Data Integration

Solutions Buyers Guide

Includes a Category Overview; the Top 10 Questions to Ask; Plus a Capabilities Reference of the Top 24 Solution Providers in Data Integration Technology

2014

Released by Solutions Review

11/1/2014

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INTRODUCTION: Big Data is the buzz - with everybody looking to jump onto the bandwagon. However, there is substance behind the buzz. When we talk about Big Data, we mean the following: with the sources and amounts of data available for analysis increasing rapidly by orders of magnitude, new analytical tools are increasingly able to gain new and important insights into the past, present and future that were not available before.

Many areas of human endeavor benefit from Big Data. Science and research has certainly seen a gain, with examples including the Large Hadron Collider using hundreds of millions of data points per second to find the Higgs Boson and DNA sequencing now taking less than a week to complete. So have many private sector companies, such as Walmart, Facebook and Amazon, now better able to discover trends and exploit normally hidden shopper idiosyncrasies in order to drive revenue and profit. And of course Uncle Sam is getting in on the Big Data action, with the construction in Utah of a massively powerful data center for the NSA that will be able to handle Yottabytes of internet data. The result of all this is an industry now valued at $100 Billion, growing at 10% a year.

Solutions Review is quite interested in covering this quickly evolving topic. However, we face a conundrum in trying to organize Big Data, which is, well, big. Too big for a single category, at least. So, as with any overly complex problem, the first step is to break it down into its constituent parts. Solutions Review is therefore launching our newest category, Data Integration – perhaps the most vital solution needed to take advantage of Big Data.

First, a description of what we mean by Data Integration in terms of the specific tools you will need. In order to take advantage of Big Data, you have to be able to have access to all of that data, no matter its physical/virtual location and structure. Data Federation Technology, also called Data Virtualization Technology or Data Federation Services, offers a way to access information about your information, called Metadata, across all parts of your organization, no matter how or where it’s stored. You can also set up a Data Federation solution to enable queries over multiple data sources, ensure data integrity, manage transactions and enable an integrated, real-time view of all data across the enterprise. This is done through mapping all data you want federated into a virtual database.

Accessing data doesn’t just mean having a unified view of it all, however. For practical purposes of crunching all that data, it needs to be in one place where your analytics program can reach it. That involves “moving” data (more like copying and pasting, actually) from one place to another, usually from storage systems into a Data Warehouse capable of analyzing it. Methods for doing just that include processes called ETL (for Extract, Transform and Load) and Data Replication, the latter of which, while often used for tasks like disaster recovery and data migration, in relation to big data offers a high performance data movement tool that should be able to quickly synchronize large quantities of data.

In order to conceptualize the ETL and Data Replication processes, people in the Data Integration space usually refer to where the Data is stored at the start of the process as the source or sources, whereas where you want to move/copy the data to is the target or targets. ETL tools are your basic data movement tools, which extract all the data files selected from the source, transform them into a structure readable by the target and Business Intelligence Applications on the target, and then load the transformed data into the target. ETL tools are good at moving large quantities of data all at once in what is called a batch.

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They also do a good job when significant transformation of the data is required before loading into the target.

ETL on its own can have trouble handling certain situations, however. If data in the source is changing in real-time, you may need to be able to analyze that data quickly and perhaps in real-time as well. Because ETL loads everything from the source into the target all at once during a batch transfer, the target can experience down-times for hours while the data is loaded. The more data you need to move, the more down-time. If the target isn’t supposed to be used for long periods of time, like at night, and if you don’t require immediate analysis of new/changed data, then that down-time may not be an issue. However, you could still be wasting time and money if much of the data that your ETL tool is extracting from the source is already in the target from a previous batch load.

So, for those with high-performance requirements and a need to increase the efficiency of data transfer, a data replication solution will be a necessary add-on. Most data replication solutions will contain a Change-Data-Capture (CDC) module which captures changes made in source systems and then replicates that change into a target system, keeping the databases synchronized. In some cases, the CDC tool can be sold separately from the rest of the data replication package. Other parts of a data replication solution can include schema and DDL replication, an easy to manage user interface, and software and hardware architecture designed for moving large amounts of data very quickly without creating down-time for your sources or targets or interfering with the ability of your enterprise applications to keep running. This same capability can also ensure that in the event of a crash, your company has the most up to date data with which to pick up the pieces. In addition, good data replication solutions should be fully automated in order to optimize IT productivity and save costs on professional service needs.

Data replication can have drawbacks, however. An enterprise data replication solution can cost many tens of thousands of dollars, placing the capability out of reach for many smaller companies. Additionally, many data replication solutions are not very good at the transformation task that’s often needed when moving data from sources to targets. The result is that you need to piggyback the replication solution on top of an ETL solution, and not all replication solutions work with all ETL solutions. In fact, it’s best to think of data replication not as a replacement for ETL, but as a complementary solution. Both processes will be needed in executing the data integration part of your Big Data strategy.

To recap, we’ve covered the Federation, ETL and Replication tools for the data integration space. For the purposes of keeping the topic of data integration as narrow as possible, we at Solutions Review are going to limit the Data Integration site, solutions directory and buyers guide to just those three solutions types. This obviously ignores the physical databases and warehouses that store and process data, as well as the business intelligence platforms and applications needed to get value out of all that data, along with a whole host of other technologies that go into the big data environment. These will be topics we will revisit in other sections of our Big Data suite over the coming months.

Matt Adamson

Editor, Solutions Review

madamson@solutions-review.com (339) 927-9237

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5 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Selecting a

Data Integration Solution

QUESTION #1 What are the business and technical needs driving my interest in data integration?

In other words, why do you need to integrate your data? The nature of the application needing that data, such as a BI/Analytics program, and what you need that program to do will determine many of the technical requirements of the data integration solution you need. Will you require real-time data access and transfer? How much data will you need to move and how quickly? Can you afford some down-time on source/target systems, or do you need them running at all times? Note all these data requirements based off of your technical and business needs so that you can compare them with what prospective solutions offer.

QUESTION #2 What IT resources are available to implement, run and maintain the solution?

Of course, this doesn’t just refer to your IT budget. Your IT people’s time and skills will also need to align with any data integration solution, as implementation, operation and maintenance time and costs are key considerations. If the data integration solution is sucking up your IT Department’s time, problems can go unfixed and ROI on multiple IT projects could suffer.

QUESTION #3 What are my data sources? And where are they located – on-premise or in the Cloud?

The basic elements of data integration revolve around moving data from sources (applications) to targets (data warehouses, etc.). Much of what is powering the Big Data movement is the massive data being collected in the cloud through very large Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions like Saleforce.com. Some solutions listed in this buyers guide specialize in the integration of cloud application data with on-premise systems to ensure that your users can access complete, current, and accurate data. Make sure the kind of integration you require is being offered by the vendors you are considering.

QUESTION #4 What size company do I want to work with?

The following list of data integration solution providers contains some of the largest technology companies in the world. It also contains young, small and aggressive companies that may bring a very different sales and service mindset to the table. Have an idea going into the buying cycle, which type of vendor you are interested in working with. You may also find that working with a value added resellers may be the best option as you build a relationship. Remember, the vendors you pick today, may be the partners you can’t live without in a few short years.

QUESTION #5 Do I just want a tool or do I want a whole platform?

You may think you just need a tool that moves data from sources to a target. But the Big Data revolution is bringing big investments from venture capitalists into the data integration space. And now solution providers are building bigger technology with more features. Data integration is just one of the many features you can now get through a platform that will cost essentially the same money. What about other needs like data auditing, data analysis, data quality, data migration, etc. Go into any solution search with a larger sense of what else you might need or want and see whether a platform may make more sense in the long run.

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And 5 Questions You Should Ask Your Potential Data

Integration Provider Before Selecting a Solution

QUESTION #6 What is the true total cost of the solution?

The real cost of a solution isn’t just going to include the upfront sticker price, of course. Also determine direct and incidental implementation, maintenance, operational and support costs. Just as important, determine the cost in case some part(s) of the process goes awry, such as an implementation that falls behind schedule or requires more IT resources than planned to run. In addition, watch out for hidden fees buried in vendor contracts.

QUESTION #7 Do the technical capabilities of the solution match my business needs?

In other words, does the solution do what you need it to do? This question syncs up with the very first question you should already have asked yourself, which is determining what exactly it is you need out of a solution. Now, you can go down your check-list to see if the solutions’ capabilities match or exceed what you require.

QUESTION #8 Is the solution compatible with my current technology environment?

This question syncs up with the fourth question about your own organization, creating a list of software and hardware systems the solution will need to integrate with and understanding what specifics a solution will need in order to integrate. Once again, the result is you’ll have a check-list of requirements you can go through in order to ensure systems compatibility.

QUESTION #9 How easy is the solution to use?

A powerful data integration tool could wind up performing not so well if your IT personnel have trouble using it. For more complex solutions training is a must, and even then tool operation can

take significant amounts of time that would be better spent elsewhere. Solutions that offer simple to use interfaces, like drag-and-drop can offer you personnel flexibility when operating the tool, up to and including line-of-business managers while saving the IT Department’s time for other projects and problems.

QUESTION #10 How scalable is the solution?

Your current data sources and volumes will not remain static. Both are expected to increase in number substantially going forward. You will therefore need to consider how easily a data integration solution can handle new sources and increased volumes of data. Related to this is how scalable the application that is using that data is. An un-scalable business application will render a very scalable data integration tool useless, at least on that metric.

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Data Integration Tools and Software Solution Providers

Actian / Pervasive _______________________________________________________________________ 7

Adeptia _______________________________________________________________________ 7

Altova _______________________________________________________________________ 8

Astera _____________________________________________________________________ 8

Attivio ______________________________________________________________________ 9

Attunity ______________________________________________________________________ 9

CloverETL ______________________________________________________________________ 10

Dell Boomi ______________________________________________________________________ 10

HiT Software ______________________________________________________________________ 11

HVR Software ______________________________________________________________________ 11

IBM ______________________________________________________________________ 12

Informatica ______________________________________________________________________ 12

Information Builders ______________________________________________________________________ 13

Jitterbit ______________________________________________________________________ 13

Microsoft ______________________________________________________________________ 14

Oracle ______________________________________________________________________ 14

Pentaho ______________________________________________________________________ 15

Progress Software ______________________________________________________________________ 15

SAP ______________________________________________________________________ 16

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SnapLogic ______________________________________________________________________ 17

Software AG ______________________________________________________________________ 17

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FROM THE

COMPANY:

Actian Corporation enables organizations to transform big data into business value with data management solutions to Connect, Analyze, and take automated Action across their business operations. Actian’s innovative portfolio of solutions for big data include cloud integration for frictionless connection to any data; analytical solutions specifically engineered to handle the extreme speed and scale of data intensive computing.

In January 2013, Actian acquired Pervasive Software - a database integration software solution. Whether designing integration processes for data warehouse loading, converting data between formats, deploying complex application integration scenarios, or integrating applications both on-premises and in the cloud, Pervasive Data Integrator includes numerous foundation features that accelerate the creation of flexible integration solutions.

MORE DETAIL: Pervasive Data Integrator includes locally installed as well as cloud-based visual designers as well as Drag-and-Drop Link-Style Mapper, RIA Browser–Based User Interface, Lifecycle Management, SOA Platform, Cloud-to-Cloud Computing Interchangeable and Reusable Metadata.

BEST LINK: http://integration.pervasive.com/solutions/data-integration-services.aspx

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Adeptia was founded in June 2000, with the aim of taking business process management and integration to a broader market. Adeptia Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) Suite combines data transport with powerful metadata management and data transformation capability. It uses Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and a process-based model to create flexible and loosely-coupled data flows that suit any aggregation or data warehousing solutions.

ETL Suite offers a powerful middleware application to document, automate and execute critical data processes especially for creating and populating data marts from various internal or external data sources. This allows data to be received from multiple sources in different formats and mapped to a common database schema. This enterprise-class software allows companies to centrally manage their data schema and mapping rules in a central repository and directly archive those rules in PDF documents for easy sign-off.

MORE DETAIL: Adeptia ETL Suite supports ANY TO ANY conversion. Flat file to XML, XML to CSV, Any Database to XML, Excel to Database, XML to EDI, HIPAA to XML, HL7 to XML, Date format, string, numerical conversions etc.

BEST LINK: http://www.adeptia.com/products/data_transformation.html

Actian / Pervasive Software

12365 Riata Trace Pkwy # B

Austin, TX 78727-6418

USA

Tel: +1 888-296-5969

www.pervasive.com

Adeptia Inc.

443 North Clark Street

Suite 350

Chicago, IL 60654

USA

Tel: +1 312- 229-1727

www.adeptia.com

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FROM THE

COMPANY:

Altova is a software company specializing in tools to assist developers with data management, software and application development, and data integration. The creator of XMLSpy® and other XML, SQL, and UML tools, Altova is a key player in the software tools industry and a leader in XML solution development tools.

Altova MissionKit data integration tools provide powerful data integration capabilities that are easy to access via a graphical, drag-and- drop data mapping design. All of today’s prevalent data formats, including all major relational databases, are supported in one, affordable solution.

Generation of royalty-free C#, C++, Java, XSLT, and XQuery code for automating data integration projects, plus optional integration with Visual Studio and Eclipse, give you flexible development and deployment options at no extra cost.

MORE DETAIL: Altova MissionKit database tools include support for all major relational databases in their native interface language: Microsoft® SQL Server® 2000, 2005, 2008, IBM DB2® 8, 9, IBM DB2 for iSeries® v5.4, 6.1, Oracle® 9i, 10g, 11g, Sybase® 12, MySQL® 4, 5, PostgreSQL 8, Microsoft Access™ 2003, 2007

BEST LINK: http://www.altova.com/solutions/data-integration.html

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COMPANY:

Founded in 2010, Astera Software specializes in delivering data integration solutions. Astera's products, acclaimed for their ease of use and intuitiveness, are especially popular among data professionals engaged in complex data extractions and integration.

Astera Software is a leading provider of data integration solutions through its Centerprise Data Integration platform. Centerprise RTE brings real-time change Data Capture (CDC), built-in web services, and a service-oriented architecture (SOA) integration approach to enterprises of all sizes. Companies can use Centerprise for multiple data delivery methods including batch, real-time, and SOA, utilizing the integration methodology that works best for their specific integration requirement.

MORE DETAIL: Centerprise RTE supports publisher-subscriber based real-time change data capture for popular databases including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Teradata, Sybase, and MySQL. Additionally, Centerprise supports real-time integration with Salesforce.com via Salesforce workflow.

BEST LINK: http://www.astera.com/centerprise

Astera Software

2655 First St., #250

Simi Valley, CA 93065-1548

USA

Tel: +1 888-772-7837

www.astera.com

Altova, Inc

900 Cummings Center

Suite 314T

Beverly, MA 01915-6181

USA

Tel: +1 978-816-1600

www.altova.com

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FROM THE

COMPANY:

Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine® (AIE®) seamlessly unifies the worlds of structured and semi-structured data, Big Data and unstructured content. AIE integrates, joins and correlates all enterprise information within its universal index, providing vital information insights with unprecedented agility.

Schema-less indexing of all data and content. Unlike traditional data warehouses or other information systems, AIE does not require defining data structures and relationships between data and/or content in advance. AIE's schema-less universal index eliminates the time-consuming process of modifying data models to accommodate new sources of information.

Attivio’s Active Intelligence Engine® (AIE®) can ingest both structured and semi-structured data, Big Data and unstructured content, from a wide variety of databases, document repositories, content management systems, email systems, websites, social media and file servers, without the need for costly, time consuming extract, transform and load (ETL) processing.

MORE DETAIL: Attivio includes out-of-the-box connectors to relational databases, file content, XML and CSV data. Optional application-specific connectors are available for Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, EMC Documentum Content Server, website harvesting, and Hadoop.

BEST LINK: http://www.attivio.com/products/active-intelligence-engine-aie.html

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COMPANY:

Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ: ATTU) is a leading enterprise-class software provider empowering some of the world’s largest companies with the solutions to seamlessly and efficiently connect, transfer and join to and from virtually any data source. Attunity solutions identify critical changes in real-time, and subsequently service-enable that data for use in modern, rapid-to-deploy and re-configurable business applications.

The Attunity Integration Suite (AIS) consists of three primary products: Attunity Connect, a real-time connectivity software, Attunity Stream, a log-based, real-time change-data-capture software, and Attunity Federate, virtual data federation for Enterprise Information Integration (EII).

MORE DETAIL: Attunity Replicate’s “Zero Footprint” architecture means that no agents must be placed on the source or target, eliminating overhead for mission-critical systems. In addition, every step of the replication process is automated and the Click-2-Replicate user interface offers drag-and-drop functionality. That means that IT teams don’t need master DBA skills to install and use the product.

BEST LINK: http://www.attunity.com/solutions/realtime-data-integration

Attivio Inc.

275 Grove Street

Newton, MA 02466

USA

Tel: +1 857-226-5041

www.attivio.com

Attunity, Inc.

70 Blanchard Road

Burlington, MA 01803

USA

Tel: +1 866-288-8648

www.attunity.com

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FROM THE

COMPANY:

Javlin is a provider of data integration software and solutions for mass data processing. CloverETL began as an open source project by founder and Javlin president David Pavlis in 2002. CloverETL, provides users the ability to manage data solutions such as integration, migration, cleansing, audit, synchronization, consolidation, Master Data Management and data warehousing.

The CloverETL product is platform independent and scalable with a smooth upgrade path. It is also easily embeddable thanks to its small footprint. The CloverETL Open Source Engine is a core Java library that powers all CloverETL products. It provides the execution base for data transformations, a core set of transformation components, and a multi-threaded execution model. Commercial editions come with an enhanced engine with additional components and Server support.

MORE DETAIL: CloverETL is Java based. Supported platforms include Windows, Unix, Linux, OSX, and many others. It utilizes XML-based resources—All resources, such as graphs, metadata, shared connections, etc., are stored in an XML format. Thus, transformations may also be generated (by anything able to create a XML file.

BEST LINK: http://www.cloveretl.com/products

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COMPANY:

Dell Boomi, a business unit of Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), is and integration solution built in the cloud, to fully exploit the value of the cloud.

Boomi AtomSphere delivers enterprise-class integration capabilities without the complexity. Complete application integration requires a lot more than just “data mapping”. Boomi AtomSphere delivers high-end integration capabilities such as content-based routing, process flow control, exception handling, and messaging that take you well beyond just data mapping. Using our Visual Integration Technology, we take care of the complexity that would typically require developers: deciphering complex APIs, developing web services, deploying SOAP or REST technology, or even deploying a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It’s all handled through one simple to use, visual interface.

MORE DETAIL: Dell Boomi provides navigation between master data management, data integration and data quality services (DQS) in a single interface. Centralized user and role management and single sign-on brings ease of use to the data management and data integration process.

BEST LINK: http://www.boomi.com/products

Javlin, Inc.

2111 Wilson Blvd, Suite 700

Arlington, VA 22201

USA

Tel: +1 703- 259-8585

www.cloveretl.com

Dell Boomi Headquarters

801 Cassatt Road

Suite 111

Berwyn, PA 19312

USA

Tel: +1 800-732-3602

www.boomi.com

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FROM THE

COMPANY:

HiT Software, a BackOffice Associates, LLC Company based in San Jose, CA, is the leading provider of Change Data Capture and Data Integration products for a broad range of relational databases. HiT Software’s standards-based products provide access to critical data, enable data availability and offer programming-free data integration across enterprise systems.

HiT Software products perform real-time, bi-directional replication between all major databases; provide real-time, bi-directional transformation between XML and all major databases; and connect applications to IBM DB2 databases via .NET, OLE DB, ODBC and JDBC standards. Change Data Capture is a feature available to all BackOffice Data Migration and Information Governance implementations that require expedited data updates and near real-time data availability.

MORE DETAIL: HiT Software® products provide support for data management and real-time access to all major databases, such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Informix, Sybase and IBM DB2 (AS400, LUW/UDB, mainframe).

BEST LINK: http://www.hitsw.com/solutions/operational_data_movement.html

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COMPANY:

HVR Software concentrates on developing HVR, an open and standard based Realtime Data Integration platform.

HVR Software supplies three innovative products for mission-critical environments; HVR Realtime Data Integration, HVR Managed File Transfer and HVR Compare and Refresh. These products cover distinct functional areas but share important common elements; an efficient network streaming architecture, a flexible feature framework and an intuitive Graphical User Interface.

HVR’s performance and scalability allows it to replicate very large databases in real-time. And its elegant design and rich functionality means difficult replication schemes can be implemented with minimum effort. Strong tools are provided for comparing and refreshing replicated tables and for monitoring replication scheduling.

MORE DETAIL: HVR can connect different Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) Systems in real-time, such as a link between a back-office system and an internet database. HVR supports multiple database solutions. It is possible to replicate between Oracle, SQL Server and Ingres database as well as perform file-replication and bridging to XML-based webservices.

BEST LINK: http://www.hvr-software.com/solutions/enterprise/

HiT Software, Inc.

4040 Moorpark Avenue

Suite 221

San Jose, CA 95117

USA

Tel: +1 408-345-4001

www.hitsw.com

HVR Software Worldwide

Daalwijkdreef 47

1103 AD Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Tel: +31 (0) 20 820 1570

www.hvr-software.com

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FROM THE

COMPANY:

IBM InfoSphere Information Server provides a rich set of information integration and governance capabilities that enable you to integrate big data with your traditional enterprise data and gain critical business insights. The end-to-end information integration capabilities of InfoSphere Information Server allow you to understand your data, cleanse, monitor, transform, and deliver data.

Included components: (1) InfoSphere DataStage - Integrates data across multiple and high volumes of data sources and target applications. (2) InfoSphere QualityStage - Ensures systems deliver accurate, complete information to business users across the enterprise. (3) InfoSphere Business Glossary - Enables users to create, manage and share an enterprise vocabulary and classification system.

MORE DETAIL: IBM InfoSphere can integrate to databases such as its own InfoSphere Warehouse Enterprise (based on IBM DB2), IBM’s Big Data Analytics solution Netezza, SQL, Oracle and other databases or the Enterprise Service Bus or message brokers such as MQ series.

BEST LINK: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/info-server/overview/

FROM THE

COMPANY:

Informatica is a leading provider of data integration software. Informatica’s enterprise data integration and management solutions and both mainframe and cloud based and include data governance, data migration, data quality, data synchronization and data warehousing.

The Informatica enterprise data integration product family is scalable, high-performance enterprise data integration software. These products access and integrate data from virtually any business system, in any format, and deliver that data throughout the enterprise at any speed. The Informatica Platform enables a wide variety of complex enterprise-wide data integration initiatives through the following technologies: Enterprise Data Integration, Data Quality, Master Data Management ("MDM"), B2B Data Exchange, Application Information Lifecycle Management ("ILM"), Complex Event Processing, Ultra Messaging, and Cloud Data Integration.

MORE DETAIL: Informatica’s mainframe data integration solutions are designed to interoperate with Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica PowerExchange on Linux, UNIX, and Windows platforms. Informatica Cloud connects to a wide variety of on-premise and cloud-based applications—including enterprise applications, databases, flat files, file feeds, and even social networking sites.

BEST LINK: http://www.informatica.com/us/products/enterprise-data-integration/

IBM

1 New Orchard Road

Armonk, NY 10504

USA

Tel: +1 877-426-3774

www.ibm.com

Informatica Corporation

100 Cardinal Way

Redwood City, CA 94063

USA

Tel: +1 650-385-5000

www.informatica.com

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FROM THE

COMPANY:

Founded in 1975, Information Builders helps organizations transform data into business value. Our software solutions for business intelligence and analytics, integration, and data integrity empower people to make smarter decisions, strengthen customer relationships, and drive growth.

With tools for real-time data integration, data movement and delivery, and data federation, Information Builders enables organizations to manage both structured and unstructured information. Highly scalable, the company’s iWay tools accelerate the deployment of data integration projects such as extract, transform, and load (ETL); enterprise information integration (EII) initiatives; and big data integration.

MORE DETAIL: Instead of requiring physical data movement, Information Builders enables WebFOCUS users to issue distributed queries that correlate and manipulate data from disparate relational databases, packaged applications, structured data files such as XML and EDI documents, and legacy databases and files.

BEST LINK: http://www.informationbuilders.com/products/integration/data_integration

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COMPANY:

Jitterbit creates open source integration software that aims to overcome the challenges of cost and complexity associated with connecting applications, data and systems.

Jitterbit’s open source integration solution is a graphical platform for connecting legacy, enterprise and On-Demand applications, including Business Process Fusion, ETL, SaaS, and SOA.

The Jitterbit Open Source Integration Platform also makes use of sharable integration templates called Jitterpaks that allow the community to reuse common integrations with the most popular web services, application APIs, and databases.

Jitterbit’s graphical “No-Coding” approach simplifies the configuration and management of otherwise complex integration projects.

MORE DETAIL: Available in the cloud or on-premise, Jitterbit automatically discovers system configurations and allows non-technical users to point and click to define source & target systems, drag and drop to map data transformations, and run integration operations on batch, trickle or real-time schedules.

BEST LINK: http://www.jitterbit.com/integrate/

Information Builders

Two Penn Plaza

New York, NY 10121-2898

USA

Tel: +1 212-736-4433

www.informationbuilders.com

Jitterbit

1 Kaiser Plaza

Suite 701

Oakland, CA 94612

USA

Tel: +1 877-852-3500

www.jitterbit.com

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FROM THE

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Microsoft SQL Server is a cloud-ready, information platform that will help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organizations and quickly build solutions to extend data across on-premises and public cloud.

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is Microsoft’s Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) tool and is provided with SQL Server. SSIS provides a set of built-in tasks, containers, transformations, and data adapters that support the development of business applications. Without writing a single line of code, you can create SSIS solutions that solve complex business problems using ETL and business intelligence, manage SQL Server databases, and copy SQL Server objects between instances of SQL Server.

MORE DETAIL: The runtime environment of SSIS consists of 2 engines, the Runtime Engine and the Dataflow Engine. A package consists of tasks (one of which is the all-important Dataflow Task) and containers. The development tool for SSIS is Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS).

BEST LINK: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/solutions-technologies/enterprise-information-management/integration-services.aspx

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COMPANY:

Oracle Data Integrator is a comprehensive data integration platform that covers all data integration requirements: from high-volume, high-performance batch loads, to event-driven, trickle-feed integration processes, to SOA-enabled data services. It is fully integrated with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, and Exadata as well as out-of-box integration with ERPs, CRMs, B2B systems, flat files, XML data, LDAP, JDBC, and ODBC.

Oracle Data Integration delivers bulk or real-time data from heterogeneous systems; Log-based real-time change data capture (CDC) for minimizing impact on source systems; Eliminating middle-tier transformation server for reduced TCO. Oracle's data integration solutions are optimized and certified for Oracle Exadata and can speed data loads to Exadata by 500%.

MORE DETAIL: Instead of relying on a separate, conventional ETL transformation server, Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition’s E-LT architecture generates native code for disparate RDBMS engines (SQL, bulk loader scripts, for example). E-LT architecture extracts data from sources, loads it into a target, and transforms it using the database power.

BEST LINK: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/data-integration/overview/index.html

Microsoft

One Microsoft Way

Redmond, WA 98052-7329

USA

Tel: +1 425-882-8080

www.microsoft.com

Oracle Corporation

500 Oracle Parkway

Redwood Shores, CA 94065

USA

Tel: +1 650-506-7000

www.oracle.com

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Founded in 2005, Pentaho tightly couples data integration with complete business analytics for big data, supporting Hadoop, NoSQL, and Analytic databases. Pentaho provides a full big data analytics solution that supports the entire big data analytics process from ETL and data integration to real-time analysis and big data visualization.

Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) enables organizations to extract data from complex and heterogeneous sources and create consistent, high quality information for critical business applications. With a rich graphical user interface and a parallel processing engine, PDI offers high performance ETL (extract, transform, and load) that covers all data integration needs.

MORE DETAIL: Pentaho offers a multi-threaded engine, data partitioning support and clustered execution options. Options for scaling out ETL jobs across a cluster of PDI servers or by executing jobs in Hadoop. In-memory caching, dynamic lookups, and parallel bulk-loaders.

BEST LINK: http://www.pentaho.com/explore/pentaho-data-integration/

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Progress Software supplies products for application development, SaaS enablement, cloud deployment, complex event processing (CEP), data connectivity and real time decision management to solution partners and end users.

Progress® DataXtend® is a data integration platform for service-oriented architecture that provides tools to help you ensure the free flow of information across your organization. Progress® DataXtend® Semantic Integrator (SI), the principal solution in this robust software suite, addresses the common information model challenges in SOA infrastructure and provides a way to ensure that data is not only correct, but that it is valid based on your business rules.

MORE DETAIL: Progress Software includes a complete graphical design environment for creating and managing Exchange Models, rules and data integration services as well as DataXtend® SI Engine™, a runtime component of the DataXtend SI integration platform that dynamically converts and validates data before it is submitted to backend solutions.

BEST LINK: http://www.progress.com/en/data-integration-platform.html

Pentaho Corporation

Citadel International

5950 Hazeltine National Dr.

Orlando, FL 32822

USA

Tel. +1 407 812-6736

www.pentaho.com

Progress Software

14 Oak Park Drive

Bedford, MA 01730

USA

Tel: +1 781-280-4000

www.progress.com

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SAP (NYSE: SAP) is the market and technology leader in business management software, solutions, services for improving your business process. The company's best-known software products are its enterprise resource planning application systems.

SAP® BusinessObjects™ Integration software provides direct connectivity to enterprise applications. This enables you to consolidate and transform vast amounts of data into reports, analyses, visualizations, and dashboards while helping ensure data security and compliance. With SAP BusinessObjects Integration, your organization can leverage a single business intelligence (BI) solution for better-informed, faster decision making and business performance optimization.

MORE DETAIL: Data Integrator delivers ETL scalability with support for parallel processing, grid computing, real-time data movement, and broad source and target support. This open and services-based architecture allows you to integrate with thirdparty products using industry standard protocols such as CWM, XML, HTTP/HTTPS, JMS, SNMP, and Web services.

BEST LINK: http://www54.sap.com/pc/tech/enterprise-information-management/software/overview/data-integration.html

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SAS is a leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market.

SAS Data Integration provides capabilities for enterprise data access and processing across systems and platforms; integrated data quality and an interactive, visual data integration development environment that enables collaboration and easy reusability, all with a single point of IT administration.

SAS Data Management Advanced enables organizations to extract, transform and load (ETL) data from across many different sources to create consistent, accurate information. A point-and-click process design desktop makes it easy to build logical workflows, quickly identify input and output data flows, and create business rules in metadata.

MORE DETAIL: Organizations can take advantage of a grid-enabled, load-balanced, multithreaded parallel processing architecture that can quickly transform and move data between different platforms and systems. SAS also supports zero data movement by using SQL pass-through into popular database appliances, including Oracle, DB2, Teradata, Netezza, SQL Server, Aster and Hadoop.

BEST LINK: http://www.sas.com/technologies/dw/

SAS Institute Inc.

100 SAS Campus Drive

Cary, NC 27513-2414

USA

Tel: +1 919-677-8000

www.sas.com

SAP AG

Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16

(früher: Neurottstraße)

69190 Walldorf

Germany

Tel: +49 (0) 6227 / 7-47474

www.sap.com

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SnapLogic is a leader in enterprise cloud integration, transforming how companies integrate business applications on-premise and in the cloud. With the SnapLogic Integration Platform, organizations can easily and securely connect a variety of applications or data sources together, while achieving radically better performance and faster implementations than with traditional integration technologies.

Traditional enterprise data integration systems were designed to extract business data in batches from a handful of applications and then load them into a data warehouse over the corporate LAN. Today the Internet is the network, many business data integration points stream in real-time, and the number and diversity of new data sources grows each day. SnapLogic goes beyond traditional extract, transform, and load (ETL) capabilities by offering discoverable, callable, and reusable data integration services.

MORE DETAIL: SnapLogic employes a 100% Web-Oriented Architecture that speaks the language of the web and traditional databases. Includes REST data services with unlimited API calls and full support for web data formats (XML, JSON, ASN.1, Atom, HTML and more).

BEST LINK: http://www.snaplogic.com/what-we-do/solutions/enterprise-data-integration.php

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Founded in 1969, Software AG is a global leader in business processes, integration and big data. Software AG brands, ARIS, webMethods, Adabas, Natural, CentraSite, Terracotta and IDS Scheer Consulting, represent a portfolio encompassing: process strategy, design, integration and control; SOA-based integration and data management and efficient management of big data.

WebMethods ConnecX is software that integrates enterprise data with existing and new applications by providing real-time, SQL-based access to relational and non-relational data sources. Data can be accessed as if it were stored in one relational database—even though it may come from different applications, Web services and other data sources. You can make data immediately available directly from the source by creating a “virtual” data warehouse.

MORE DETAIL: WebMethods ConnecX provides single view of data from non-relational and relational databases, including: Adabas, VSAM, C-ISAM, DISAM, RMS, DataFlex, Powerflex, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, RDB and Sybase. Related data from different sources appears as one logical table.

BEST LINK: http://www.softwareag.com/corporate/products/wm/mainframe_integration/connecx/overview/default.asp

SnapLogic Inc.

71 East Third Avenue

San Mateo California, 94401

USA

Tel: +1 650-525-500

www.snaplogic.com

Software AG

Uhlandstr. 12

D-64297 Darmstadt

Germany

Tel: +49 6151 92-0

www.softwareag.com

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Syncsort Incorporated is a software company specializing in high speed sorting products, as well as data integration and backup software and services, for Windows, Unix, Linux, and mainframe systems.

DMExpress Syncsort’s flagship data integration product is the fastest version with high-performance compression technology and high-performance join algorithms. All of the components required for data integration acceleration are included in this comprehensive edition. DMExpress also contains new capabilities, such as Metadata Interchange, allowing you to easily import jobs from other platforms, such as Informatica and IBM DataStage, to accelerate deployment.

MORE DETAIL: DMExpress eliminates data latency by reducing CPU time, elapsed time, and disk I/O activity while utilizing minimal resources on commodity hardware. It also shortens deployment and development timeframes by leveraging a graphical, drag and drop development environment. DMExpress utilizes proprietary sorting algorithms, I/O optimization, parallel processing, and dynamic environmental monitoring techniques.

BEST LINK: http://www.syncsort.com/Solutions/DataIntegrationAcceleration.aspx

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Founded in 2005, Talend is an open source software vendor that provides data integration, data management, enterprise application integration and big data software and solutions.

Talend’s data integration products provide an extensible, highly-performant, open source set of tools to access, transform and integrate data from any business system in real time or batch to meet both operational and analytical data integration needs.

With 450+ connectors, it integrates almost any data source. The broad range of use cases addressed include: massive scale integration (big data/ NoSQL), ETL for business intelligence and data warehousing, data synchronization, data migration, data sharing, and data services.

MORE DETAIL: Talend connects natively to databases, packaged applications (ERP, CRM, etc.), SaaS and Cloud applications, mainframes, files, Web services, data warehouses, data marts, and OLAP applications.

BEST LINK: http://www.talend.com/products/data-integration

Syncsort, Inc.

50 Tice Boulevard, Suite 250

Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677

USA

Tel. +1 201-930-9700

www.syncsort.com

Talend SA

9 rue Pagès

92150 Suresnes

France

Tel: +33 1 46 25 06 00

www.talend.com