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Enterprise Information Integration Products to Watch

This blog entry is co-authored by Mike Ferguson (link) and William McKnight and is being cross-posted on our blogs.

If you’re ready to take the plunge into EII, you may be surprised to find that one of your existing information management vendors is in that marketplace. It’s also a marketplace of opportunity, where new, focused vendors have emerged.

There are two main types of EII vendors in the marketplace:
1. Model-driven federated query EII vendors
2. ETL tool vendors providing EII via data integration services built using traditional graphical data flows and published as web services

Federated query EII products include
o Business Objects Data Federator
o BEA AcquaLogic Data Services
o Composite Software Information Server
o Denodo
o IBM WebSphere Federation Server (formerly WebSphere Information Integrator) and IBM Information Server
o Ipedo XIP
o Metamatrix
o Sybase Avaki
o XAware

It is also the case that several ETL data integration vendors have extended their data integration tools to support EII. These products include:
o Ab Initio
o Business Objects - Data Integrator
o IBM - WebSphere DataStage SOA Edition
o Informatica - PowerCenter
o Microsoft - SQL Server Integration Services
o Oracle - Warehouse Builder
o SAS - Data Integration Studio

Technorati tags: eii, Enterprise Information Integration

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