Re: Integration Brokers are not necessarily related to X12 EDI or XML

[Chuck Allen]

Title: RE: Mercator

Thanks Anthony for making that distinction.    Some Integration Brokers have EDI to XML capability but there is a whole other class of products that focus on solving Gabriella ‘s business problem specifically.    Some of them work quite nicely and are complementary within the bounds of an Integration Broker framework.     Chuck Allen         -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Beecher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 2:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Mercator   Gartner placed IBM and Mercator alone in the "magic quadrant" of graph based on the parameters "Strength of Vision" and "Ability to Execute". The category was Integration Brokers, which is not necessarily related to X12 EDI or XML, so salt it ;).  Other candidates were: Microsoft, Oracle, STC, Forte, Tibco, SAGA, NEON(aren't they IBM?), BEA, Crossworlds, Active, Oberon, Sopra, Sterling, HIE, Sunguard, Viewlocity, Vitria, GEIS, Siemens-Fujitsu, Candle, Muscato, Extricity. The report was provided to me by, guess who, Mercator. Anthony Beecher   -----Original Message----- From: Rita Parrott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Does anyone know if the Gartner group or another objective organization has evaluated and published results?      Thanks and regards, -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Beecher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 7:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Mercator Not at all - Mercator is the fastest tool, hands down. If you don't use it correctly, you can create unoptimized situations. The strength of the tool is that it is so flexable, you can choose the most optimized method of acheiving your objective.   What Mercator is doing is creating an extract file. Then it rips through this extract file to transform it to your output.  Most likely you should pay attention to optimizing the query that creates the extracted data. Also if you are using ODBC, you might see a performance increase by using Mercator's native db driver for your database instead of ODBC. Anthony Beecher   -----Original Message----- From: Eugene Teo [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 12:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mercator I  notice some of you have used Mercator before. My office uses Mercator for our customers  but found that it runs too slowly. This is particularly true when the database is huge. One  reason  for  this,  IMHO, is because Mercator loads the whole database into their  own  temporary  files before starting the mapping process. This is one of the few reasons I found. Anybody shares this same sentiment? -Eugene ------   XML/edi Group Discussion List   ------ Homepage =  http://www.XMLedi-Group.org <http://www.XMLedi-Group.org>  Unsubscribe =  send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the subject and body of the message blank Questions/requests:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at: http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm <http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm>    ------ XML/edi Group Discussion List ------ Homepage = http://www.XMLedi-Group.org Unsubscribe = send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the subject and body of the message blank Questions/requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at: http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm ------   XML/edi Group Discussion List   ------ Homepage =  http://www.XMLedi-Group.org Unsubscribe =  send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the subject and body of the message blank Questions/requests:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at: http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm ------ XML/edi Group Discussion List ------ Homepage = http://www.XMLedi-Group.org Unsubscribe = send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the subject and body of the message blank Questions/requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at: http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm ------ XML/edi Group Discussion List ------ Homepage http://www.XMLedi-Group.org Unsubscribe send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the subject and body of the message blank Questions/requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at: http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm