Data Transformation
This is first in a series of articles explaining how to create and use Flows in the IRI Workbench GUI for Voracity. Flows contain ETL and other data processing steps, and are illustrated in flow and transform mapping diagrams in the GUI. Read More
Big Data
Linear regression is a staple data analysis function for financial, economic, research, and many other disciplines, that helps discover new data correlations. Users of the IRI Voracity platform can now simultaneously process big data from any number of sources and present customized trend lines to help business users make predictions. 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
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
Data Quality (DQ)
Customers drive business, and they want to be understood and valued. That starts with getting their (only) name right, and having an accurate view of their transaction history, preferences, and related information. Read More
Data Migration
Note: This article showcases the migration of a relational database (RDB) model to star schema using the Eclipse IDE for the IRI Voracity data management platform (and its included products) called IRI Workbench, following an introduction to both types of schema. Read More
ETL
IRI RowGen users can generate structurally and referentially correct synthetic test data for an entire database in a single operation. The test data reflects production characteristics (such as values ranges and frequencies) normally encountered in database or ETL operations, but does not require access to, or the masking of, real data. Read More
Test Data
This article explains how to use IRI RowGen to create test files for prototyping COBOL applications running on, or off, the mainframe.
RowGen generates synthetic test data for file, database, and custom report targets. Read More
Data Migration
In the course of legacy platform and/or application migration, COBOL users often need to convert their binary and index files into a human-readable, ASCII-numeric target. One of these older formats is the ACUCOBOL Vision1 file, which we discussed previously in this article. 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