Enterprise Data Integration: BusinessObjects Data Integrator

Access, Integrate, and Deliver Data Across the Enterprise

Accessing and integrating data from disparate sources can be a lengthy process and account for more than 50% of the cost of a data warehouse or analytic application project. That time and cost can be dramatically reduced with BusinessObjects Data Integrator, helping businesses rapidly transform data into a corporate asset.

Data Integrator is the industry's first real-time and batch ETL tool designed to simplify and speed data movement and sharing across the enterprise.

A single ETL tool for all your data integration requirements.

Data Integrator helps organizations access, integrate, and deliver data by being:

• Easy-to-use
• Powerful
• Enterprise-class

Easy-to-Use: Improve Your Time to Value

Designed to improve your time to value, this ETL tool provides a single, easy-to-use platform for building and managing complex data integration projects.

Graphical Design, Test, and Debug Environment
Data Integrator gives data analysts the ability to build business logic by dragging data objects - tables, PeopleSoft trees, SAP R/3 hierarchies, and more - into a single workspace. Once there, mapping and transformation logic can be created visually, enabling step-by-step testing and debugging of the business logic.
Code-Free Creation of Complex Business Logic
This graphical design environment, plus a wide range of Interfaces to data stores, and an extensive library of transformation functions, eliminates the need for custom coding.

Open Metadata Repository and Management
User-created and predefined system objects, metadata, and transformation rules are all stored in an open repository, allowing tight integration between enterprise applications and business intelligence (BI) tools. Native metadata connectivity is supported to enterprise applications from vendors such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and Oracle.

Powerful: Optimize Your Overall BI Infrastructure

The increasing importance of BI is driving complex and often mission-critical data integration requirements; Business Objects meets this challenge by providing a technically advanced and robust ETL tool.
Real-Time and Batch Data Movement

Data Integrator is unique in providing not only enterprise-class, batch data movement technology, but also meeting the needs of bi-directional, real-time data integration, all within a single environment. This allows organizations to complement traditional analytic data with real-time updates of fast changing data.

Extensive Library of Transformation Functions
Building on industry best practice and many years of experience working with customers, Data Integrator provides an extensive library of prebuilt transformation functions to meet the needs of the widest possible range of data integration projects.

Scalable, High Performance Architecture
Data Integrator provides high performance and scalability. Performance optimization assigns complex data flows to multiple threads taking advantage of parallel processing. Multiple jobs run simultaneously on a single server, while multiple job servers can also run concurrently to give scalable capacity and resilience to system failures.

Enterprise-Class: Turn Data into a Corporate Asset

Having a single ETL tool that can meet all data integration requirements is critical to controlling costs and accelerating the return on investment.
Broad Source and Target Support

Bringing enterprise data together requires an ETL tool that can access all possible data sources. Through prebuilt Interfaces, Data Integrator supports traditional databases, emerging standards like XML and Web Services, extraction from enterprise applications from SAP, PeopleSoft, and Siebel, as well as mainframe systems.

Multi-User, Multi-Project Environment
Data Integrator development teams can take advantage of a multi-user environment, where data objects held in the central repository are shared and reused by team members. This results in reduced workload and an improved level of consistency across the enterprise.

Centralized, Secure Web Administration
Centralized, secure web administration allows users to monitor and control all Data Integrator servers through a single interface independent from the design environment. This enables role-level security on data integration jobs, so that administrators only access what they need to control. Support for SNMP enables Data Integrator jobs to be scheduled and monitored from standard network management programs.