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Centerprise Data Integrator is an integration platform that includes tools for data integration, data transformation, data quality, and data profiling.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/o3/ca/HQSRO95Q7O1Q.pngAstera SoftwareGreat data tool!2018-05-24T21:38:15.856ZCenterprise is an integration tool we use for data manipulation and transfer. The tool makes it easy to transform database data from one endpoint and deliver it to another. This is an excellent tool that makes things like writing hard long SQL scripts into just a click and drag press the go button and done process. Centerprise saves us a huge amount of time when integrating legacy databases data into our application.,Slick drag and drop UI is easy to learn and get started with
Customer service is friendly and responsed quickly
Large array of built in functions makes data manipulation easy,Sometimes when previewing the data output or even running complex dataflows it can take a long time.
Occasionally crashes after long use
Could use some more functions like row number,10,Dramatically reduced new client integration processes
New employees who are not good with SQL can use this tool
Streamline tasks data importsVerified UserCenterprise Data Integrator is an excellent toolset for multiple uses in a healthcare agency2017-05-23T18:59:23.881ZWe are a large federally qualified health center that serves approximately 70,000 patients per year. Recently we began implementing a data warehouse and analytics platform, and have started a project to integrate our electronic health record system into other systems. Centerprise Data Integrator has become an essential toolkit for us in translating and moving our data. We use this as our main ETL tool to load our data warehouse from a variety of sources. We also use the product to transfer semi-structure data from Citrix SecureForms into our electronic health record system. We are able to develop tablet-based electronic forms that a patient can fill out, and then use Centerprise Data Integrator to validate the data and load it directly into the patient's chart. This saves on the overhead involved in paper processes. Since the tool is so user-friendly, we have multiple teams and users that do not have a extensive SQL or SSIS training creating high quality solutions.,The user friendly interface to develop integration packages means that you don't need to be highly trained in SQL code.
There is a huge variety of out-of-box functions, translations, and connectors. This means you can get up and running with using these different components right away.
Centerprise Data Integrator can mine data from unstructured and semi-structured data sources like pdf files and csv's. It means that virtually anything you have can be moved into a SQL database or fed into other systems.
Centerprise Support has been excellent and responsive to our needs.,We had some issues in getting the software running with their licensing model on our Citrix Desktop. They were very helpful in working with us on this issue.
With any product that creates SQL code in the background, I am skeptical of how optimized that will be for our specific environment. We have not yet had problems related to this, but customers may want to monitor closely.
They do not yet seem to have a large customer base and robust user community.,9,By enabling the integration between electronic forms and our electronic health record system, we've been able to reduce overhead related with printing, scanning, shredding of paper documents.
The low barrier of expertise needed to create data integration packages has saved significantly on labor and training in these practices.
The ease of use has enabled us to move data integration projects forward quickly and produce results in a short period of time. The features that allow users to preview the data allow us to be more agile with the solution and get feedback right away.,Datawatch Monarch,MicroStrategy Analytics, NextGen Healthcare Practice Management, Microsoft SQL Server,3Andre BeaumontFast and Simple. All-in-one package2015-08-17T14:27:15.855ZWe purchased Centerprise to be our ETL tool for our new "CloudNet" Crop Insurance Policy system. It was our tool to do our nightly loads to our Data Warehouse for all of our reporting needs. It was also our tool for sending and receiving all our daily RMA files to the government.,Once you get the feel around the interface, Centerprise is a real easy and fast tool to get up and running. You can have a Dataflow up and running in mere minutes compared to some other tools on the market. The interface is simple and pretty much everything is all in once place and easy to understand.
The Preview data on each object is a lifesaver. To be able to set up a Dataflow and preview it's data immediately without having to run or set up a workflow is a very time-saving benefit.
You can run Dataflows. They do not need to be incorporated into a Workflow in order to run.
You have the ability to pass in and out parameters to Dataflows. Very handy if you need specific information about a Dataflow (or data in that flow) in order to continue on processing the next step.
The scheduler is extremely nice and easy.
Centerprise is an all in one package. Everything is together. You do not need a separate scheduler or bits and pieces of other products in order to get full use of Centerprise. You can Read, write and parse files. You can send emails and/or FTP to government (any) sites. You can schedule your jobs or have your System (we had .NET) call and trigger a job for you.,Our main concern is backward compatibility with QA testing. We had a few releases of new code, changes or fixed that broke existing code which took us over 90 hours to run thru and refresh all our flows. We like the enhancements, but we don't have time to back thru everything, everytime there is a release to retest and refresh all the Flows. It's not feasible for us.
Help documentation. There needs to be a lot more with a lot of examples (so we aren't calling and bugging support all the time). Although, they were extremely helpful, but I'm sure they have other things to do than teach us how to use the product.
Pretty much any enhancement we needed at the time (or asked for) was given to us in a pretty timely manner. The Cobol objects were fixed/enhanced. The out variables were added. The only thing we didn't get to use that we asked for was the REST service calls. We had a lot more we wanted to do with the product.,10,It is tough to say on how Centerprise would have helped us with ROI. Unfortunately our project (after 3 years) was scrapped (put on hold) due to the impromptu purchase of another Crop Insurance company. But with that, Centerprise was huge in getting our warehouse loaded for our BI Team to make important decisions about our policies.,Informatica Enterprise Data Integration,2,2,No,Price
Product Features,After working with another product after Centerprise, I wouldn't change anything. Centerprise is the way to go.,Yes,8,Yes,Mike always gave us great support (even when I was impatient and pushy). They also went out of their way to give us exactly what we needed (enhancements),Setting up the basic Source to Target mappings/Flows are easy.
Scheduler is very nice and easy.,Help documentation. The help available is not that great. So, getting up-to-speed there was a lot of questions, but after that, things are easy.,9Dawn BauerWOW Why did we wait soooo long?2015-08-07T15:39:02.159ZWe mainly use Centerprise for two areas. Our team takes other systems' data and transforms that into our format for our developed software. We use Centerprise to pull the necessary information out of the other systems' reports to validate the completion of a conversion. We also use it to extract data from the other systems' reports to do the actual data transformation into our format when the other system's provider will not supply data for the conversion.,Because the standard reports from one system to another are not always compatible - Centerprise allows us to create a reusable template to standardize the information that we use to validate conversions. Standardizing the reporting data from two systems is an awesome strength that can be developed out of Centerprise.
We have had several instances that the supplier of software to a customer will not provide data out of their system for conversion. Sometimes it is a timing issue (you will need to wait 6 months for this) and other times it is a cost issue. We have been able to convert accounting and payroll information into our system just based on reports out of the legacy system. Because we can save the template we can now convert anyone on that legacy system without the involvement of the legacy system's software provider.,We have several support calls that have been labeled as to be done in the future. One is the reading of the File Definition in AcuCobol with the sign trailing in a numeric field. The handling of this would help us in several areas but we have been able to develop a work around at this point.
Some of the child/overlap configuration for the "RMD" seems awkward.,8,We have seen that the use of this package saved us 2 hours per conversion but now since the templates are already developed it is saving us more. This reduces our lead time for conversions, and increases our efficiencies as a conversion team.
We have four licenses and in one conversion this year it allowed us to do a conversion that would not have been done. This conversion generated more than enough money to cover the cost of these four licenses for the entire year. The customer is ecstatic about the information that we were able to pull out of their reports and most of all the upper management of our company had their socks shocked off of them. Since the supplier of the software for this customer would not provide data to us for a conversion our upper management was going to cancel the sale to this customer, unless the customer was going to build our system from scratch. We were able to provide nearly a complete accounting and payroll conversion to this customer all from the data on their reports thanks to centerprise.,Don SmithAstera Centerprise rules!2015-08-04T14:15:39.074ZCenterprise is primarily used to move data from our operational database into our newly created data warehouse. We also intend to use it to exchange data files between different applications. We are still in development, but we pull data from sources that span our whole organization into an enterprise data warehouse that will be accessed by our internal and external users through MicroStrategy, our reporting tool.,It's incredibly easy to use. The YouTube videos Astera provides are enough to get you started. People with no previous ETL experience can start building simple mappings very quickly.
It's incredibly easy to install and maintain. After I first installed Centerprise, I was able to start working in just a few minutes, and the maintenance releases are pretty straightforward.
I am particularly impressed with how much Centerprise simplifies transformations that require more work in other ETL tools. The perfect example is the SCD transformation, which handles all the logic in an Slowly Changing Dimension. Even with a market leader like Informatica, the SCD logic has to be manually built. With Centerprise this can be built in just a few minutes, and it impacts every mapping.,Performance is definitely an area to work on. My own benchmarking shows a notable difference when introducing simple transformations into a jobflow.
The tool lacks debugging capabilities
I would like to see more jobflow stats than the ones provided
It is Windows-based. Many companies (including ours) are UNIX shops, and try to avoid Windows servers as much as possible, so it would be nice to have a non-Windows version.,9,It's still too early to tell for us because this is a new data warehouse and reporting system, but I expect the difference will be like night and day.
Today we face long waits and timeouts just to get some simple data out of our database. Centerprise will make those a thing of the past.,Mario FerrerMake Centerprise your data toolkit's center prize!2015-08-03T19:34:33.757ZCenterprise is used as a key ETL and data integration component bringing together several different financial data sources to compile a single view of our client's corporate finance group. It delivers a single integrated view of their 'cash register' systems and solves the problem of the manual integration of the separate system's data and reports.,The links to many different data sources made it real easy to gain access to the key data elements and integrate the data across many different systems.
The graphical approach is self documenting and permits the rapid assimilation of existing work by new team members.
It makes it VERY easy to build source/destination data reconciliations.
The ability to incrementally see the data transformation results at any point in a data flow is invaluable.
The XML processors make it real easy to process and integrate XML data. We've even used Centerprise on its own data logs to pull out and report on the XML job log data for custom reporting.
Centerprise is an invaluable tool for addressing data integration particularly dealing with 'Shadow IT' Excel spreadsheets.
The dataflow architecture will take some getting used to as you have to understand the various data flow objects and THINK about how a data flow will work to accomplish what you want.,The scheduler and job monitor are areas where the product can be improved. We would like to see an independent job monitor as a separate read only component so that a client use license is not not needed to see the working jobs.
The job scheduler interface is not that intuitive and adding jobs, particularly in 100's, is VERY time consuming using the interface.
The mapping between UTC and local times need work and the scheduler needs to handle switching back and forth between day light savings.,10,Our client has a quicker, clearer and trustworthy business financial view enabling them to make well informed financial decisions.
The ETL development group is twice as productive and handing work out for support is much quicker and more simple.
User adoption of the systems was quick and painless.,,No,9,Yes,We had an issue where some of our nightly production jobs where intermittently raising missing data source errors when the server was under heavy load. The errors happened intermittently and at different times in the night cycle. We alerted the support team and sent them our data flows and job schedule. Mike and his support team worked major overtime and into the weekend on the problem to isolate it. They were able to recreate the issue but only on certain machines with certain OS patch revisions. Needless to say, they figured out what was happening and come up with a patch. We applied the patch and the problem disappeared.,Everything is data flow architecture. Building flows that grab data from one source to transform it and place into a destination is a piece of cake. You will however need to understand the data flow objects and how to link them together to build very complicated ETL flows.
Grabbing data from the 'Shadow IT' Excel explosion and putting back under database control is one place where Centerprise shines.
We literally generated custom status reports by using Centerprise on it's own job log to pull out the XML, prepare a report and email it to the support teams.
This is a VERY valid questions and I'm NOT knocking it, just trying to draw an analogy...I could almost say that this questions is akin to asking...'What functions are particularly easy or elegant to perform with a programming language compiler?' I guess it's based on your imagination, creativity, and of course data volume.,Improvements can be made in daily job monitoring. When you have over 5000 jobs running in a night cycle it can get difficult to isolate that one job that didn't behave using the job monitor embedded in the client.
Moving over 100 million records nightly. However, I believe that to be a difficult task for ANY product running on the same platform as Centerprise.
Not so much a product issue but a developer issue is getting out of a typical iterative programming thought process and moving into an object based data flow thought process.
Synchronizing data flows and workflows that have cross dependencies.,No,9Phil NacamuliFirst impressions of Centerprise2015-08-21T21:13:47.125ZWe convert data from various sources to our ERP system. I use Centerprise for two jobs. 1) take the data from reports provided and transform them to delimited files that can be imported into our ERP system. 2) Transform the data into an Excel spreadsheet into a format that may be compared to data already imported into our ERP system, to verify that the data did get into the database correctly.,Parses fields from reports. Vertical reports can be transformed into one single row in Excel.
Process PDF reports. Very helpful. So far, the best tool for this task that I have used.
Easy to use. No need have a strong developer background to use.,PDF reports are tricky at times. The columns line up when printed on paper. But Centerprise does not always see the columns this way.,8,Conversions are quicker.
Validation of the conversion is simplified
When working with a client it is an excellent source to show them how we got to the results we have.,David FarlerLike peeling an onion, there is so much more to it!2015-08-13T18:49:40.969ZOur department handles data conversion for a proprietary database. We process and manipulate data coming from competitors' systems in a variety of formats, and convert it into our systems. Centerprise readily replaces the need to use multiple other programs with their Data Integrator. Instead of processing in one program, then the next, and so on, we now have a single-point tool that does everything the others do, and much more.,We often receive PDF-based reports from a competitor's financial and payroll management system. A normal cut and paste operation makes a mess of the data, whereas the Centerprise Data Integrator parses and aggregates the data.
In some cases, we have to generate a value for a proprietary field in our database based on multiple fields of competitive data. Rather than support multiple versions of our own data importer, we can build the value on the fly, saving time and effort.
The Data Integrator is intelligent in its ability to parse reports, map and modify fields, and export data. We are just now going into more depth from starting at the tip of the Centerprise iceberg. The more we see, the more impressed we are.,I haven't seen any areas for improvement, but as I become more proficient with its usage, there's an outside chance I could provide suggestions.,9,The tool has had significant impact on our ability to gather and convert competitive data where the competitor will not provide or allow access to their data source directly. If their system will generate reports, we can convert it.,Dave WorthingtonCenterprise Data Integrator - XML the easy way2015-08-03T19:42:04.636ZCenterprise Data Integrator is used to process XML data. The software is currently used by myself only. Data Integrator replaced SSIS as our XML mapping tool. Due to a very aggressive implementation timeline, SSIS was not feasible. Data Integrator allowed me to map complex XML data very quickly and without much ramp-up time.,Maps XML data exceptionally well
Integrates flawlessly with SQL 2012
Extremely robust set of transformations and functions which allows a huge amount of flexibility with ETL,The help functionality. Needs better search and more examples.,10,Definitely increased our data processing efficiency
Allowed the company to penetrate a new health care maket space,data migrator,talend,pervasive,cloveretl,liquid data mapper,1,1,XML mapping,have not had a chance to evaluate how this product will support other areas of our business yet.,converting some of our very old SSIS packages,10,No,Product Features
Product Usability
Third-party Reviews,I would not change anything,Implemented in-house,Yes,Change management was minimal,due to the ease of use, there were no significant issues encountered. I did identify a bug, which was confirmed by Centerprise, but it did not prevent me from loading data.
Due to the very large XML schemas the government utilizes for health care, some limitations of the GUI created some lag when developing maps. These GUI issues have been relayed to Centerprise,10,No,8,Yes,1st time I utilized the product, I was attempting to move through the tool a 1GB file. I kept running out of memory. I was up against an extremely aggressive timeline, so I reached out to Astera for support and within a few hours, I had what I needed to continue.,built in functions provide a nearly limitless way of handling data
love the data preview feature. beneficial when mapping xml data,when dealing with large xml schemas and having to make a change (like converting an xml source to a transformation) you sometimes have to remap, which in my case, can be hundreds of data points
the GUI contains several areas there the display does not show the entire element/field name. The government schemas all contain field names that are very long. The GUI cuts off the ends of these field names, which makes it difficult to select the correct one.,9Mark RubinAstera Centerprise Data Integrator2015-08-10T18:40:32.438ZCenterprise Data Integrator is used for importing data received in various formats from our customers. Some send in XML format, others in CSV, some in other delimited types and some we obtain via APIs and web services. The data is then normalized using Centerprise Data Integrator and pushed into our dealer data datastores.,Centerprise Data Integrator makes it very easy for non-technical people to create and maintain data mappings from one data source type to another. This is beneficial to allow developers and engineers to focus on other parts of the business needs and not be bogged down with constant work flow changes desired by the customers.
Centerprise Data Integrator is very good at moving and translating large blocks of data efficiently.,Our biggest problem is with updates. We feel we have to thoroughly test each and every update with complete regression testing before we can apply that update to our production environment. This is due to previous updates often containing bugs or changing existing functionality.
Centerprise Data Integrator could do a much better job at moving a lot of small sets of data instead of a few large sets.
Web services connection could be much better. It is difficult to get some web services to work properly.
Could really benefit from allowing 32-bit integers instead of only 64-bit integers.,3,Using Centerprise Data Integrator frees up developers from creating custom, hard-coded mappings for specific customers and allows our support personnel to offer that service.,mulesoftCarlos ManzanaresCenterprise at its best!2015-08-18T19:03:00.350ZUsing Centerprise as an ETL tool is working out great. Especially working with un-common data sources! The tool is easy to use, very affordable to own and returns are very high.,Easy to learn. We were able to train new employees and get them to speed within a week.
Easy for business users.,Would like to see template based development. For example I should be able to select a new TARGET table to be a TYPEII table, the tool should have a wizard to create the right map.,10,Increased speed of delivery of data.
Business user driven data delivery
Rapid Prototyping,Venkat Prasad Sunkara M.S, PMP, CBIP, ITILCenterprise makes data integration easy2015-08-21T21:20:47.600ZWe use Centerprise Data Integrator to process data into and out of our proprietary and off the shelf software applications. We process data into mainly SQL Server back-ends. Our numerous EDI outputs are to private and government agencies. We have even used Centerprise to automate and schedule reports using custom DLL functions. We even use custom functions in Centerprise to encrypt and decrypt some of the data. Our latest implementation exports an excel file and automatically PGP encrypts it from a SQL server back-end.,Allows for integration of custom functions.
Allows us to easily migrate data to and from any data source. Our department has become the go-to for automated data extracts.
We use emails from jobs we run in Centerprise to ensure all jobs run successfully.,I have not upgraded to the latest version, but in the last version, could use better descriptions in error messages.
I have not upgraded to the latest version, but in the last version, it would be nice to have reports we could run or have emailed daily/weekly with success/failure of all jobs scheduled.,10,Increased employee efficiency
Allowed us to take more on as a department without added head count
Better turnaround time for data conversions.,Microsoft SQL Server,Adeptia BPM Suite,3,2,EDIs to private and government entities
scheduled data extracts or reports
quick and clean data conversions,Scheduled Crystal Reports
Automatic PGP encryption of data extract
Proprietary encryption and decryption of data,automatic SFTP
Transfer of documents into our document management system,10,No,Price
Product Features
Product Usability
Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
Third-party Reviews,I currently rely more heavily on third-party consumer product reviews now before I even call a company up. Back when we got Centerprise, there were not reviews out for any of the products we evaluated.,Implemented in-house,No,Change management was minimal,Just the learning curve, but once you understand the basics, it is a rather intuitive product.,10,9,Yes,I was having an issue with custom functions. They helped me with a work around and issued a bog fix with next release.,Straight source to new destination type conversion
custom functions
data transformation
scheduling jobs,Using parameters sometimes needs single quotes around it when used in a SQL statement
Dynamic file name,9Verified UserTest drive the product in your environment before buying2015-08-13T19:27:07.066ZIt is used by the integration and implementation groups to import data. It was brought in to make it easier to map the data that is being imported.,The mapping interface is easy to use.
It works well with our code repository.,It does not work well in an environment where you run a lot of small jobs. The queue processor leaves much to be desired.
Jobs fail for no apparent reason and do not automatically restart. We have to come in every morning and manually restart jobs that have failed overnight.,5,It is very expensive for what we are using it for.,Verified UserMy experience with Centerprise2015-08-11T14:56:48.176ZWe were using it for a data warehouse. My role was bringing over historical data from a COBOL based system. In January we purchased a new company and are using their system so I'm unsure how it will be used in the future.,Easy to learn
I liked it because I was converting older historical files with packed fields (COBOL) and it did a good job of converting without a lot of effort.
You could reuse structures you build instead of having to redo it.,I think in the beginning there were some issues with more complex data flows but they usually fixed them. I think they have made a lot of improvements since we first started using the software.,7,I think if you were to compare it to other products for the price and ease of use it is very positive for your company.
We were using it for BI so I think it is very beneficial for use in business decisions.,Verified UserBest in the market for data integration2015-08-03T16:45:14.444ZCenterprise Data Integrator is used across the organization. It saves a lot of time with ease of use.,Very easy to use when compared to SSIS
Less technical people can learn the product easily
Huge time saver,I have none, I wish I could use all the features that it offers,10,Increased employee efficienly
Worth every penny during data migration,8Verified User
Windows
Centerprise Data Integrator
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