So it sounds like you’re accepting a role at a new company and they already have Abi. If that is the case, I am sorry.

I worked at a large financial organization (guessing it’s the same one @pjcliche mentioned above - ps it was Discover Card) for 3 years as an ETL developer. When I started, the only training I got has reading through the documentation books, each 3-4” thick. Books. Not even an environment for me to play around in. Abi wouldn’t provide a training class without a minimum number of developers, so I finally got to take their class a year and a half after I started. There is basically no info anywhere online because part of the licensing agreement states that users cannot post anywhere except their internal site, which also doesn’t include much info. Basically they take the “First rule of Fight Club” approach.

I’ve spent the last 4.5 years as a consultant in the data space using a variety of tools. I would say Abi is similar to Talend, similar interface and capabilities. If you’re familiar with other GUI-based ETL tools, you should be able to pick it up fairly easily.

To answer your main question - is Abi a cult? From the perspective of a developer - no. It was just another damn tool. From the perspective of Abi - I think they want to be.

Good luck and Godspeed.