Apatar Open Source Data Integration Announces Alliance with EnterpriseDB

Alliance Enables Integration of Information in EnterpriseDB Databases with Information in Other Databases, CRM/ERP Applications, Flat Files, RSS Feeds, and Top Web 2.0 Destinations Without Having to Write a Single Line of a Code

February 5, 2008, Chicopee, MA - Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, today announced a technology and marketing alliance with EnterpriseDB, the Oracle-compatible database company. Under the alliance, Apatar will support EnterpriseDB’s Postgres-based database products as both sources and targets of data integration initiatives.

Integrating EnterpriseDB with a variety of data sources

Apatar is the first company to release open source tools for non-technical staff and customers to access the application data they need to do their jobs more effectively. Apatar enables its users to easily link information in EnterpriseDB databases with information in other databases (such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle), files (Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, CSV/TXT files), applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM), and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3, RSS feeds).

According to Gartner, corporate developers spend approximately 65 percent of their effort building bridges between applications. With Apatar’s visual toolset, EnterpriseDB users can perform even a complex data integration job without having to write a single line of a code.

Apatar will provide support, training, and consulting services to assist EnterpriseDB customers in achieving their data integration objectives.

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“Based on Postgres, the world’s most advanced open source database, EnterpriseDB products offer the reliability and scalability necessary for high-volume, mission-critical enterprise use,” said Bob Zurek, CTO of EnterpriseDB. “We are pleased to see leading integration providers like Apatar delivering EnterpriseDB-based data integration solutions. These solutions will offer real value to customers requiring a range of data and application integration capabilities.”

“We are pleased to support EnterpriseDB’s world-class database solutions as part of our integration practice,” said Renat Khasanshyn, founder and CEO of Apatar, Inc. “In today’s enterprises, most data integration projects never get built. The ROI (Return on Investment) on the small projects is simply too low to justify bringing in expensive middleware. Apatar entered this market as an open source vendor bringing the ease of drag-and-drop data integration, including with EnterpriseDB databases, to the companies that previously found proprietary data integration, ETL, and EAI software tools expensive and difficult to implement.”

“Open source alliances form the shape of a future IT market,” added Alex Khizhnyak, Apatar Evangelist. “Today, they help companies save millions of dollars. Tomorrow, they will be like oxygen to ISV vendors looking for the cost-benefit and flexible IT infrastructure.”

Apatar Open Source Data Integration benefits

- Reduce integration and maintenance costs

- Improve data quality

- Shorten implementation time

- Knowledge-workers can subscribe to secured internal or external RSS feeds aggregated from ERP/CRM systems, databases, personal and shared files, and XML feeds

- Synchronization across multiple interfaces (on-premises, on-demand, mobile)

- The ability to personalize feeds for workgroup collaboration, opportunity tracking, business and competitive intelligence, and project management.

- No coding! Visual job designer and mapping enable non-developers to design and perform transformations

- Users have the ability to create, publish, share, and re-use data transformations and output to RSS feeds by monitoring keywords and URLs for both internal and external systems

- Connectivity to Oracle, EnterpriseDB, Microsoft SQL, MySQL, Sybase, Microsoft Access, PostgreSQL, InstantDB, BorlandJDataStore, CSV, Qed, HSQL, Compiere ERP, SalesForce.com, SugarCRM, Goldmine, Microsoft Excel, XML, RSS, ATOM, FTP, POP3, LDAP, WebDav, Autodesk Buzzsaw, any JDBC data sources, Amazon S3, StrikeIron Web Services, DBase, and even Flickr

- Job scheduler

- Platform-independent, runs from Windows, Linux; 100% Java-based

- Easy customization, source code included

About EnterpriseDB Corporation

More information about EnterpriseDB is available at www.enterprisedb.com.

About Apatar

Apatar is the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market. With powerful Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) capabilities, Apatar enables its users to easily link information between databases (such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle), applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM), and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3). Apatar provides support, training, and consulting services for its integration solutions. Headquartered in Western Massachusetts, Apatar operates a development center in Minsk, Belarus. Apatar is currently used by 250 organizations and individuals worldwide. For more on Apatar, please visit www.apatar.com and www.apatarforge.org. 

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Alex Khizhnyak, Apatar Evangelist
Apatar, Inc.
Tel. (617) 848-5959
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