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I'm surprised there's no mention of Ab Initio, which looks like [1], in these threads. AFAIK they were the pioneer in BI ETL while everyone else was copying.

Then again, they are pretty secretive, and that may be why I can't find any videos of the tool itself in use (edit here's one [3]), maybe due to copyright takedown requests.

That software was the successor of Thinking Machines [2], which was the hot AI company of the 80s AI boom. The software itself is quite good at parallelizing logic. And, the graphical front-end makes it easy for non-programmers to pick up the tool.

[1] https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FwFkbVFfnGQ/S1qa8lgcw4I/AAAAAAAAA...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlZlpsa0jyA

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