what are the different Reporting and ETL tools available in
the market?
Answer Posted / katelynthomas
ETL Tool is used to get data from many source system like RDBMS, SAP, etc. and convert them based on the user requirement. It is required when data float across many systems. Abinitio,DataStage, Informatica, Cognos Decision Stream, etc
ETL is extraction , transforming , loading process the steps are :
1 – define the source
2 – define the target
3 – create the mapping
4 – create the session
5 – create the work flow
ETL Tool is used for extracting data from the legecy system and load it into specified database with some processing of cleansing data.
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