Data Transformation
This 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
IRI Workbench
Editor’s Note: This article updates IRI’s original series on managing metadata assets in Git, and covers project export and import, particularly for use in enterprise data anonymization and test data management scenarios. Read More
Big Data
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
Business Intelligence (BI)
This is the first of a four-part series of blog articles examining the inherent tradeoffs between data processing and information storage and presentation within traditional ETL paradigms — from the ODS to the data lake. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
There are times when it is necessary to test with or share data that has elements of personally identifiable information (PII). To comply with data privacy laws and prevent a data breach, you may need to provide data that reflects, and sometimes imparts, critical information, but still protects the PII. Read More
Data Migration
The “New Reformat Job” wizard in the IRI Workbench GUI for NextForm converts files to and from a variety of other formats, including fixed and delimited text, CSV, LDIF, XML, COBOL, and more. Read More
Big Data
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
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)
A dimension is a structure that categorizes a collection of information so that meaningful answers to questions regarding that information may be obtained. Dimensions in data management and data warehouses contain relatively static data; however, this dimensional data can change slowly over time and at unpredictable intervals. Read More