Centerprise Data Integrator 6.0 is a software upgrade that (1) provides over 150 new features and enhancements, including new dataflow transformations, performance improvements, and server management upgrades, (2) aims to make the software even easier to use and more powerful through innovations like scoped and detached transformations, tree joins, and lineage analysis tools, and (3) is designed to deliver a scalable, high-performance, and affordable data integration platform.

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Centerprise Data
Integrator 6.0

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Connectivity
• Relational: all major OLTP and warehousing databases supported
• Flat: common flat file formats—fixed length, delimited, Excel
• Hierarchical: XML, EDI, JSO, and custom hierarchical files
• Services: SOAP and REST
• Cloud: Salesforce.com, MS Dynamics CRM, QuickBooks, social media
Scalability
Usability
• Empowers business users to manage information assets
• Intuitive drag-and-drop interface designed for business users
• Code-free development
• Single-click data preview
• High-performance parallel processing engine
• 100 percent .NET code: reliable, scalable, and secure platform
• Operates in batch, change, or real-time mode
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Server
(.NET Windows Service)
Client
(.NET Windows
Application)
Flow
Docu-
ments
SchedulerIntegration
Engine
TCP
XML
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• Hierarchical
Hierarchical Data
• Hierarchical data is everywhere--web services, EDI, XML, custom
• Centerprise is designed for a hierarchical world
• Hierarchical-to-relational and relational-to-hierarchical mapping
• Hierarchical
Transformations
• Common—sort, join, union, merge, filter, route, normalize, denormalize,
lookups, expressions
• Hierarchical—tree join, FOR-LET-WHERE-ORDER BY-RETURN (FLWOR),
Scoped and Detached Transformations, in-database joins
• Database—write strategies, Slowly Changing Dimensions Transformation
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• Hierarchical
Client (UI Studio)
• Integrated environment for creating data flows and work flows
• Job monitoring and other server interaction
• Communicates with server via REST or .Net remoting
• Hierarchical
Server
• Runtime execution engine for integration Jobs
• Batch and real-time job management
• Scheduler, event manager
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 Major upgrade: over 150 new features and enhancements
 Dataflow Enhancements
• Scoped Transformations
• Tree Join Transformations
• Detached Transformations
• In-database joins
• Lookup enhancements
• Lineage & impact analysis
 New transformations:
• ApplyToAll
• FLWOR
• Expression list
 Performance enhancements
 Server management enhancements
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 Unique in Centerprise
 Can be attached to a specific tree node
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 Unique in Centerprise
 Join multiple relational table to create complex tree
structures
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 Unique in Centerprise
 Create power validation and conversion functionalities
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 Significantly improve the performance of data extractions
 Option to perform In-Database joins within the database,
delivering major performance benefits when data from
multiple tables need to be extracted and joined
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Provide substantial performance improvements
for common scenarios
New Dynamic Lookup Cache
New Persistent Lookup Cache
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Visual graph of dependencies that enables users to
view the lineage of a data element as well as the
impact of any change to that element downstream
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ApplyToAll – applies single function to
multiple fields

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FLWOR - performs specific operations on a tree
structure

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Expression List - creates multiple expressions in a
single action. This reduces clutter and streamlines
dataflows.

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 Enhancements to flow diagram, loading and saving
documents, and job management
 New data types:
 Time Span Data Type: interval and time-of-day processing
 Decimal Data Type: added precision
 Strengthened built-in functions: name/address parsing,
address correction, fuzzy matching, string, date, time
manipulation functions
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Unified server
management interface
Single view of all servers
connected to a repository
Shows server load, health
of individual components
Server event log
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Single view of servers
Server event log

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 Scalability: enables distribution of components
across multiple servers
 High availability: automatically reroutes
processing to unaffected servers in case of
power outages
 Job management now includes job priorities,
moving jobs between servers, and more
 Scheduler blackout time disables job for
specific periods
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 Centerprise Data Integrator 6.0 provides key new
features and functionality to Astera’s powerful,
scalable, high-performance, and affordable integration
platform
 Dataflow enhancements with many innovative new
transformations
 Performance enhancements for faster, more efficient
dataflows
 Server management upgrades for scalability and
streamlined job management
 Centerprise Data Integrator 6.0 is now even easier to
use and more powerful!
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