Thursday, October 21, 2010

Sneak Peek into expressor's new & free data integration application, expressor Studio

I had a chance to attend the launch event webinar of expressor's new & free data integration application, expressor Studio. To be clear, the version that was previewed is a beta version and GA of this new tool is not expected until the end of this year.

expressor has been around for some time now and hence it is expected that the core of its product will not change much. This release is more geared towards the developer application expressor Studio. Expressor Repository and expressor Data Processing Engine remain more or less the same. The free version of the software though will include both the Studio and the Data Processing Engine.

The improvements, or it should rather be said that rewrite, is mostly restricted to Studio. However, the improvements over the last version are pretty significant and it would be well appreciated by those who are currently using expressor in their data integration projects.

Some of the most significant improvements coming with this release are;

  • MS Office style user interface that uses ribbon design quite heavily. It would be especially liked by those who play with SQL Server day in and out
  • Like MS Office, tasks on the right hand side give you cues for what needs to be completed
  • Notion of Projects and Libraries to allow greater reuse of components
  • Simple drag & drop functionality to create mappings and data flows
  • Background validation
  • User friendly transform editor with the ability to modify the Lua datascripts
This is in addition to some of the core features that expressor provides in its platform, like;
Beta version of this release will be available November 1 at www.ExpressorStudio.com. At the cost of free it is an excellent product to get started on small and mid size data integration projects. 

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