Data Integration

Watch out Trading Shop…there’s a horse bathing upstream! Financial trading companies are fascinating in that the value of the organization is determined not by physical inventory, but by deals with counterparties whose values fluctuates daily based on external market factors. These deals, or trades, are stored electronically in multiple systems for multiple business purposes. Initially […]

Extract, Transform and Load – Same Syntax, Different Semantics Our customers use K3 to connect systems efficiently and to consolidate data across a number of systems. Often when evaluating options, they say to us “Of all the ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) software options, yours is by far the easiest and most cost-effective!” Music to

Next Named Storm – No SQL This post is actually a response to a very thoughtful article by Merv Adiran and Ted Friedman over at Gartner. Their point, which is a very important one, is that a platform does not make a solution.  For example, some keen developers are using Hadoop as an integration tool.

Opinion | Greasing ‘it’ – Divide between Business and IT I was having coffee with a friend of mine who is a commercial pilot. With as much flying as I do it’s hard not to ask him a ton of stupid flying questions. We got onto the subject of landing. His point was, “Too many