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TimeXtender

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What is TimeXtender?

Data automation tool for building and operating data lakes or data warehouses with features for data pipelining, master data management, data quality, and orchestration.

  • TimeXtender functions (BARC classification)
Data Management & Storage
– Databases & Access Engines
– Data Intelligence, Data Catalogs and Marketplaces
● Data Operations
● Data Pipelining and Data Quality

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TimeXtender BARC Review & Rating

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Provider and product description

TimeXtender specializes in data warehouse automation for companies with 500 to 2,500 employees, especially those with hybrid Microsoft environments. Heine and Anne Bach Krog Iverson founded the company in Denmark in 2006 to automate complex ingestion processes that had bedeviled their former consulting clients. TimeXtender has since grown to 87 employees and more than 3,300 customers through internal development, acquisitions, a network of more than 200 resellers, and expansion into the United States.

Small and midsized organizations use TimeXtender to consolidate siloed tables into a data lake, model a data warehouse, and define data marts for multiple BI tools and endpoints. TimeXtender ingests and prepares multi-sourced data for BI and analytics in an extract, load and transform (ELT) or ELTLT sequence. For example, its graphical interface enables data engineers and architects to configure commands in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) or Azure Data Factory (ADF), then automatically generate and deploy the associated code. The TimeXtender product has an operational data exchange (ODX), modern data warehouse (MDW) and semantic layer. Together they help manage the lifecycle of data pipelines that feed ad hoc BI queries, reporting and advanced analytics. TimeXtender still supports scripting where necessary for customization.

In 2017, TimeXtender converted to software as a service (SaaS) and a subscription-only pricing model. The product offering consists of TimeXtender Portal, TimeXtender ODX Service and TimeXtender Desktop. It supports on-premises, cloud and hybrid deployment models, with a focus on SQL Server, Azure and now Snowflake. Most implementations remain on premises. TimeXtender supports most modeling styles and extracts data from more than 250 sources, the most popular being SQL Server, SAP, Dynamics, Oracle, DB2, REST and CSV. Supported targets include Microsoft SQL Server, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL Database and Snowflake. In 2023, TimeXtender released its GenAI-based XPilot to assist and guide users. It also acquired Exmon and BI Builders to strengthen its data quality, master data management, documentation and DataOps capabilities. We can expect the vendor to continue to add support for sources and targets.

Strengths and challenges of TimeXtender

BARC’s viewpoint on the product’s strengths and challenges.

Strengths
  • TimeXtender shines as an easy-to-use platform with a graphical interface and clear workflows. Both business and technical users find value in the platform and believe it fits well with their use case requirements.
  • Its automated platform provides great value and enables timely, successful projects. Customers have very few complaints about the product’s capabilities or their experience working with TimeXtender.
  • TimeXtender has a happy installed base of loyal and satisfied midsized enterprises. Across product lines, customers have the highest satisfaction levels with TimeXtender and recommend the product more than any peer offerings. TimeXtender also has the highest Competitive Win Rate.
Challenges
  • TimeXtender remains limited to Azure and Snowflake environments, and many enterprises have heterogeneous environments that extend beyond just these platforms.
  • Given its narrow market focus, TimeXtender has a small user community and some customers struggle to acquire product knowledge. They also find its functionality to be limited.
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TimeXtender User Reviews & Experiences

The information contained in this section is based on user feedback and actual experience with TimeXtender.

The information and figures are largely drawn from BARC’s The BI & Analytics Survey, The Planning Survey, The Financial Consolidation Survey and The Data Management Survey. You can find out more about these surveys by clicking on the relevant links.

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Why users buy TimeXtender and what problems they have using it

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Individual user reviews for TimeXtender

Role
Consultant
Number of employees
100 - 2.500
Industry
Retail
Source
Invited by the vendor, The Data Management Survey 25, 03/2024
What do you like best?

Speed of development and holistic approach.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

More integration with platform specific services.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Go for it, it does what it says.

How would you sum up your experience?

Awesome product, should have discovered it earlier.

Role
Project manager for BI/analytics from business department
Number of employees
100 - 2.500
Industry
Retail
Source
Invited by the vendor, The Data Management Survey 25, 03/2024
What do you like best?

Sehr flexibel und hohe Geschwindigkeit in der Weiterentwicklung.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Die Anbindung von cdata-APIs klappt häufiger nicht, sodass eigene Konnektoren gebaut werden müssen.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

PoC machen, Input auf großen Messen einholen. Nur echte Demos zählen, keine Werbeversprechen.

How would you sum up your experience?

Sehr gute Zusammenarbeit, sehr zufrieden seit über 5 Jahren.

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Survey Information
Number of reviews for TimeXtender
19
Reviewed versions
88% Version 20, 13% Version 10
Peer groups in the survey
Data Product Engineering, Data Product Engineering (Big Players), Data Warehouse Automation
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