DataStage XE, an integral part of the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite, is the industrys leading data integration solution. It delivers the capability to tightly integrate enterprise information, from across the enterprise. No matter what the sources. No matter what the targets. No matter what the time frames. Whether youre building an enterprise data warehouse to support the information needs of the entire company, or integrating dozens of source systems to support enterprise applications like CRM, SCM, and ERP, DataStage XE helps ensure the success of your enterprise data integration initiatives. CD1: Datastage CD2: Quality Manager CD3: Datastage Tutorial The Solution to Enterprise Data Integration. Any Source. Any Target. Anytime. All Built on the Most Scalable and Robust Data Integration Architecture Available. Ascential DataStageT, a core component of Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite, enables you to tightly integrate enterprise information, regardless of the sources, targets and timeframes. Whether youre building an enterprise data warehouse to support the information needs of the entire company, building a "real-time" data warehouse, or integrating dozens of source systems to support strategic business systems like CRM, SCM, ERP, BI/analytics, and e-business, Ascential DataStage helps ensure the success of your enterprise data integration initiatives. Ascential DataStage delivers four core capabilities, all of which are necessary for successful data transformation within any enterprise data integration project: * Connectivity to a wide range of mainframe, legacy and enterprise applications, databases, and external information sources - to ensure that every critical enterprise data asset can be used. * Comprehensive, intrinsic, pre-built library of 300 functions - to reduce development time and learning curves, increase data accuracy and reliability, and provide reliable documentation that lowers maintenance costs. * Maximum throughput from any hardware investment used in the completion of bulk tasks within the smallest batch windows, and the highest volumes of continuous, event-based transformations using a single high-performance parallel processing architecture. * Enterprise-class capabilities for development, deployment, and maintenance with no hand-coding required; and high-availability platform support - to reduce on-going administration and implementation risk. Ascential DataStage is part of Ascentials Enterprise Integration Suite, and is integrated with best-of-class data profiling and data quality and cleansing products for the most complete, scalable enterprise data integration solution available. Value to your organization: * Ensures that all business decisions are based on complete, relevant, and accurate data * Delivers information to business users in a form they understand * Dramatically speeds development, time-to-value and ROI of new applications * Provides a complete history and context of data for business and technical users * Accommodates unlimited data volume growth without requiring costly rewrites * Leverages and extends the value of existing integration investments * Supports Real-time data integration