TDWI Summer

Prerequisite: This course assumes an understanding of relational databases and data warehousing terms and concepts.

Mark Madsen

This course provides an overview of ETL tools and technologies and shows how to evaluate them for use on your projects. The course describes the trade-offs between buying products and building your own ETL, a summary of products on the market, and the process and criteria for reviewing those products. It will help you arrive at a short list of tools to evaluate, and give you an idea of how to compare them.

You Will Learn

• How to make the buy-versus-build decision for ETL
• A process to apply to ETL tool evaluation
• Criteria useful for comparing ETL products
• Who the major competitors are in the ETL market

Geared To

• Anyone involved in the design or implementation of ETL for a data warehouse or business intelligence application