on "open source licensing" |
Bob Potter challenges Talend on whether their open source business model is really that open. Read more on his blog entry via the link below:
You can also check out other recent blog posts by expressor thought leaders on topics such as who's expressor's competition, expressor Studio Pre-release 2, and what is semantic integration and what makes it different.
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expressor Studio Pre-release 2 testing underway | |
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Mike Ruland, our director of product management, is currently working very closely with dozens of customers and partners on getting their feedback on Studio Pre-release 2. We are planning to make the next pre-release -- expressor Studio Pre-release 3 (Beta 1) -- generally available to the public sometime in late September.
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join us on LinkedIn! |
The “expressor professionals” LinkedIn group is a growing quickly and now has close to 500 members. This community represents a diverse group of expressor staff, customers, partners and data integration practitioners. Join us to stay connected and engage in discussions.
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upcoming live events |
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