Data Integration Companies To Watch

In my last post, I spoke about several BI companies that are well worth keeping an eye on, especially those that are offering much lower cost, easy to use SaaS based solutions that are helping enterprises overcome the complexities found in legacy BI solutions. Like these new BI players, a new round of Enterprise Data Integration companies are emerging that are definitely worth keeping an eye on. Again, just like the new BI players, these data integration players are providing lower price and easier to use solutions that are gaining rapid adoption. These include open source players Talend and Apatar. In addition, there is word on the street about a brand new player emerging in this space called Expressor Software. Some say it is a next generation Ab Initio, a high end data integration player that has been around for quite some time. They are in stealth mode, so one will find it difficult to find out many details about the company and specificially what they are working on. However, they are worth watching.