ETL

The Challenge: A cost effective means to access & transform mainframe legacy data

When integrating legacy data into your data warehouse or data mart, an unfortunate fact is, many of the “standard” ETL solutions are complex, time consuming, and costly. For these reasons they are typically implemented only for the data sources judged to be the most critical, or sadly, the most accessible.

This situation is particularly true with respect to your legacy mainframe systems. Given the costs, you can only make a business case for the most valuable data, and even then you have to wait for the process to run its course.

But what about all the data elements that have value, but not enough to justify the expense of modifying your ETL processes? What is needed is a solution that lowers the boundaries to accessing your legacy data, one that is quicker and more cost effective, so that it is easier to make a case for accessing all of the data that you need, when you need it.

This is exactly what Arbutus offers!

The Solution

Arbutus specializes in accessing non-relational legacy mainframe and AS/400 data. Arbutus Integrate is middleware specifically tailored to move Legacy data directly to Windows server platforms. The solution is simple, powerful, timely and cost effective. Where your target is not Windows based, Arbutus can still read the source data, but instead provides it in any standard format for loading.

In addition to accessing the data, Arbutus offers semantic and transformation layers that allow the implementation of virtually any data interface or business rule. You are not limited to merely exposing the data, but can dynamically fit it to your needs.

Call Arbutus today, and let us show you how easy it is.

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