Jitterbit Reveals Open-Source Data Integration Tool
"I see a lot more open source data integration vendors than customers today, but do believe these tools can offer add value for certain types of customers," said Rob Karel, an analyst with Forrester Research, via e-mail.
The tools are best suited for "midmarket companies with less complex requirements and smaller budgets, or departmental or project-based initiatives within larger enterprises," he said.
NASA's Integrated Services Environment (NISE) is using Jitterbit to handle data integration needs in its identity management infrastructure, pushing information from sources like human resources systems to enterprise directories, said project manager Sharon Ing. "It's all about ID management and provisioning of credentials."
Ing's group manages about 150,000 identities. Officials tested systems from large vendors before settling on Jitterbit, she said.
The tool is easy to use -- albeit for technically savvy people -- and its "cost was certainly attractive to us," she said.
