This is the first of two articles showing how to create and use job flows in the IRI Workbench GUI for Voracity. It follows two other series on creating flows automatically using new job wizards. Read More
The traditional or enterprise data warehouse (EDW) has been at the center of data’s transformation to business intelligence (BI) for years. An EDW involves a centralized data repository (traditionally, a relational database) from which data marts and reports are built. Read More
Has your organization considered using a data lake? This article explains what a data lake is, and how you can fish its murky depths for value in an architecture optimized for your needs. Read More
Very large legacy IT vendors, or what we’ll call megavendors, provide valuable hardware, software, and services to companies worldwide. Often however, their technical approach, product roadmap, and price point will not be the best fit for your use case. Read More
This is the second in series of articles illustrating on how to use existing IRI CoSort (SortCL) jobs in graphical IRI Voracity ETL workflows, or more simply, flows. Read More
Abstract: The IRI Voracity data management platform provides data integration tools, including data pipeline automation for high-performance ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) operations. This article is the first in another series on how to create and use high-performance ETL workflows in the IRI Workbench GUI for Voracity. Read More
Update Q3’2019: Subsequent to the development of the IRI Voracity Add-On for Splunk described below, there is now also a Splunkbase-registered IRI Voracity App for Splunk available for Seamless Data Preparation, Indexing, and Visualization…
After our first examples of external unstructured data preparation and PII data masking for Splunk generated interest in these capabilities, IRI wanted to develop a direct integration from the Splunk user interface (UI). Read More
Comparing Filter/Sort/Join/Aggregate Performance
ITKeySource, an ETL consultancy in Jacksonville, FL, recently benchmarked relative performance gains running IRI CoSort — and its SortCL program in particular — alongside IBM DataStage. Read More
IRI CoSort continues to be a low-cost way to accelerate Informatica ETL via pushdown optimization, and IRI RowGen can generate safe, referentially correct test data for any EDW. Read More
This is first in a series of articles explaining how to create and use Flows in the IRI Workbench GUI for Voracity. Flows contain ETL and other data processing steps, and are illustrated in flow and transform mapping diagrams in the GUI. Read More
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
-George Bernard Shaw
The mathematical symbol for change is the Greek uppercase letter delta: Δ. Read More