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
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
Data Masking/Protection
This article looks at sets from an informational processing perspective; what they are; how they are constructed; and, distinct ways in which data can be drawn from sets within IRI software products using the SortCL data definition and processing program; i.e., Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Editors Updates: Q2’16: In addition to the database 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
Big Data
To compete effectively, business users must be able to rapidly produce and present accurate, concise, and compliant information. Whether the analytic discipline is diagnostic, descriptive, predictive, or prescriptive, time-to-visualization matters. Read More
Big Data
One of the best ways to speed up big data processing operations is to not process so much data in the first place; i.e. to eliminate unnecessary data ahead of time. Read More
Data Transformation
Big data integration activities can happen outside the database in an extract, transform, load (ETL) environment, or inside the database in ELT:
http://www.iri.com/blog/data-transformation2/etl-vs-elt-we-posit-you-judge/
One example of an ELT operation would be Informatica’s Pushdown Optimization option, in which users transform data in a relational database like Oracle, or in Teradata. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
As IRI CoSort integrates and stages big data from a variety of sources, it plays a natural role in producing data for reporting and analytics.
CoSort not only transforms data for loading data warehouse tables, it can report at the same time, or feed data in filtered, aggregated, sorted, and properly formatted subsets (like .CSV Read More
Big Data
In 1992, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, long since acquired) asked IRI to develop a 4GL interface to CoSort in the syntax of the VAX VMS sort/merge utility. Read More
IRI Business
IRI Workbench is a powerful, and free integrated development environment (IDE) built on Eclipse designed for the user-friendly creation, management, and deployment of jobs in most IRI software products. Read More