what's new in centerprise 6.0
DESCRIPTION
Built for business users responsible for managing organizational information assets, Centerprise Data Integrator 6 has over 150 new features and enhancements that support Astera’s trademark ease of use and extensibility within a powerful, fully-functional environment Centerprise enables enterprises to solve their complex hierarchical data integration challenges such as building and managing data warehouses, integrating in-house and cloud applications, and managing integration with business partners, among other application.sTRANSCRIPT
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Centerprise Data
Integrator 6.0
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Connectivity
• Relational: all major OLTP and warehousing databases supported
• Flat: common flat file formats—fixed length, delimited, Excel
• Hierarchical: XML, EDI, JSO, and custom hierarchical files
• Services: SOAP and REST
• Cloud: Salesforce.com, MS Dynamics CRM, QuickBooks, social media
Scalability
Usability
• Empowers business users to manage information assets
• Intuitive drag-and-drop interface designed for business users
• Code-free development
• Single-click data preview
• High-performance parallel processing engine
• 100 percent .NET code: reliable, scalable, and secure platform
• Operates in batch, change, or real-time mode
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Server (.NET Windows Service)
Client (.NET Windows
Application)
Flow Docu-ments
Scheduler Integration Engine
TCP
XML
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• Hierarchical Hierarchical Data
• Hierarchical data is everywhere--web services, EDI, XML, custom
• Centerprise is designed for a hierarchical world
• Hierarchical-to-relational and relational-to-hierarchical mapping
• Hierarchical
Transformations
• Common—sort, join, union, merge, filter, route, normalize, denormalize, lookups, expressions
• Hierarchical—tree join, FOR-LET-WHERE-ORDER BY-RETURN (FLWOR), Scoped and Detached Transformations, in-database joins
• Database—write strategies, Slowly Changing Dimensions Transformation
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• Hierarchical Client (UI Studio)
• Integrated environment for creating data flows and work flows
• Job monitoring and other server interaction
• Communicates with server via REST or .Net remoting
• Hierarchical Server
• Runtime execution engine for integration Jobs
• Batch and real-time job management
• Scheduler, event manager
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Major upgrade: over 150 new features and enhancements
Dataflow Enhancements
• Scoped Transformations
• Tree Join Transformations
• Detached Transformations
• In-database joins
• Lookup enhancements
• Lineage & impact analysis
New transformations:
• ApplyToAll
• FLWOR
• Expression list
Performance enhancements
Server management enhancements
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Unique in Centerprise
Can be attached to a specific tree node
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Unique in Centerprise
Join multiple relational table to create complex tree
structures
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Unique in Centerprise
Create power validation and conversion functionalities
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Significantly improve the performance of data extractions
Option to perform In-Database joins within the database,
delivering major performance benefits when data from
multiple tables need to be extracted and joined
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Provide substantial performance improvements
for common scenarios
New Dynamic Lookup Cache
New Persistent Lookup Cache
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Visual graph of dependencies that enables users to
view the lineage of a data element as well as the
impact of any change to that element downstream
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ApplyToAll – applies single function to
multiple fields
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FLWOR - performs specific operations on a tree
structure
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Expression List - creates multiple expressions in a
single action. This reduces clutter and streamlines
dataflows.
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Enhancements to flow diagram, loading and saving
documents, and job management
New data types:
Time Span Data Type: interval and time-of-day processing
Decimal Data Type: added precision
Strengthened built-in functions: name/address parsing,
address correction, fuzzy matching, string, date, time
manipulation functions
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Unified server
management interface
Single view of all servers
connected to a repository
Shows server load, health
of individual components
Server event log
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Single view of servers
Server event log
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Scalability: enables distribution of components
across multiple servers
High availability: automatically reroutes
processing to unaffected servers in case of
power outages
Job management now includes job priorities,
moving jobs between servers, and more
Scheduler blackout time disables job for
specific periods
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Centerprise Data Integrator 6.0 provides key new features and functionality to Astera’s powerful, scalable, high-performance, and affordable integration platform
Dataflow enhancements with many innovative new transformations
Performance enhancements for faster, more efficient dataflows
Server management upgrades for scalability and streamlined job management
Centerprise Data Integrator 6.0 is now even easier to use and more powerful!
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