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demian | 10 years ago

Thank you, I'm currently looking for alternatives to "enterprise" ETL tools.

Most of leading tools are HORRIBLE as programming enviroments and also are incredibly expensive.

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glogla|10 years ago

Yes. For example, I am convinced that Informatica Powercenter was made by the Devil to bring suffering into the world.

demian|10 years ago

PowerCenter is a piece of shit.

robinhowlett|10 years ago

I recently joined a competitor (SnapLogic). It's a lot nicer IMHO - HTML5 drag-n-drop interface, unified platform for big data, API integrations, IoT etc., and supports executing integrations either in the cloud or on-premise.

blumkvist|10 years ago

Microsoft's SQL Server Integration Services has a lot of adapters and transformations out of the box. The tooling is in visual studio, you can use c# or f#. Warning about f# - you will never want to touch other languages after you try it.

unixhero|10 years ago

Yeah. It's really friggin good. I highly recommend it. And I'm an entrenched libre open source kinda character.

I recommend reading PACT PRESS' books about Business Intelligence on the Microsoft SQL Server stack. It brings it all together in a fantastic way, example driven.