Desktop ETL Solutions

Creating a “single version of the truth” often requires consolidating data from multiple data sources into a single target. However, the various data sources are rarely expressed in a consistent format. expressor’s powerful business-centric approach is ideal for data consolidation tasks, enabling sophisticated data mappings, business rules and constraints, and error handling rules to be defined in business terms, simplifying development and maintenance. expressor’s unique approach to data integration insulates applications from changes to endpoints by automatically adapting to changes in sources and targets, and expressor's powerful metadata layer enforces the normalization of the source data to the desired formats. 

Key Features:

• Enables a unique and intuitive business-centric approach to data integration by simplifying the creation and maintenance of applications that consolidate data from multiple sources.
• Simplifies the reuse of artifacts, configurations, and business rules.
• Provides built-in data type conversions.
  

Key Benefits:

• Lowers total lifecycle costs through simplified development, maintenance, and reuse.
• Simplifies application maintenance and reduces errors and redundancy.
• Insulates applications from changes to endpoints and automatically adapts to changes in sources and targets.

Customer Use Case: 

A leading laboratory informatics company that provides services to multiple global 2000 pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies uses expressor to consolidate multiple instances of their laboratory informatics systems into a single representation for its customers.

expressor’s data QC solution provides built-in capabilities for many common data quality tasks such as name, address, and email cleansing. expressor also provides configurable templates and operators for various data cleansing tasks, and a powerful environment for creating and maintaining user-defined validation, constraint, and error handling rules to ensure that all data that is passed to the target is validated and cleansed.

Key Features:

• Provides extensive built-in data quality and cleansing functions.
• Includes a powerful scripting language to enable creation and reuse of custom, user-defined cleansing functions.
• Provides built-in data type conversions.
• Enables cleansing that is performed in-flow and is transparent to the user.
  

Key Benefits:

• Provides a simple and affordable way to cleanse data.
• Ensures only cleansed and validated data is passed to the target.
• Reduces system infrastructure costs through providing exceptional runtime performance, utilizing a small footprint, and fully leveraging commodity hardware.
  

Customer Use Case: 

A leading email marketing automation vendor utilizes expressor’s data quality solution to create new applications that process incoming data from customers eight times faster and improve maintenance speed by a factor of eight. expressor's solution also allows users with a wider range of skill sets to create and extend these applications.

expressor’s onboarding operational data solution provides the ideal platform for companies that must accept operational data in dissimilar formats from multiple partners to support critical business processes. The solution provides a fast, reliable, easy-to-use approach to accessing, transforming, and delivering data from virtually any business systems in any formats, enabling speed and simplicity of integration, and unprecedented re-use of existing data integration artifacts.

Key Features:

• Enables a unique and intuitive business-centric approach to onboarding operational data by simplifying the creation and maintenance of applications that consolidate data from multiple sources and in dissimilar formats.
• Simplifies the reuse of artifacts, configurations, and business rules.
• Offers a powerful scripting language, Datascript, for creating user defined transformation functions.
• Provides support for multiple on-premises and cloud-based data sources and targets.

Key Benefits:

• Lowers onboarding costs through simplified development, maintenance, and reuse.
• Simplifies onboarding of new data from existing sources, and data from new sources.
• Insulates applications from changes to endpoints and automatically adapts to changes in sources and targets, reducing errors and redundancy in the onboarding processing.
• Promotes standardized processing of data.

Customer Use Case:

A marketing services provider (MSP) serves a large number of financial institutions, providing various forms of email communications and campaigns to each financial institution’s customers. The company uses expressor to validate, normalize, and import client file data into its email marketing database. It operates on tight timeframes, executing multiple campaigns for a range of clients across multiple time zones.

To learn more about expressor's Onboarding Operational Data solution, download our whitepaper today!