Author: Irfan Ahmedirfan-ahmed

Businesses are increasingly adopting a data-driven culture. The significant surge in the volume of the exchanged data indicates that the trend is creating a paradigm shift – a shift from manufacturing to an information economy.

PDF (portable document format) files were developed in the early 1990s to enable computer users with different platforms and software tools to share documents with a fixed layout of text and graphics. Because they are independent of application software, hardware, […]

If Shakespeare was an IT manager, the famous question ‘To be, or not to be’ would have been ‘To build or to Buy.’ In fact, the phenomena of DIY-ing something or buying a commercial product is not only limited to […]

Astera Centerprise has been verified for IBM’s ‘Ready for Data and AI’ validation program. 

ELT process complementing traditional ETL approach for improved performance and agile results Introduction ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and ELT (Extract, Load and Transform) are two approaches to data manipulation that are often mistaken for substitutes. The situation in which either […]

We are thrilled to announce that we are releasing a new generation of our end-to-end data management platform – Centerprise Data Integrator 8.0. Over the course of next few months, we plan on including several new features and make enhancements […]

Businesses collect data from disparate sources in a variety of formats. To make sense of this data and extract value out of it, enterprises employ different data integration tools that bring data at one place for transforming and loading to […]

It was a particularly happening year for Astera Software as our team attended TDWI Anaheim and Big Data Toronto conferences. The focus of the conferences was to bring data professionals together and promote discussions that can pave the way for future technologies and advancements in the data management domain.

Astera Software, a data management solutions provider, has recently partnered with Affirma, a US technology consulting company, to extend data management and business intelligence solutions to clients. The synergy is intended to benefit business users through an all-in-one data solution […]

Team Astera participated in Big Data Toronto 2018 as an exhibitor and had a truly great experience networking with data scientists, practitioners, and thought leaders from across North America and beyond. We took the opportunity to introduce our end-to-end, agile […]

TDWI Anaheim Conference 2018 has been a truly transformative journey for Team Astera. We attended several talking sessions, had one-on-one meetings with thought leaders and industry experts, and received a positive response for our products, especially our end-to-end data warehouse […]

Decisions need to be made in real-time to avoid losing fruitful opportunities. These decisions are mostly backed by the ever-increasing amount of data within an organization. Organizations lose out on opportunities due to the inaccessibility of data/insights to business users; […]

We are releasing Centerprise Data Integrator 7.5 very soon, and as with every new release, our focus is to improve the product experience for our customers. We have added new features and have made improvements to the existing ones in the upcoming build.

How does Pushdown Optimization mode work in Centerprise? Moving data, containing millions of records, between source, ETL server, and target database can be a time-consuming process. When source and target database reside on the same server, unnecessary data movements and […]

Practical business intelligence demands proper data collection and integration processes. Modern businesses receive data in different formats from various communication protocols when efficient collaboration and tracking of data exchanges are more important than ever before. As data increases, the maintenance […]