2007

Dec 2007

ETL’s Newsletter
We’re glad to announce that our very first newsletter is out, containing interesting information on data integration and articles like Implementing Corporate Data Standards, use cases concerning ETL's latest projects with NATO and Honda UK, as well as ETL news and an introduction to the latest version of our product and its features.

We hope that with our introductory newsletter we’ll give you a good impression of what is to come in following editions, with our intention being to keep you informed and share knowledge for issues concerning an ever evolving and challenging sector.

Read the newsletter at http://www.etlsolutions.com/files/Newsletter_2007.pdf

 

Nov 2007

DAMA International Europe Conference 2007
29 October – 1 November 2007, Victoria Park Plaza Hotel, London

ETL’s first ever attendance and exhibiting at the event proved a winner for both attendees and ETL with an exceptional level of interest in Transformation Manager and ETL’s services. Four ETL team members attended and manned the ETL booth as a Gold sponsor. The team benefited from the varied and high quality of the presentations and were also invited to speak at the event. Over 100 of the delegates stopped by the ETL booth sharing their knowledge and interest in data integration and the latest demands and needs of the market. ETL also conducted demonstrations of TM often completely driven by the interested delegate which was probably unique at the event.

The event confirmed that many organizations, even ones of considerable size, still felt it necessary to hand-code solutions for integrating and managing their data and largely down to the lack of what they believed to be a suitably flexible toolset. However, all the people we talked to expressed their concerns for using such methods for several reasons, among which are:

  • Volumes of data continue to increase and so does the complexity of the business or transformation logic needed which significantly increases the risk, cost and timescales for delivering solutions
  • Hand coding is often resorted to because of lack of flexibility/extensibility in the chosen data integration/ETL tool to meet their more challenging transformations and not out of choice
  • Users of tools in this space sometimes choose in-house development due to vendors not offering greater transparency/openness from the vendors.
  • One of the greatest challenges is not securing the budget to in-house development but the dependency on having individuals possessing expertise and the experience in implementing the solution.

So, many visitors to the booth believed their companies needed to find a product that could reduce or eradicate the need for hand-coded data integration and have followed up their interest in how TM can assist in achieving this. It would be safe to say then that the landscape in the data integration market will change in the next years, with demand for tools offering complete solutions, but at the same time still offering the flexibility to fit with other tool choices.

 

Oct 2007

DAMA International Europe Conferences

London UK, 29/10/2007

ETL is glad to be a gold sponsor of the Data Management and Information Quality Conferences that will take place in London, UK on the 29 October – 1 November 2007. This is one of the major data management events in Europe, combining 3 conferences (Information Quality, DAMA and Metadata Europe Conference) and giving to all present the opportunity to get informed about the latest trends in data information technology worldwide, to listen and converse with speakers and delegates from around the world and to access to some of the most interesting recent use cases of big international companies.

 

WITSML Conference

Houston, 18/10/2007

On the 18th of October, ETL will be represented at the WITSML conference in Houston, with an interesting presentation about “Data Mapping Considerations for WITSML Clients” by our newest member, Jim Theriot. WITSML’s goal is “The right time seamless flow of well site data between operators and service companies to speed and enhance decision-making” and this event is an amazing opportunity for anyone interested in geoscience to meet representatives from the leading companies of the sector.

 

Sept 2007

ETL Solutions sponsors PMP Annual Consultant's Forum

London - Sept 27th 2007

The UK's leading conference for Management and IT consultants was held today in London, and ETL Solutions was there in a big way. The conference is an annual gathering of top Management and IT professional consultants, with this year's theme being "Facing tomorrow's challenges today". Further details

 

Consultants Forum 2007

ETL are delighted to announce our Gold sponsorship of the Annual Consultants Forum 2007 taking place on September 27th 2007 at One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA. You can visit our stand and meet some of the team. For further information visit http://www.conferencepage.com/forum2007/

 

Aug 2007

Modulant Inc select ETL Solutions Ltd.

Established in 1989, Modulant is a provider of Enterprise Information Solutions through the delivery of superior products and services. Located in Charleston, SC and Long Beach, CA. Modulant offers complete project solutions for their customers from conception through delivery and support. Modulant has been working with some of the largest and most sophisticated enterprise environments in the world, with a primary emphasis on commercial and government organizations such as Fortune 50 companies, the Department of Defense, and the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). For further details read our press release or visit http://www.modulant.com

 

New projects for JCB with Syncron

Syncron and ETL continue their successful partnership winning additional projects for JCB where ETL will complete a comprehensive integration solution for sites in Madrid and Savannah. In every corner of the world you'll find a JCB machine. JCB is one of the world's top four manufacturers of construction equipment. JCB employ over 6,000 people on 4 continents and sell products in 150 countries through 1,000 dealer locations.

 

2nd webinar led by ETL

Latest webinar attracts participants from a range of companies including JP Morgan, Barclays Capital, Traderisks, UBS. ETL hold the 2nd in the series of webinars led by ETL’s new head of Financial Services Business Unit; Greg Larsen with future events soon to be announced.

 

July 2007

Open Spirit uses TM in its new release

OpenSpirit is using ETL’s Transformation Manager (TM) technology in its v3.0.1 release to enhance the performance of the OpenSpirit PPDM data connector. The TM toolset provides streamlined and scalable authoring, testing and deployment of data integration applications. End users of the OpenSpirit PPDM data connector will benefit from improved efficiency and faster access to the data housed in their commercial project data stores. Additional OpenSpirit data store connectors will include this technology in future releases.

 

May 2007

Gwynedd Business Awards

Since last year, companies in Gwynedd have a great opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, gain valuable knowledge about latest trends and participate in interesting and informative workshops in “a series of events focusing on business, training and entrepreneurship organised by Gwynedd Council”. The Gwynedd Business week, as it is called, came to a climax with the Gwynedd Business Award Gala Dinner, held in the Celtic Royal Hotel in Caernarfon on the 24th of May.

The participation was impressive, since the business awards attracted a large number of entries and, as was stated by the judges, “the calibre of entries reflected the quality that exists in Gwynedd and augured well for the local economy.” There were 12 categories and the criteria “exceptional achievement and growth potential, as well as evidence of businesses' contribution to Gwynedd's economy, community and environmental sustainability”

ETL participated in the competition, and was short listed for the Science and Technology Award. Three of its members attended the awards ceremony in Caernarfon.

 

Petro-Canada

Petro-Canada is the newest addition to our growing list of customers, having purchased Transformation Manager through our partner, Schlumberger.


April 2007

Our site has been refreshed; not a simple shallow change of style, but a whole reconstruction of content, with more information on our product and services, full and often updated documentation, wink demos, software downloads; virtually everything that you might want to know about us.