Earlier this month, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010. Along with VS 2010, Microsoft also released version 4.0. .Net 4.0 brings new features and improvements in a number of areas. Centerprise team has been working on a major new upgrade for some time now. Last fall, when Microsoft released preview version of Visual Studio 2010, we evaluated it and decided to develop next version of Centerprise on .Net 4.0.
For the next generation of Centerprise product, our key goals are:
• Powerful data integration functionality including enterprise grade dataflow and workflow designers, first class support for dimension and fact table loading, and extensive data quality features.
• A Highly parallel data integration engine that would scale to take advantage of increasingly larger number of CPUs and cores in today’s machine and deliver the performance and throughput that can handle very large data sets.
• An extensible platform that makes it easy to add new sources, destinations, transformations, and functions easily while providing a secure runtime environment.
Centerprise has been a parallel processing engine since version 2.0. We have always focused on performance and scalability as a key design goal. Centerprise’s parallel framework has provided an excellent foundation the integration engine. Employing the new parallel programming extensions in .Net 4.0, we have made substantial improvements to our framework and the entire product has become significantly more efficient and scalable. Parallelism pervades every aspect of the data integration engine including new multithreaded algorithms for sorting, file reading and parsing, database writes, profiling, and transformations such as join, lookup, aggregation and others.
We are planning to use .Net extensibility framework in future versions of Centerprise to provide a secure and powerful platform for customers and third party developers. This includes the ability to add new data sources, transformations, and workflow tasks.
Hermes will also feature extensive set of .Net APIs to enable our customers and partners integrate Centerprise as part of their solutions. This includes triggering and monitoring jobs, creation of function, custom transformations, addition of new data sources and destinations, and much more.
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