Forrester Research has recognised enterprise data integration company Ascential Software as a market leader in the extract, transform and load (ETL) segment in a June 2004 report entitled "The ETL Tool Market is Back And Growing".
According to the report, Ascential posted the largest gain in market share growth for the ETL market, growing from 11.85% in 2002 to 14.43% in 2003, a higher percentage increase than any other player in the "high market segment".
DataStage, Ascential`s ETL offering, is part of the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite, a data integration solution that profiles, cleanses and transforms data from virtually any application or system, regardless of data volume or latency.
The report by Forrester analyst Philip Russom provides a concise view of the expanding role and market for ETL tools, discussing growth rates, trends and industry players.
In the report, Russom says the market for ETL tools is healthy and growing, corroborating that ETL as a technology is still a viable form of data integration, with many years of service to the IT community ahead of it.
Julian Field, MD of CenterField Software, the local distributor for Ascential, says: "DataStage is a critical component of the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite, which provides all of the components necessary for enterprise data integration, including data profiling and data quality capabilities."
Ascential`s integrated offering is designed to help companies streamline operations, improve customer support, expedite business transactions, and make better tactical and strategic decisions on the basis of the best available information.
The suite provides scalability through parallel processing, metadata management, and any-to-any data source and application connectivity, and delivers on-demand data integration seamlessly in an enterprise`s service-oriented architecture.
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