Apatar partners with MySQL AB for open-source data integration
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 5/28/2008 4:42:00 PM
Apatar, a provider of open-source software tools for the data integration market, has joined MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance (MECA), the third-party partnership program for MySQL AB, a leading open-source database developer.
Apatar is the first company to release open-source tools that enable 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 between databases—e.g., MySQL; Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle); Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, CSV/TXT files; applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM); and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3, RSS feeds).
Says Nicolas Pujol, a senior director for MySQL AB, “Apatar shares our belief that database access and management solutions should be easily affordable and available to all types of business users—not just high-end programmers.”
According to Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Group, corporate developers expend approximately 65 percent of their effort building bridges between applications.
“The truth is that in today’s enterprises, most data integration projects never get built,” says Renat Khasanshyn, CEO, Apatar. “Even though the companies might use MySQL or another open-source database, the return-on-investment on the small projects is simply too low to justify bringing in expensive middleware. Apatar entered this market as an open-source vendor bringing the ease of drag-and-drop data integration to companies that previously found proprietary data integration, ETL, and EAI software tools expensive and difficult to implement.”
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