Overview The number of tools on the market presents so much choice that it is often a difficult and confusing process to select a tool for data access and data warehouse. To make this process easier, it is worthwhile defining a tools taxonomy that can be used to seperate products into categories. Once this is done we can then look at the main factors influencing the choice of the tool in each category, the criteria for its selection and any limitation on its use. Selecting the right ETL product is hard, but very important, if projects are not to fail; many buyers struggle even to produce an appropriate shortlist. Eval Lite will help by providing the GUI Windows based application with a basic ETL Tool Selection Criteria. Unlike most other sources of ETL information, this site is not vendor subsidized and does not take advertising. (Except from our Domain Provider)