Comments on: ETL Subsystem 1: Data Profiling http://blog.todmeansfox.com/2007/12/07/etl-subsystem-1-data-profiling/ Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, SQL, Visual FoxPro. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:11:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Tod McKenna http://blog.todmeansfox.com/2007/12/07/etl-subsystem-1-data-profiling/#comment-4806 Tod McKenna Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:19:52 +0000 http://blog.todmeansfox.com/2007/12/07/etl-subsystem-1-data-profiling/#comment-4806 Hi Guru, If I didn't agree with you, I would have let my spam filter keep your post in the Ether ;-) But I do agree, and anyone interested in data profiling (ESPECIALLY if you are on Microsoft's BI platform which has no dedicated data profiling capability (don't let the 2008 SSIS Data Profiling Task fool you)) should consider Talend's Open Profiler. -Tod Hi Guru,

If I didn’t agree with you, I would have let my spam filter keep your post in the Ether ;-)

But I do agree, and anyone interested in data profiling (ESPECIALLY if you are on Microsoft’s BI platform which has no dedicated data profiling capability (don’t let the 2008 SSIS Data Profiling Task fool you)) should consider Talend’s Open Profiler.

-Tod

]]> By: Guru http://blog.todmeansfox.com/2007/12/07/etl-subsystem-1-data-profiling/#comment-4735 Guru Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:20:15 +0000 http://blog.todmeansfox.com/2007/12/07/etl-subsystem-1-data-profiling/#comment-4735 It's true that you have to "invest in Data Profiling to ensure integration success", but investing in data profiling does not have to cost a lot. Open Source solutions exist and can be trusted for their robustness. When you talk about data profiling and open source, one name comes to mind: Talend. Talend's open source Talend Open Profiler makes it possible to perform data profiling without being an expert. It is also easy to use, fast to operate and free to download. Talend has an active community able to solve problems and a special debugging team to quickly change features on updates. You can download Talend Open Profiler from http://www.talend.com/download.php It’s true that you have to “invest in Data Profiling to ensure integration success”, but investing in data profiling does not have to cost a lot. Open Source solutions exist and can be trusted for their robustness.

When you talk about data profiling and open source, one name comes to mind: Talend. Talend’s open source Talend Open Profiler makes it possible to perform data profiling without being an expert.

It is also easy to use, fast to operate and free to download. Talend has an active community able to solve problems and a special debugging team to quickly change features on updates.
You can download Talend Open Profiler from http://www.talend.com/download.php

]]> By: Tod means Fox | 34 Subsystems of ETL Data Integration http://blog.todmeansfox.com/2007/12/07/etl-subsystem-1-data-profiling/#comment-1144 Tod means Fox | 34 Subsystems of ETL Data Integration Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:33:41 +0000 http://blog.todmeansfox.com/2007/12/07/etl-subsystem-1-data-profiling/#comment-1144 [...] Data Profiling [...] […] Data Profiling […]

]]> By: Tod means Fox | ETL Subsystem 4: Data Cleansing http://blog.todmeansfox.com/2007/12/07/etl-subsystem-1-data-profiling/#comment-787 Tod means Fox | ETL Subsystem 4: Data Cleansing Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:24:36 +0000 http://blog.todmeansfox.com/2007/12/07/etl-subsystem-1-data-profiling/#comment-787 [...] quality issues will be discovered during data Profiling, which I discussed here. Other issues will be identified by business users who have had to deal with problem data in the [...] […] quality issues will be discovered during data Profiling, which I discussed here. Other issues will be identified by business users who have had to deal with problem data in the […]

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