Open-source data integration gets a boost
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 2/11/2008 6:00:00 AM
Apatar, a provider of open-source software tools for the data integration market, reports an alliance with EnterpriseDB, an Oracle-compatible database company to support EnterpriseDB’s Postgres-based database products as both sources and targets of data integration initiatives.
Apatar is the first company to release open-source tools for nontechnical staff and customers to access the application data they need to do their jobs more effectively. Apatar enables its users to easily link information in EnterpriseDB databases with information in other databases—e.g., MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle files—Microsoft Excel spreadsheets; CSV/TXT files; applications—e.g., Salesforce.com, SugarCRM)—and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3, RSS feeds).
According to Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner, corporate developers spend approximately 65 percent of their efforts building bridges between applications. With Apatar’s visual tool set, EnterpriseDB users can perform even a complex data integration job without having to write a single line of a code.
Apatar will provide support, training, and consulting services to assist EnterpriseDB customers in achieving their data integration objectives.
