Sunopsis Data Conductor : Creating an Oracle Project

Thursday, November 16th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

In this first article since the “Amazing November 2006 Blog Catastrophe”, I’m going to go back to Sunopsis Data Conductor and look at what’s involved in putting your own project together, running against Oracle datasources and targets. For anyone who’s not kept up with the Oracle news, Sunopsis are the ETL vendor Oracle are in […]

Getting Started with Sunopsis Data Conductor

Friday, November 10th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

If you were reading this blog a month or so ago, you may well have seen a posting about Oracle’s purchase of Sunopsis. Sunopsis are a French company with offices around the world that specializes in ETL tools; Oracle have bought them because they bring to Oracle the ability to load and transform data on […]

Mid-week, ETL and i-nodes

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 by Peter Scott

Nice to see that the first day outside of ’summer time’ was one of the warmest, sunniest for some while. But other than that Monday was one of those depressing days when my choice of IT as career was remarkably suspect. People that had private emails from me that day may have detected an ‘edginess’ […]

Marketing, spin and substance?

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 by Peter Scott

One of the functions of marketing is to promote a company’s services or products. Traditionally this is achieved by talking up the good points of the promoted item, ignoring the bad points and maybe talking down the opposition. What marketing departments are bad about is emphasising the positives about working with competing vendors.
A couple of […]

Oracle buy Sunopsis

Monday, October 9th, 2006 by Peter Scott

Oracle’s spending spree continues with the purchase of Sunopsis, a leading vendor in the data integration space. Sunopsis has two main products Data Conductor, an ETL tool, and Active Integration Platform, a piece of middleware that can bridge disparate data sources found within an organisation; interestingly this product can work in three modes, event driven, […]