Who will use ProfileStage?

[olgc]

Hi there,

Who will use ProfileStage: Data Modeller or ETL developer? At which stage or stages of your project, do you use ProfileStage: project analyzing stage, data model, or ETL coding?

Thanks,

[rhys.jones@target.com]

Hi there,

Who will use ProfileStage: Data Modeller or ETL developer? At which stage or stages of your project, do you use ProfileStage: project analyzing stage, data model, or ETL coding?

Thanks,

Yes and yes. Your data modeller and person developing your ETL designs will find it of most use. If you generate ETL jobs from the tool, then your ETL developer might find it useful to go back and see what decisions were made to generate the target DDL and jobs, but beyond that if they are profiling source data during construction, they've missed the boat. Really, you're going to leverage the most ROI by making data profiling a practice as early in your project's lifecycle as possible. By identifying your source data defects early, you can decide to address the problems in the source (retraining, business owners paying to fix the source, etc), or build a more intelligent design around correcting the bugs in your ETL jobs. This will save you more money in the long run, maybe even prevent you from making costly mistakes.

[olgc]

rhys.jones@target.com, thanks for your response.

Is ProfileStage rebranded from MetaStage?

[ray.wurlod]

NO. ProfileStage was previously a product called MetaRecon. It got the new name when it was acquired by Ascential. In the next release (8.0) the ProfileStage name disappears into an IBM product called Information Analyzer.

[olgc]

Is there a place to download a trial version of ProfileStage?

Thanks,

[roy]

You can see the post regarding DataStage in the FAQ forum.
The answer is the same for ProfileStage as far as I know.

By the way you kinda hi-jacked yor own topic !
wondering is it still conciderd as such if it's your own (probably)

[ray.wurlod]

None of the "Ascential" products is presently available to download as a "personal edition" for private study. I suggest that, if enough people make this request to IBM (for example 10 thousand from here), they might take some notice.

[ray.wurlod]

Note also that ProfileStage ceases to exist as a separate product in version 8.0. It, AuditStage, and some of QualityStage are all rolled into a new product for learning about your data. The name of the new product is IBM WebSphere Information Analyzer.