SolarWinds already has a vast pool of simple, powerful, and secure software to help Windows-based systems administrators and developers manage their environments. These two new products strengthen its offerings for data and technology professionals adopting and implementing DataOps.

DataOps is a strategy many organisations and professionals view as their future, but training, education, and tooling have been found to be barriers to successful implementation in SolarWinds research, titled The SolarWinds Query Report 2021: Database Priorities and Pitfalls.

SolarWinds set out to combat these obstacles, and Database Mapper and Task Factory are the results - helping data pros master their environment, streamline data warehouse management, and develop and run data-centric apps in the cloud.

“To remain competitive, increase market share, and drive growth, enterprises must ensure they’re extracting sufficient value from data. This includes receiving insights faster, improving data integrity and resilience, implementing automation, and reducing human error—all while juggling data privacy regulations,” said Rohini Kasturi, chief product officer, SolarWinds. “However, without the right tools and processes, managing large, diverse database environments can be laborious and time-consuming. With Database Mapper and Task Factory, SolarWinds delivers powerful, easy-to-use solutions for implementing successful DataOps strategies so organisations can maximise the value of their data and cloud migrations faster and more efficiently.”
 
SolarWinds Database Mapper simplifies DataOps implementation by providing a one-stop-shop for data teams to easily maintain current documentation and visually track data dependencies and comparisons across the environment, streamlining business-critical data projects. The latest release of Database Mapper includes support for Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases.

It is available both on-premises and via SaaS. It allows teams to automate database documentation, generate metadata snapshots to compare over time, create searchable data dictionaries with custom annotation and personal identifiable information tagging, to analyse data lineage and show visually how it moves through an environment, and understand dependencies across SQL Server.

The software is also available in the Azure marketplace.

SolarWinds Task Factory is a low-code solution suited for developers who need prepackaged components for managing data pipelines. Development teams often face trade-offs between programming efficiency and application performance. With Task Factory, development teams can eliminate the needless programming of custom SSIS components and improve the efficiency of their data-centric applications in production — all without writing any code.

Task Factory enables developers and data teams to streamline data warehouse management and save time on tedious ETL tasks, simplify component loading with high-performing SSIS components, connect to multiple disparate data sources, efficiently develop data-centric apps, and run SSIS packages in the cloud.