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What do you like best? Supports automation for many DW methodologies, eg Data Vault, Dimensional Modelling, Persistent Staging. Modelling is done in a very "business analyst" friendly way via Excel, making the model somewhat self documenting. It genuinely saves a lot of time. Despite the name, there is actually generally very little hand coded Biml required. The product has come a very...

What do you like best? It's built for the MS Stack. BIML is great and BIMLFlex is including most of the patterns we would have wanted to create. It's faster to buy than build. It creates SSIS packages that can be deployed directly to a SQL Server. It fits with our CI stack, without restricting our choices. It makes the migration path to Azure simpler. What do you dislike? It's...

What do you like best? Meta-data centric, automated, data vault support What do you dislike? Client-side Excel interface can be troublesome / cumbersome at times, visualisation of client-side modelling needs improvement. Recommendations to others considering the product. Great price point, great automation, great support/partnering with Varigence, start-of-life product lifecycle. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Automated data warehousing using data vault modelling for...

What do you like best? BimlFlex's relatively simple process to enter and record metadata which then directly drives the creation of SSIS projects. The tool is extremely flexible and has the capability of supporting systems not initially inside the scope of the software (for example legacy Oracle Databases). Additionally, I enjoy the ability to set up and maintain a Persistent Staging Area with the...