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 [...]

Centerprise Data Integrator 5.0 is now available.   If you’ve been participating in our beta program, we thank you and invite you to download the released version of Centerprise.  You can find it at the same download location you were given for the beta version or you can contact sales@astera.com.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]