Data Security in the Business World: Navigating Challenges
Threats of data breaches and cyberattacks have intensified over the years. In 2025 alone, the total damage cost is already forecast to reach up to $10.5 trillion. Read More
A Data Mesh Approach to Consider
Abstract: Adopting a data mesh approach represents a contemporary solution to the challenges faced by traditional centralized data management systems. This article summarizes what data mesh architecture is about, and how you can leverage its key benefits using the IRI Voracity platform. Read More
Joining Flat-File & RDB Data: Textual ETL (Part 2)
IntroductionThis article demonstrates the Voracity user’s ability to join values in a flat-file file to those in an RDB (Relational Database) table to provide meaningful information. Read More
Textual ETL: Unlocking Unstructured Data
SynopsisCorporations and government agencies store a lot of useful information in non-transactional semi-structured and unstructured data sources. Finding that data – in documents, logs, and images – is important not only for data masking, but also for textual ETL. Read More
Navigating DPDPA Compliance
IntroductionThe enactment of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) 2023 on August 11, 2023, marks a significant evolution in India’s data protection landscape. This new legislation introduces stringent requirements for the management and protection of personal data and tries to balance individual rights and organizational responsibilities. Read More
Bloor Research on Data Classification in IRI Voracity
IRI Voracity is a data management platform that we have previously talked about at some length. It offers capabilities for data integration, data governance, data masking, test data management, data quality, data cleansing, data migration, and so on (and on, and on). Read More
IRI Voracity and Data Fabric
Innovative Routines International (IRI) was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Florida. Incidentally, IRI should not be confused with another venerable data-driven company called IRI (Information Resources, Inc) based in Chicago, which just rebranded as Circana after a merger. Read More
Prepare and Protect Data for AI with Voracity
As I’m finding myself noting more and more frequently this year, AI, and especially generative AI or “GAI”, is the new darling of the tech world, to the point that it has even captured the attention and interest of the general public (albeit not always positively). Read More
Running IRI Software in a Browser: Chrome Remote Desktop
Abstract: This article demonstrates the use of the Chrome Remote Desktop (RDP) extension from Google to run IRI Workbench and its SortCL-powered mapping, masking, and munging jobs remotely from a browser. Read More
The IRI Platform
Over the course of this blog series, we’ve described several data management capabilities, as well as why those capabilities are important and worth caring about. We’ve covered testing, both in terms of test design automation and test data management, data governance and data masking, data migration and modernization, and data quality and improvement. Read More
IRI Test Data Generation
We started this series of articles by talking about test design automation and the need to introduce automation throughout your testing processes. In this blog, we come full circle to talk, once again, about testing. Read More