I was looking for a good ETL tool for my School District Project. Our budget was limited as I have taken up a project to build a EDW with a Shoe String Budget. So saving every penny is part of my project goals. At the same time, I want all the products to be salable, reliable and have high standards. I had the a list of criteria for the ETL product selection. Additional to the cost, I have looked at functionality, support and warranty, availability and adaptability. Centerprise Data Integrator was not in my original list as I was not heard this before. When I saw this name on my search, I did not had high hopes. But included in the mix of my tool comparison. We bought the product and we are very happy with it. I was surprised with its functionality. It is a very easy to use product and easy to learn. Further I am surprised with their product support. I am planning to use Centerprise Data Integrator for my future projects.

The product allowed us to have a low barrier of entry to create ETL packages for our data warehouse and analytics platform. It also opens up integration between our already-owned assets. We can create high quality data integration without needing to have staff highly trained in SQL and SSIS. This has enabled multiple teams and users in our agency to be able to create solutions that would've taken us months to create before.

Centerprise Data Integrator from Astera has provided us with a universal toolkit for dealing with any of our data. We are a large Federally Qualified Health Center, servicing over 70,000 patients a year. We've recently started to launch a data warehouse and an analytics platform. Centerprise Data Integrator has been crucial to the success of these projects by providing us with a simple toolset to create complex ETL's. We've also recently used this to take data generated from Citrix SecureForms and integrate it into our Electronic Health Record system. These efforts dramatically reduce printing, scanning, and shredding costs as we develop forms that can be filled out by a patient electronically on a tablet device. Centerprise Data Integrator is a tool that we know we can use in almost any project that requires the movement, cleansing, or translation of data.

We had some issues with getting the software to run on our Citrix desktop initially. We weren't quite able to have it up in time for our training classes, but support and our trainer worked with us to get these issues resolved. They made sure to provide us with the support we needed as we embarked on our first major projects with the product.

Pro: is the ability to quickly, and with little technical knowledge, start an interface in/out of any system. I can't stress enough that it is easy to setup, use, and create as many integration tasks as you need. Customer Service is kind and helping if you have an issue. Please look through their videos if you can't seem to complete your task. Con: Nothing too complicated please. A multiple step process in one work/data flow just can't be done. The amount of tiny pieces I need to create to acheive a more complex task is infuriating. It's almost exponential the amount of objects/workflows/dataflows needed for each workflow step that can't be cached into memory. And as for debugging, if you are doing massive bulk movements there's no way to preview your data before hand unless you know exactly which row it will be in in the `preview data` view. There is no filtering or sorting on the sample data.

We use the software for ETL and it is fairly reliable to run with minimal issues.

Software makes data integration very easy and comes bundled with many data transformation features for quickly setting up workflows.

Ability to direct logging to another tool besides built in logger.

Integrating clients data from their legacy systems.

Ability to easily apply SQL database functionality within a user interface. Manage and manipulate data from source to destination. Lots of built in functions you would expect to need in data tweaking. Can build custom expressions for anything not built in. Overall a great tool been using it for years.

Nothing really bad to say about centerprise. It literally took away the process of running individually SQL scripts of thousands of lines of code to a functional, intuitive user interface where you can easily move data from one point to another with a click of a button.