We are pleased to announce the availability of name and address parsing and cleansing functionality for Centerprise Data Integrator. This feature provides sophisticated name parsing, address parsing, address cleansing, and gender determination capabilities. Key features include: Name Parsing and Gender Determination Centerprise integrated name component accepts free-form names and then automatically splits them into standard [...]

Working with EDI Transactions in Centerprise Electronic Data Interchange is a predominant means of data exchange between businesses. Integrating EDI transactions is a challenging undertaking. Businesses often need to map incoming EDI transactions with their in-house applications. These applications are usually based on relational databases necessitating conversion from hierarchical to relational model. Building outgoing EDI [...]

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 [...]

Maintaining dimension tables in a data mart is quite a chore. We have talked to customers who spend a great deal of time writing SQL scripts, stored procedures, or other code to perform this function. Often, the code is written or duplicated for each dimension table and must be modified regularly to accommodate changing business [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]