Enterprise Enabler

What Enterprise Enabler is

Enterprise Enabler 10 is data integration middleware from Stone Bond Technologies. It connects IT and business users with data held across different systems, and its transformation engine can federate live data from multiple sources and transform it without first placing it in a physical or virtual database. A data catalog gives users another way to find data in the product, while lineage shows a dataset’s origin, destination, formulas, business rules, and intervening steps. Fast Virtualization uses drag-and-drop modeling to create virtual models for BI reports, web services, and applications.

Security controls include data masking and obfuscation for partial or full user views. The product page says these features support GDPR compliance, row-level security, and column-level security. Listed relational database connections include Oracle RDBMS, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Enterprise Enabler is available for on-premise, cloud, and hybrid deployment; its cloud edition is designed to run without additional installation and setup. Stone Bond is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and says it has developed the product since its founding in 2002. A no-cost trial is available, with setup instructions sent by email.

Who it suits

Enterprise Enabler suits organizations that need to bring live data from multiple systems together for IT and business users. Its catalog, lineage, virtualization, and self-service portal are relevant to Data Stewards and Data Scientists who need to find, understand, and access data models remotely.

Limits

The lowest listed hourly-billed bundle, EE 10 Bundle A, includes 3 Data Sources. The trial is offered at no cost; no trial duration is stated.

Getting started

1. Visit the Enterprise Enabler website.
2. Choose a deployment approach: on-premise, cloud, or hybrid.
3. Request the no-cost trial and receive setup instructions by email.
4. For AWS deployment, choose an hourly-billed subscription bundle or bring your own license.
5. Use the self-service web portal to access and sanction data models remotely.

Verdict

Choose Enterprise Enabler if you need to federate live data across systems and give users tools for catalog search, lineage, and virtual modeling. Look elsewhere if you need more than the 3 Data Sources included in the lowest listed bundle without considering another plan.