Data Integration and ETL News

Deal validates tectonic shift in data warehousing, puts pressure on Oracle and independent appliance vendors.

Loraine Lawson posted a link to a webinar on Operational Data Integration: The Growing Practice of ETL Outside of Data Warehousing that will be held on the 13th of August by TDWI Research Sr. Manager, Philip Russom.

Webinar Abstract
TDWI Research shows that data integration usage – especially in the form of ETL – is growing overall, but growing fastest outside of data warehousing. This is because ETL tools and techniques are increasingly applied to operational data integration projects within and beyond the enterprise, like database and application consolidations, migrations, upgrades, synchronizations, and B2B data exchange. The number of these technical projects is driven up by business events, like mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and sharing data with partners.

You will learn:

* Why ETL usage is growing outside of data warehousing
* What kind of technology requirements this involves, including new ones like SOA and software as a service (SaaS)
* How requirements for tools, techniques, and teams for ETL vary between warehousing and non-warehousing projects
* Which approaches help accommodate non-warehouse ETL without raiding resources of the data warehouse team

KID Delivers Apatar Open Source Data Integration to South Africa

July 23, 2008, Chicopee, MA Â Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID), a Johannesburg-based company that delivers high-performance business intelligence, data warehousing, data integration, and data management solutions, has concluded a system integrator partnership agreement with U.S.-headquartered Apatar to distribute its open source data integration suite in South Africa. KID will use, consult, train, and offer support services for the Apatar integration package that offers a single interface into all integration projects across Mac OS, Windows, and Linux using an open source architecture and modular applications that deliver flexible deployment options.

The growing need for data integration across corporate South Africa

ÂSouth Africa is a quickly developing region and it is very important for us to fill the open source data integration niche, says Sergei Lobanov, Alliance Enabler at Apatar. ÂWith its presence in the South African market, KID, with the help of Apatar, will be able to satisfy customer requirements to integrate legacy and modern systems, applications, and databases through a proven track record of data quality services.Â

Apatar already has in excess of 100 users in South Africa and expects KID to rapidly expand its penetration of the local market. KID is ApatarÂs first South African partner, opening new opportunities and advantages for both parties. The companies reveal their main target is small and mid-sized companies in South Africa that have a need for a free, easy-to-use extract, transform, and load (ETL) tool.

ÂThe growing need for data integration across corporate South Africa, from the smallest to the largest companies, necessitates an open source tool that operates in a number of environments and offers customers the greatest flexibility, said Julian Field, Business Development Director at KID. ÂApatar is at the forefront of the open source wave with an impressive international track record and a...