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  Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) Products
 

There is wide range of Products available in this category.
There is an overlap with other categories, such as Data Cleansing, and most of these Products occupy an expensive niche. They are all fighting a war of attrition against Microsoft's DTS (qv), and risking obsolescence sooner or later.
If you have any comments, experiences or suggestions, please let me know.


  Here is a list of some Products
 

Use these Links to choose the Product that's right for you.
 
VENDOR PRICE PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Ab Initio   Good for Profiling.
Ascential DataStage   Offered as part of a comprehensive ETL Suite.
An IBM Company and renamed as part of the WebSphere family.
Business Objects   Data Integrator
CA Advantage   Data Transformation.
Cognos 8   Decision Stream
Data Junction   Now part of Pervasive, and called the Pervasive Data Integrater.
Data Habitat   ZeroCode ETL - Recommended if you work with SQL Server.
Data Mirror   Data Mirror offers an Integration Suite and Transformation Server
Embarcadero   DT/Studio
ETI   Evolutionary Technologies International - based on COBOL !
Hummingbird   Integration Suite
IBM DB2   Offers a Data Integration Suite and Data Warehouse Manager.
Informatica   'PowerCenter' and MetaData Exchange, (including ERWin Data Models), and 'SuperGlue' for MetaData Analysis.
Information Builders   'iWay - the Foundation for SOA'
Microsoft SQL Server   'Data Transformation Services' (DTS)
Oracle   This BI Warehouse Builder page is a good starting-point.
Pervasive   Data Integrater, also offers a Data Profiler.
SAS   ETL Enterprise Server. ,also supports Master Data Management.
Sunopsis   Data Conductor - "Positioned as 'Visionary' in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for ETL." Also offers an Active Integration Platform.
 

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