In 1997, Convoy Corporation of Emeryville, California introduced Convoy/DM (data migration). It was a software product that generated SQR ETL (extract, transform, and load data) programs, running on Windows NT, Unix, AS/400, and MVS servers. Convoy was founded in 1993 as an independent project management software reseller.

June 1999: New Era of Networks Inc. (NEON) of Denver, Colorado agreed to acquire Convoy for about $42 million in stock. Convoy’s CEO John Valencia became a Senior Vice President of NEON. Convoy had had $10.4 million in revenue for fiscal year ended March 31, 1999.

In third quarter 2000, NEON posted record revenues and earnings by selling software to other companies in exchange for equity in those companies; booking the sales as non-cash revenue. When this was disclosed, NEON stock dropped over 50% on November 21, 2000. In June 2001, Sybase completed acquisition of NEON in an exchange of stock worth about $373 million – a decline of 91% from NEON’s 2000 high.

So, if anything remains of Convoy/DM, you’ll find it at Sybase. The only other SQR code generator I know is Rwiz from a company called “Enterprise Information Resources,” but I think it generates report programs. There are other ETL products unrelated to SQR; I recommend you search the web for that acronym.

Update: You should also investigate SQRIntegrator.

Interesting blog that I stumbled upon today – didnt know people were still writing about PeopleSoft. Have a question: there used to be a tool called Convoy for autogenerating the code for interface SQRs. I am unable to find a download. Any similar tool that you are aware of?

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