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Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) Products

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The area of ETL has been recognised for over 20 years and the challenges are well recognised. There is wide range of Products available in this category.

There is an overlap with other categories, such as Data Cleansing and Data Profiling, and most of these Products occupy an expensive niche. They are all fighting a war of attrition against Microsoft's SSIS (qv), and probably risking obsolescence sooner or later.
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Here is a list of some Products

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VENDOR	PRICE	PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Ab Initio		Good for Profiling.
Ascential DataStage		Offered as part of a comprehensive ETL Suite. An IBM Company and renamed as part of the WebSphere family.
Business Objects		Data Integrator
CA Advantage		Data Transformation.
Cognos 8		Decision Stream
Data Junction		Now part of Pervasive, and called the Pervasive Data Integrater.
Data Mirror		Data Mirror offers an Integration Suite and Transformation Server
Embarcadero		DT/Studio
ETI		Evolutionary Technologies International - based on COBOL !
Hummingbird	Open Source	Integration Suite
IBM DB2		Offers a Data Integration Suite and Data Warehouse Manager.
Informatica		'PowerCenter' and MetaData Exchange, (including ERWin Data Models), and 'SuperGlue' for MetaData Analysis.
Information Builders		'iWay - the Foundation for SOA'
Jitterbit	3 Editions - at $800, $2000 and $4000	A new player, with offices in the USA, UK and Malaysia
Leapfrog BI	Free 30-Day Trial	"Agile Data Mart Development Platform"
Microsoft SQL Server		SSIS replaces 'Data Transformation Services' (DTS)
Oracle		This BI Warehouse Builder page is a good starting-point.
Pervasive (renamed Actian)		Data Integrater, also offers a Data Profiler. and Data Integrator in the Clouds
Progress	Free Trial	EasyL
SAS		ETL Enterprise Server. ,also supports Master Data Management.
Sunopsis	Acquired by Oracle in October, 2006	Data Conductor - "Positioned as 'Visionary' in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for ETL." Also offers an Active Integration Platform.
Timextender		"Agile ETL and Data Warehousing Software" (from Denmark). Works with IBM DB2 and Microsoft SSAS Offers Training and Certification and stresses an Agile approach.
WhereScape		Speeds up the development of Data Warehouses. Works with Microsoft Fast Track Data Warehouse. and Teradata.