Hello,
I have been tasked with researching DecisionStream. What it can/can't
do etc...

It would be very helpful if anyone here could provide answers to the
following questions:

1) Can it access data natively on all of the "big" RDBMSs (i.e.
Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, DB2, Teradata)?
2) Can it access ODBC data sources?
3) Is there any support for OLE DB?
4) Can it access flat files?
5) Can you load the data to any RDBMS or does it store stuff in its
own proprietary RDBMS?
6) Are there any platforms that it doesn't run on?
7) Any support for parallelism (a la Ab Initio)?
8) I've read that there is a connector for SAP R/3? Are there
connecotrs for anything else.
9) How doe it compare against other ETL tools (Informatica, DTS, Ab
Initio, Acta etc...) Any analyst reports would be useful here.
10) What are its big selling points (e.g. I've seen they are pushing
the auto SK generation feature)?
11) Anything that it can't do?


Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Thanks
Jamie Thomson
Conchango UK

jamiekthomson (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.uk (Jamie) wrote in message news:<6007d4b6.0404140623.762a992 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com>...

Jamie,
See replies within.

Windows only.
You can work on UNIX exclusively if that is your preference using
their scripting language.
ETL is concerned.

paschal.