Analyst Quote

The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) suggests that organizations that develop ad hoc ETL usually transition over to packaged ETL products when budget dollars become available. Still, for a significant number of companies, full-blown ETL solutions are overkill. [metaController] also gives data architects a drag-and-drop means to design and manage process flows between systems (including scripts, along with existing ETL or EAI tools) in the context of upstream and downstream process steps