A client-server
software package published by Ab Initio Software Corp. Designed to facilitate
data extraction,
manipulation, and loading into
relational database systems. Used mostly in
data warehouse extract-transform-load (
ETL) setups. Consists of the Ab Initio
co->operating system, which is a
UNIX-based server-side execution environment; and the Ab Initio
Graphical Development Environment (
GDE), a
Windows-based client for
designing,
coding,
maintaining and
executing Ab Initio "
graphs" (
programs).