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Handling Discrepancies in Third-Party Data with Synonym-Driven File Reading and Mapping

Data is the lifeblood of the modern economy, and any enterprise that aims to gain tangible value from its information assets must learn how to manage and maximize the various inputs arriving across their functions. However, this task has become […]

Announcing the Release of Astera Centerprise 8.0: Paving the Way for Integration Innovations

In the past few years, Astera Software has worked diligently to strengthen four key areas in its data integration solution: ease-of-use, agility, scalability, and unified platform coverage. With the release of next-gen Astera Centerprise 8.0, we are pushing the envelope […]

Introducing the New Dynamic Layout Feature in Astera Centerprise 8.0

In a conventional ETL or ELT pipeline, all data mapping is tightly bound to a statically defined schema in which data types, number of columns, and column names are generated based on the original layout of corresponding source table. Under […]

Automate Data Validation in Astera Centerprise

Enterprise information constantly changes due to data updates, modifications, deletions, or querying, making valid data a necessity rather than an exception. For an organization to establish trust in data, validating changes is essential to ensure consistency and accuracy in reporting […]

ETL: What It Means and Why Is It Important?

IDC predicts that the collective sum of global data will grow from 33 zettabytes to 175 zettabytes by 2025. To derive value from this voluminous information growth, businesses are required to extract data from disparate sources and create an integrated […]

Astera Data Virtualization beta 2 release

Announcing the Release of Astera Data Virtualization Beta 2

The beta 1 release of Astera Data Virtualization had all the essential tools for creating, deploying, and delivering virtualized views of enterprise data. The beta 2 release goes a step further with improved security and performance in data virtualization projects. […]

Deliver Credible Results with ETL Testing Tools

Credible data is the fuel for business processes and analytics. A 2017 Harvard Business Review study found that 47 percent of new data records have at least one critical error. Adhering to testing protocols ensures such errors are eliminated when […]

Optimize Performance by Leveraging Subflows as a Source in Astera Data Virtualization

The success of businesses is deeply rooted in their ability to utilize the data at their disposal. And with enterprise data spread across different source systems, finding a strategy that integrates dispersed data without incurring high costs or too much […]

Optimize Dimension Management, Fact Table Loading and Aggregation with Pushdown Mode in Astera Centerprise

The vast majority of enterprises rely on transactional systems of record to drive their business processes. Online transaction processing systems (OLTP) deliver current, predefined data to users, and as such only support a limited number of data processing functions involving […]

Applying Data Virtualization in the Enterprise: Operational Data Stores

Operational data stores (ODS) are another key component in high-volume data architectures. Like staging tables, these structures collect heterogeneous data from across the enterprise but while the former is just used for data storage and cleansing, the latter provides additional […]

Tips and Techniques for Improving Pushdown Optimization Performance in Centerprise

The widespread adoption of cloud databases and transactional reporting systems across the business landscape has led to exponential growth in the volume and variety of data moving through organizations. As a result, analysts that were once tasked with extracting insights […]