Big Data
Corporations 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
IRI
Since the advent of automatic tuning in CoSort V10, it has been easier to work with the many available performance settings in CoSort Resource Control (which we call cosortrc or “RC”) files. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Oracle database connection issues can be the most frustrating part of application installation and implementation. The many options available with its JDBC and ODBC drivers can be daunting. Read More
Data Transformation
Forty years after the first release of IRI CoSort for CP/M, CoSort v10 for Unix, Linux, and Windows platforms was released in the middle of 2018. Read More
Big Data
KNIME is a leading open source analytic and visualization tool for data scientists. Wrangling raw data for KNIME projects is usually done via their intermediate file node, database connectors, or other extensions like Spark. Read More
Big Data
Production or test data targets, as well as the operational log data, created by SortCL-compatible data manipulation or generation jobs in the IRI Voracity data management platform and its included products (IRI CoSort, NextForm, RowGen, FieldShield and DarkShield) are all machine-readable. Read More
Big Data
This article demonstrates processing a web-based data source in the IRI Voracity data management platform. Static and streaming data defined in URLs — including flat files in formats like CSV or through FTP/S, HTTP/S, HDFS, Kafka, MQTT, and MongoDB — are supported by the default data processing engine in Voracity, CoSort Version 10. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
Power BI is a business analytics and data visualization package from Microsoft that can provide custom-designed dashboards and reports ready for web or mobile display. Like other BI and analytic tools, Power BI can also perform simple data wrangling jobs like sorting and aggregation before and after the data are displayed. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Note: This article covers the third available IRI customer method for statically masking or encrypting PII in structured MongoDB collections through the IRI FieldShield product or IRI Voracity platform (both powered by IRI CoSort v10 and its support of the native MongoDB driver). Read More
ETL
Batch files contain commands in plain text that can be executed by the command line interpreter of the operating system to accomplish a specific purpose. Windows batch files usually have an extension of .bat Read More