Data Masking/Protection
Abstract: Previously the DarkShield API for Files could perform black-box redaction of primary account numbers (PANs, also known as CCNs) on credit cards only within defined areas in the image . Read More
Big Data
Finding and masking personally identifiable information (PII) in Snowflake® data warehouses works the same way in IRI FieldShield® or Voracity® installations as it does for other relational database sources. Read More
Big Data
Finding and masking personally identifiable information (PII) in Snowflake® data warehouses works the same way in IRI FieldShield® or Voracity® installations as it does for other relational database sources. Read More
ETL
Connecting to and working with data in cloud data warehouse powered by an AWS Snowflake database from the IRI Workbench IDE is no different than with an on-premise SQL-compatible source. Read More
Big Data
In the last couple of years since this article about the use of IRI CoSort as a parallel data manipulation alternative to Hadoop, IRI released the Voracity platform to process big data in either paradigm. Read More
Big Data
“That’s all you need in life, a little place for your stuff. That’s all your house is, a place to keep your stuff. If you didn’t have so much stuff, you wouldn’t need a house. Read More
Data Transformation
For the last 30 or so years, the precursor to most large scale business intelligence (BI) environments has been the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). A data warehouse (DW) is usually a central database (DB) for reporting, planning, and analyzing summarized, subject-matter data integrated from disparate, historical transaction sources. Read More
Big Data
“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
Big Data
Intelligent. Fierce. Powerful. Fast. Voracious.
Killer whales, or orcas thrive in every world ocean and in many seas. They are intelligent, lively, and highly social creatures that form close, matrilineal groups. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
Introduction: As with multiple BI platforms discussed throughout this section of the IRI blog site, this article analyzes the relative data preparation performance (and benefit) of using its external data wrangling engine – via the IRI CoSort product or Voracity platform — with QlikView when ‘big data’ sources are involved. Read More