If you read my blog regularly you may have seen a post I did back in Dec 06 on ETI. I really liked the approach they were taking to the market plus it was clear the new CEO Ron Baker had a clear vision for the company and its road to success. Good news continues to come from ETI this week with the general availability of ETI Solution® Version 6. Improvements to 6 include stronger data access, international data integration initiatives, integration competency centers, project specification automation and advanced data quality.

I will include the laundry list of features below but I think above and beyond the roll out of 6 the biggest news is the traction ETI continues to gain in the market, a recent press release highlighted a win at American National Property and Casualty and Ron shared several others with me last week at TDWI.

I'm glad to see ETI doing so well they seem to have found the missing link with Baker and the new DI-SaaS direction.

Additional ETI Solution V6 functionality includes:
• A sleek, easy-to-use localized interface
• Integrates heterogeneous multibyte character formats
• Controls and manages multibyte metadata
• Facilitates improved Master Data Management (MDM)
• Issue tracking for increased developer productivity
• Data change and impact analysis (CDC)
• Support for data governance and federated data management requirements
• Visualization
• New and advanced support for Java/File System, Java/XML, COBOL/File System, COBOL/DB2, C/Oracle and
C/XML
• New OS support for Windows Vista
• 64-bit platform support
• Universal data access to any data source or target, including mainframe, unstructured data, flat files.

Tags: SaaS, Data integration, Ron Baker, ETI, Don Julio 1942