IRI
Information is the commodity of the 21st Century, and data has inherent economic value. But because information is not recorded on balance sheets, it is often overlooked. Read More
Test Data
IRI has completed its first Software Development Kit (SDK) for RowGen that Java programmers can call to generate test data dynamically in applications or across Hadoop nodes. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
IRI CellShield™ Enterprise Edition now offers an Intra-Cell Search feature that finds and protects sensitive data in unstructured cell contents with masking, encryption, or pseudonymization. Just as with full-cell values, you can now identify and mask the ‘floating’ sensitive data in Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets with only a few mouse clicks. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
There is now a bulk/batch Change Data Capture (CDC) wizard in the IRI Workbench GUI for Voracity, built on Eclipse™. This new graphical report builder compares previous and current data sources based on a flag field you select, and gives you the option of producing five different targets — Cumulative, Delete, Equal, Insert, and Update — or any combination thereof. Read More
ETL
In addition to running IRI software from the command line, in batch scripts, DBMS schedulers like Oracle’s, or through third-party workflow automation suites like Stonebranch Universal Controller, the IRI Workbench development environment now has a built-in job scheduler. Read More
Data Migration
A DSN (database source name) file allows multiple users to connect to a database with information in a flat file. It is used by the database client program — in this case, software in the IRI Workbench — to connect to a database. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Once a database exceeds a certain size, it becomes expensive — and risky from a security perspective — to provide full-size copies for development, testing, and training. Read More
Data Transformation
Beyond the client-side task launch scheduler provided in the IRI Workbench graphical IDE for Voracity™ ETL and sub-product users, server-side IRI job scheduling is also possible in simple tools like cron, and more advanced workflow automation suites like StoneBranch Universal Automation Center™ (UAC), CA Autosys, Cisco TES, IBM Tivoli, and ASC ActiveBatch. Read More
Data Transformation
During the design of IRI Voracity workflows in the IRI Workbench (Eclipse) GUI, you can preview the results of one or more transforms before saving or running the project. Read More
Big Data
Note: This example demonstrates a more direct method of using IRI FieldShield or IRI Voracity to statically mask PII within structured MongoDB collections. Our older how-to-article on indirect data masking of MongoDB through export/mask/import from 2015 is here, and a newer method through MongoDB’s native driver support in CoSort v10 from 2018 is here. Read More
ETL
Update: Q2’16: In addition to the flat-file profiling wizard in the data discovery menu group in IRI Workbench described below, IRI has introduced robust data classification that enables the application of field rules for multi-source data transformation and protection through data class libraries. Read More