Hansel and Gretel Explain Data Lineage?

The Camtasia Studio video content presented here requires JavaScript to be enabled and the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player. If you are you using a browser with JavaScript disabled please enable it now. Otherwise, please update your version of the free Flash Player by downloading here. // The importance of data lineage is in the news. Here’s a quick look at how data lineage and metadata relate to BI and… Hansel... [Read More...]

Data Integration and Web Mashups on Collision Course?

Here’s an interesting Techcrunch post on “5 Ways to Mix, Rip, and Mash your Data“. It includes Yahoo! pipes that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, but also several other ETL-like technologies. One in particular, called Proto, has the ability to mash together local data with information from the web (e.g. “map my Outlook contacts”), and the interface and choice of transformations (avoid null values, etc.) is very... [Read More...]

Yahoo! Pipes: ETL for the Web?

Yahoo! recently released Yahoo! Pipes, an “interactive feed aggregator and manipulator”. With a user interface reminiscent of enterprise data integration tools such as Business Objects Data Integrator, it lets anybody create RSS mashups from multiple different sources, complete with transformations and different output formats. Here’s a quick example of how to build one, courtesy of ComputerWorld. While it’s limited to RSS... [Read More...]