Saturday 12 September 2015

ETL Tools: The Perfect Platform to Have Data Connectivity Solutions

Not to your surprise, ETL is powerful application that can simplify, automate and execute significant integration processes. The ETL tools are taken into consideration for creating and populating data marts from a line of internal or external database resources. Besides these, data conversion is the main feature of these tools that can convert any format into any. For example, XML can be converted into CSV, HIPAA into XML, HL7 into XML and a lot more.

If you look closely, then you will find that the main objective of ETL tools is to extract, transform and load records of data from source to another. Therefore, this accelerates the data integration process of enterprises. Given are the THREE main components of these tools:

•  Central Repository: This is the point, where all the rules and mapping objects of a business are saved.

• Design Studio: This offers wizard-driven and geo-graphical ability to the business rules, as these are related with the validations and mapping processes.

• Run-time Execution Engine: This is the point, where the flow transactions and mapping rules are executed, during incoming files or messages.

Now, have a look at the key capabilities of ETL tools:

• Data Mapping: The tools should be designed graphically and web-based, as these really make it easy to specify conversion, validation and cleansing rules.

• Data Schemas and Transport: Whether it is a Text, CSV, XML, EDI, HIPAA, ACORD AL3, or any Fixed-Length file format, the tools support processing of data in any format.

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