Gartner ETL 2007 quadrant

["David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

Interesting marketplace analysis:

 http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/informatica/volume2/article2/article2.html

Good to see Gartner recognizing the importance of :

An open metadata repository, with the ability to share metadata bidirectionally with other tools.

Automated synchronization of metadata across multiple instances of the tools.
Ability to extend the metadata repository with customer-defined metadata attributes and relationships.

Documentation of project/program delivery definitions and design principles in support of requirements definition activities.

Business analyst/end-user interface to view and work with metadata.

Of course public open standard formats and specifications are the un-written enabler here!

; -)

DW