Ed Elliott has a new tool available:
The main part of the UI is a graphical map of the objects in a package. I have spent quite a lot of time trying to think of a better way of showing the elements that make up a package, and it is hard to argue with the workflow approach, all the ETL tools I found do the same thing and visualizing packages as a series of interconnected tasks is useful but maybe not everything and the only way.
Because of all these issues I have really tried to stay away from SSIS development and looked for other solutions such as using biml to write packages or writing code in other languages but I keep coming back to the fact that the SSIS engine is great at what it does and if you have a lot of data or a lot of files/tables then writing a similar framework would be a lot of wasted effort. So, how can we use the SSIS engine but make better, more efficient use of our development time?
Click through to see a couple of screenshots as well as a link to download K-SSIS.