Enterprise Enabler

Enterprise Enabler 10 is middleware for connecting scattered data sources while keeping integration, virtualization, and governance in one environment. It suits organizations serving both technical teams and business data stewards. The strongest case is live federation and virtual modeling; source-count bundles and hourly billing require careful sizing.

Overview

Stone Bond Technologies has developed Enterprise Enabler since its founding in 2002 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. The product can be deployed on premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid Enterprise configuration. A separate cloud edition is designed to run without additional installation and setup, which is a more direct route for teams that do not want to operate the platform themselves.

Enterprise Enabler connects IT and business users to data held in separate systems. Its transformation engine can federate live data and transform it as accessed, without first staging it in a physical or virtual database. That approach favors current cross-system views, but organizations wanting a consolidated warehouse-style copy will need a different architecture.

Category comparisons are available in Data Virtualization Software and Data Federation Software.

Key features

Live integration and virtual models

The transformation engine works across multiple live systems and supports SQL querying, scheduled queries, and API access. Relational integrations named by Stone Bond include Oracle RDBMS, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Fast Virtualization uses drag-and-drop modeling to create virtual models for BI reports, web services, and applications. This is useful when several outputs should share one modeled view, while the no-staging approach can reduce duplication for teams that need data where it already resides.

Catalog and lineage

An in-product data catalog provides an additional way to search for datasets. Lineage records a dataset’s origin and destination, along with formulas, business rules, and intermediate steps. Together, these functions give data stewards a way to find and explain data rather than treating integrations as opaque pipelines.

Security and self-service

Data masking and obfuscation can limit users to partial or full views. The product page associates these controls with GDPR compliance, row-level security, and column-level security; row-level security is also supported as a product capability. A self-service web portal is aimed at Data Stewards and Data Scientists who need to access and sanction data models remotely. That audience is a better fit than teams seeking only a developer-facing query engine.

Pricing

Enterprise Enabler is paid software with a free plan and a no-cost trial. The trial covers the data-virtualization product, with setup instructions sent by email. AWS subscription deployment supports cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud integration, with hourly or annual billing and a stated 25% discount for annual billing.

PlanPrice and termsIncluded scopeEE 10 Bundle A$2.17 a month, billed per hour3 Data SourcesEE 10 Bundle B$8.50 a month, billed per hour12 Data SourcesEE 10 Bundle BYOLCustom pricing, billed per hourBring Your Own LicenseBundle A is the natural starting point for a small integration footprint, but its three-source ceiling can become restrictive quickly. Bundle B raises the allowance to 12 sources for a broader estate. BYOL is for organizations that already hold a license and prefer AWS hourly deployment; it does not provide a published price. AWS Marketplace users also receive access to a quickstart setup service, monthly webinars, and a welcome packet.

Platforms

Enterprise Enabler supports API, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, web, and Windows environments. Both cloud-hosted and self-hosted operation are supported, matching the product’s on-premise, cloud, and hybrid deployment choices.

Who it's for

This is aimed at organizations that need live access across heterogeneous systems, reusable virtual models, and governance for business-facing data use. Data Stewards and Data Scientists benefit from the remote self-service portal, while integration teams can work with SQL, APIs, scheduled queries, and named relational connectors. It is less compelling for a small team that needs a simple single-source connector or a fixed-cost package without source-count and hourly considerations.

Pros and cons

Pros

Live federation and transformation avoid mandatory staging in another database.

Virtual models can serve BI reports, web services, and applications from a shared design.

Catalog, lineage, masking, obfuscation, row-level security, and column-level security address discovery and controlled access together.

Cloud, hybrid, on-premise, and self-hosted choices accommodate different operating requirements.

Cons

Entry bundles are capped at three or 12 data sources, so larger estates need a different package or BYOL arrangement.

Hourly AWS billing makes cost dependent on runtime, even though annual billing offers a 25% discount.

The free plan and trial do not remove the need to assess production source counts and deployment responsibilities.

Alternatives

Denodo Platform is a strong alternative for teams wanting a free Developer plan with one server, four cores, 50 data products, 2.5 TB per year, and unlimited data sources, consumers, and Data Marketplace users.

Teradata VantageCloud suits buyers seeking a freemium platform that combines Teradata Database with ClearScape Analytics and an Open Analytics Framework.

Virtual Data Platform is worth considering when user and Creator licenses or a dedicated deployment tier are the priority.

Starburst Galaxy offers a free tier with up to three clusters for ad hoc queries, making it a better fit for teams starting with query federation.

Stardog provides a renewable free one-year license with up to one million stored edges and three databases.

Apache Drill is the choice for free, downloadable software under the Apache License 2.0, with embedded or cluster deployment.

Presto is a free open-source SQL query engine that runs on premises or in any cloud.

QoreDB is a freemium option combining SQL and NoSQL engines with a free Core plan.

Verdict

Choose Enterprise Enabler when your organization needs live multi-system integration, governed virtual models, and self-service access across cloud or self-hosted deployments. Its main advantage is the combination of federation, catalog, lineage, and masking in one platform. Look elsewhere if your data estate will exceed the bundle source limits or if predictable, non-hourly pricing matters more than deployment flexibility.