Posts Tagged ‘Astera Software’

Blobs, Clobs, Image, and other Large Data Types in Centerprise

Binary data–video, audio, pictures, images, and PDF files–is becoming an integral part of database applications and integrating and moving binary data efficiently is an important aspect of today’s application environment. Centerprise provides built-in ability to move binary data between applications, databases, and files via simple drag and drop that involves no programming or scripting. With [...]

Integrating REST and Http Web Services using Centerprise

REST Services are now becoming dominant service platform supported by most of the popular web services. We are currently beta testing our REST web services connector. This is a powerful component and provides the functionality to integrate with most web services. This component can be read for all CRUD operations. Key features include: Support for [...]

Generic OLE DB Support in Centerprise Data Integrator

Centerprise delivers a wide range of connectivity to databases, file formats, and applications. These include native connectivity to popular databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Sybase, Teradata, Netezza, Access, and others. Additionally, a generic ODBC component is provided to connect to any ODCBC data source. Centerprise now includes the capability to connect [...]

Real time data integration coming to Centerprise

We live in an on-demand world where latency of incoming data is increasingly becoming an important factor in modern data integration platforms. Using a low-latency or zero latency solution to process data in real time can have a major impact on business intelligence and time-dependent, business-critical decisions. Centerprise 5.0 already boasts of a state of [...]

Source Control In Centerprise

With Centerprise’s file system approach, putting meta data files such as transfers and dataflows under source control was always possible.  But now, we’ve added a built-in, fully-functional source control client right in the studio UI.  If you’re familiar with Microsoft’s Visual Studio, you’re probably already familiar the concept of integrated source control and know how [...]

Centerprise 5 Beta Release is now available

I am pleased to announce that Centerprise Data Integrator 5 beta is now available for download. This release represents a major upgrade and adds sophisticated dataflow and workflow designers. We are very excited about this release and the great deal of value it can add to our customers’ business. Centerprise 5 represents an attractive alternative [...]

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 [...]