Archive for April 2010

Upcoming Centerprise Upgrade and Microsoft.Net 4.0

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 [...]

New Workflow Coming to Centerprise

As you may know, we’re busy working on the next edition of Centerprise Data Integrator.  Part of that effort includes a brand new way we will be handling data workflows.  In the currently released version of Centerprise, you pick your data source and then your destination.  Anything beyond this fixed flow is handled with a [...]

Usability Matters

I often read user surveys on corporate software products and see usability ranked fourth or fifth as a selection criterion for these products. Is it any wonder then that corporate software still remains difficult to learn and use even as consumer hardware and software products are undergoing a major revolution in usability? If you compare [...]

Data transformation in a data integration job using next Centerprise version “Hermes”

Most data integration jobs  revolve  around  gathering  data from disparate sources, cleaning it, making it conform to the standards by means of data mapping and data transformations, and then sending it to a destination such as a Data warehouse, a Data mart, or an Operational Data Store. One of the key challenges here  is the [...]

New Build Available (4.0.82.5)

There is a new build available for download on the website.  This build fixes an XML writing issue as well as adds a much needed new ability to the scheduler for those that use the polling feature.  It also now displays the serial number in the about box.  You can get it here.  New in [...]

Upcoming Centerprise Upgrade

We are working on developing the next generation of Centerprise platform. Since launching Centerprise in early 2008, we have made continual improvements to the product incorporating feedback from customers in numerous industries. The next version, code named “Hermes”, represents a major upgrade of the product providing high-end dataflow, workflow, and data quality features. We have [...]