I was just looking over reviews of Integration tools by Gartner ans Forrester … pretty scary.
Two faults with the Gartner report:
The exclusion of open source contenders Pentaho and Jasper – Gartner does qualify that they only analyze tools from companies with minimum revenue or minimum number of production customers – While Pentaho may not yet have 300 subscribers to the commercial version (I have worked for two companies that do or .67% of the threshold), I’d bet just about anything that there were way over 300 customers supported by the community in 2007 when the Gartner report came out.
The other flaw with the Pentaho report is in their naming of the report – they review monolithic ENTERPRISE data integration tools with ENTERPRISE criteria but title their report Magic Quandrant for Data Integration Tools, 2007.
The Forrester Wave™ Evaluation of the Enterprise ETL Market is more appropriately named but kinda scary … I don’t know much about Forrester, but recognizing OWB as an option is a joke and Pervasive is given some credit – while pretty powerful, Pervasive is just a mash of some small scale tools – last time I used it, it requires multiple different scripting languages depending on the part of the suite you were in!
Tom Gleeson said
And don’t forget Talend, I’ve been in the DI/BI business for a large part of my 30 year career, and this is the tool I would have wished to have had access to over the years (especially when I was forced to use yet another “enterprise-class” 6-figure-plus, heap-of -… ).
Combine Talend with Groovy as its scripting language, add in Jetty to enable it as an Excel accessible web service,write one or two bespoke components, enough pretty screens to keep the suits happy, the ideal mix of structure and power.
Tom
>>> I agree! I know the Pentaho tool much better but Talend is impressive and has become a real contender in the last year – it is what I was (perhaps incorrectly) calling Jasper.