UI Walkthrough - Astera 8.0

Astera is designed to support the integration of complex and high-volume data. It is a powerful ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool that provides connectivity to all leading databases, and flat and hierarchical file sources, and even supports legacy systems such as COBOL. Moreover, PDF Form Source, Email Source, and Report Source enable users to extract data from a PDF file, Email, and Report Models in Astera.

It combines data profiling, data transformation, and data reporting in a single seamless user interface.

This document consists of a video that will walk you through the new and improved user interface of Astera and introduce you to its different features, components, and windowpanes.

The video covers:

• Items, options, and shortcuts available on the menu bar

• How to access important windowpanes and panels in Astera – Server Explorer, Project Explorer, Toolbox, etc.

• How to work with different flow documents (dataflows, workflows, and subflows) with their embedded features

• Tools and tasks specific to each of the flow documents (transformations, workflow tasks, subflow input/output, etc.)

• Options related to data profiling and data quality checks

• How to schedule a job and monitor it’s progress

• Report Model and it’s functionality in Astera