There are now many sources of data management and protection technology -- from VC-backed or publicly-traded megavendors, to niche ISVs, to open source. Where does IRI position itself in this growing landscape of software and solution providers, and what makes us so special to our customers? In a nutshell, we're a workhorse, not a show horse.
Since 1978, IRI has preserved its purity of organically grown (and thus tightly integrated) solutions that are both optimized for performance in volume and priced below high-overhead competitors. At the same time, the company makes the most of open source technologies like Eclipse while leveraging internal and partner innovations to combine best-in-class functionality with unmatched versatility and ergonomics.
We keep our focus on what we can do, not say. The long history of proven software performance and personalized professional service that IRI and its worldwide partners provide speaks for itself.
Here are some of our differentiation details:
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IRI software is: |
How So? Who says? |
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Faster |
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| Easier to configure and run |
Compare the familiar Eclipse GUI and self-documenting 4GL metadata in IRI Voracity (and its compatible subset products) to complex ETL platforms and the skills gap and failure rates around Hadoop and multiple tools. Analysts advised IRI to, and confirmed that Voracity can, supplant multi-tool complexity. |
| Richer in feature-functionality |
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| Affordable to own and use |
Compare the 4- and 5-figure costs of perpetual-use or subscription IRI software with 6- and 7-figure ETL tools, in-memory and columnar databases, ELT appliances, Hadoop, and insecure cloud solutions. Rather than throw hardware at the problem of big data or get stuck with megavendor agendas, these customers use faster, more scalable IRI software to save money. Compare Voracity to the cost of separate tools for data profiling and search, reporting and analytics, data wrangling and ETL, data quality and MDM, data masking and risk-scoring, data migration and replication, and test data management! |
What else sets IRI apart? A very long record of technological vision, development agility, and customer support that now culminates in the IRI Voracity platform. Consider these:
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IRI Company Attributes |
IRI Customer Advantages |
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| 45+ year focus on speed, ease, versatility, value | SLAs met. Simplicity, extensibility, and peace of mind |
| Handling big data long before it was called big data | Predictable, scalable production performance |
| First sort and data transformation products for Unix | Reliability of open systems, not open source |
| First to join, aggregate, report, and mask data in files | Built-in features like CDC and BI are easy and free |
| Develops all software from common source code | One 4GL = one learning curve and shared metadata |
| Dedication to file system methods that work better | Investing in proven performance, not hype (and failure) |
| Support for more than 150+ file formats & data types | No concern about having data too foreign to process |
| Script-based approach, even under Eclipse | Ergonomic job design and full runtime portability |
| Exposes metadata and does not restrict its use | No worries about learning, using, or converting jobs |
| Extensive, worldwide support network | Local licensing and technical services |
| Committed to fair, perpetual-use licensing | Faster ROI and lower TCO |
