The benefits of big data are evident across today’s business landscape. The ability to house and analyze large amounts of data is providing businesses with business insight, cost savings and creating new opportunities for companies large and small. An important part of leveraging big data is effective and efficient ETL architecture and design.

B2B Commerce 360 Data Integration/ETL solutions consultants have designed and implemented ETL solutions for both Fortune 500 clients and mid-sized growth companies. Our consultants are specialists in tools required to extract data from existing systems, transform it into information, and load it into a dimensional data warehouse to create an efficient and effective business intelligence solution. Our expertise includes tools from Data Stage, Hadoop and Informatica.

B2B Commerce: ETL Process Management

B2B Commerce handles the entire data lifecycle with all the tasks that take place. So, what does this mean? 

Simply we’ll take care of your data from the source systems to the staging area, then from the Data Warehouse to the final Data Mart. A list of such tasks are listed below.

• Defining data sources and their relevant mappings
• Maintenance/monitoring of transformation scripts
• Creation of new transformation scripts for new business requirements
• Batch script Preparation
• Updating of mapping specifications with meta data
• Updating of monitoring and responsibility processes on source data changes
• Ensuring accurate/efficient ETL processes in production
• Recertification of broken ETL processes
• Updating of ETL processes
• Streamlining/ elimination of disjointed extraction and transformation programs
• Validation routines which check for data consistency between source and destination
• Performance tuning, error handling and interdependent scheduling

What kinds or types of solutions and approaches are available?

• Traditional engine-based ETL products
• Third-generation ETL solutions, based on a code-generation approach that uses the power of the RDBMS engines to perform the data transformations
• RDBMS proprietary solutions

B2B Commerce uses the COTS as well as Open Source technologies for ETL services: Some examples are:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2012 Integration
• Informatica Powercenter ETL
• SAP ETL