Gartner has placed Ascential Software, distributed and supported in SA by CenterField Software, in its leaders quadrant in a new report on the extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) market.
According to Gartner, this means Ascential has a clear vision of market direction and is actively building competencies to sustain its leadership position.
"ETL technology is an important component of a complete enterprise data integration solution and the cornerstone of many strategic technology initiatives that benefit greatly from data profiling, data quality and metadata management functionality," says Julian Field, MD of CenterField Software.
"We see in our customer base strong evidence to support Gartner`s position that ETL is vital beyond traditional business intelligence applications. Our customers use the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite for application deployment and consolidation, master data management, on-demand data integration, and meeting regulatory and compliance requirements."
Ascential DataStage, the company`s ETL flagship product, is a component of its comprehensive enterprise data integration solution, the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite, which adds data profiling, data quality, data cleansing and parallel processing to its core ETL functionality, to support virtually any application or system regardless of data volume or latency requirements.
According to the influential report, Magic Quadrant for ETL, 2004, market demand is taking ETL tools into new application areas. Demonstrated competence beyond the domain of business intelligence (BI) is becoming an important differentiator among vendors.
The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite is data integration software that profiles, cleanses and transforms data from virtually any application or system regardless of data volume or latency. The 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, complete metadata management, any-to-any data source and application connectivity, and delivers on-demand data integration within an enterprise`s service-oriented architecture.
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