Industry Alliances

Capgemini has skilled up to represent and support IRI Data Protector Suite products to provide PII discovery, delivery, de-identification and deletion for GDPR compliance, And previously as AMS, CGI integrated and still supports IRI CoSort technology in its GEMS and Advantage Financial packages for educational and municipal data centers.

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Cincom integrates IRI CoSort technology in the Supra database for Unix and its Control:Manufacturing suite for Unix. IRI's relationship with Cincom began in 1989, and many Cincom users worldwide exploit CoSort functionality outside Cincom applications.

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A market leader in Apache Hadoop, Cloudera and IRI will provide customers with access to best-of-breed data management solutions at an affordable price point. IRI Voracity runs data manipulation, masking, and generation in Cloudera Distribution Hadoop (CDH). Voracity users in the Cloudera Enterprise environment will also be able to reach its data hub (EDH) from the IRI Workbench GUI for Voracity to speed insights from big data.

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IRI has been a TDWI promotional and conference exhibition participant, supporting the goals and messages of the institute. Click on their logo for more information on The Data Warehousing Institute.

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The Dimensional Insight (DI) "Diver Solution” enables decision makers across the organization to identify new opportunities, improve business operations, control costs, and increase performance. IRI's CoSort plays a preparatory role for DI's BI users by staging and integrating massive volumes of operational data in the file system.

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AnalytiX DS (now Erwin) specializes in the development of ‘agile tools’ for the data integration industry, especially in the creation and conversion of ETL data and job metadata. There is a uniquely tight technology integration for Voracity ETL metadata which lets: 1) Mapping Manager customers create ETL workflows in Voracity through familiar, spreadsheet-style, 'code-free' mappings in the cloud; and, 2) users of legacy ETL products convert many of their jobs automatically to Voracity, allowing them to finally switch ... saving huge amounts of money, and time, in data warehouse operations.

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IRI has partnered with the FortifyData platform and professional services team to measure and address a wide range of both data-centric and broader cyber risks.

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IRI has supplied CoSort solutions to the mid-range and enterprise-wide server market using both Fujitsu (Solaris) and Siemens/Nixdorf (SINIX Unix) platforms for years. Today, CoSort exploits PRIMEPOWER's 'eXtended and 'SPARC64 V' architectures. All core IRI products (CoSort, FACT, and RowGen) belong to FSC's Solution Partner Program.

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The IRI CoSort data transformation program speeds data integration and summarization in the Medicare fraud-detecting data warehouse software built by ViPS (which GDIT acquired), MCSource and STARS. With CoSort, GDIT clients in the health insurance sector benefit from much faster, state-of-the-art anti-fraud, claims processing, and medical management DSS applications.

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IRI is a member of the HPE Partner Ready for Technology program, after leveraging prior successes in HP's AllianceONE, Infrastructure Partner, Developer & Solution Partner (DSP), and Computing Solution Provider programs -- where IRI was one of the original, and premier, members (as well as a certified Level II Power Partner for HP-UX 11). IRI CoSort was among the first products in HP's Mainframe Alternatives Program, and the first commercial sort product ported to HP-UX on both the PA-RISC and Intel Itanium platforms. CoSort has also supported HP-acquired Unix flavors, including Ultirx/RISC, OSF/1, Digital Unix, Compaq Tru64 Unix, and, Tandem Non-Stop UX. CoSort is now also certified on HP-UX 11i v3, and of course, all flavors of Linux and Windows on HP hardware.

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IRI's total data management platform, Voracity, integrates with Hadoop and the Hortwonworks Data Platform (HDP) through YARN. Specfiically, Voracity and HDP technology combine seamlessly in the IRI Workbench GUI for Voracity, built on Eclipse, to give big data and ETL architects the ability to: 1) design jobs in a modern, ergonomic ETL environment; 2) leverage the power and scalability of batch transformations in Tez; and 3), eliminate the complexity of Hadoop programming.

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iDashboards is a best-in-class enterprise dashboard solution that empowers organizations with real-time business intelligence. Through one, easy-to-use interface, iDashboards gives decision makers access to key performance indicators (KPI) and metrics needed to monitor operations, improve performance, and align strategic objectives with day-to-day activities. IRI CoSort's high-performance data preparation for BI ("data franchising) creates subsets that iDashboard rapidly display in charts, KPIs, etc.

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IRI is a Premier Partner in the Intel® Software Partner Program for HP-UX 11i and Linux64 operating systems. IRI customers may achieve dramatic performance gains in very large database, data warehouse, and BI (data wrangling) operations using x86 multi-core and Itanium 2 processors in multi-threaded mode.

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IRI has been an IBM Business Partner for decades. IRI CoSort was the first commercial sort product ported to IBM AIX -- to the RT in 1987, the RS/6000 in 1989, the ES/9000 in 1991, OS/390 in 1997, POWER3-6, Linux and OS/400 PASE for the iSeries in 2001, Linux on zSeries mainframe partitions in 2003, and Linux on pSeries in 2004. CoSort was certified "ServerProven" and is listed with IBM's National Solutions Center and PartnerWorld for Developers programs. CoSort is the favored destination for IBM DF-SORT users in MVS and VSE JCL environments migrating to AIX, Linux and Windows. The IBM merger with Sequent also provided access to CoSort, the first sort ported to DYNIX/ptx, for the record-setting TPC-H DSS benchmark. IRI's Fast Extract (FACT) tool is now also available for DB2, and the CoSort Load Accelerator (CLA) library for DB2 replaces the sort routine within UDB 7-9's loader, speeding loads with no intervention or tuning. The exclusive CoSort sort stage plug-in for IBM Websphere DataStage -- and the MIMB metadata bridge between DataStage and CoSort file metadata -- improve transformation performance in high-volume data warehouse ETL environments.

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IRI's flagship CoSort data management software package is now "Ready for PureSystems" certified with IBM PureFlex systems IBM's family of expert integrated systems. This certification now allows IRI customers to develop and deploy CoSort SortCL program scripts that can operate and function in a cloud environment for data transformation, protection, conversion and reporting. IRI customers that use CoSort and its compatible products in the IRI Data Manager suite can address data warehouse extraction, transformation, loading, legacy sorts and data migration. For those that use the IRI Data Protector suite, they will be able to mask and encrypt sensitive data or other deterministic information requiring a content aware data loss prevention solution. The "Ready for PureSystems" certification allows the use of SortCL scripts to manage and process big, structured data and to develop applications for the cloud that will easily integrate with IBM hardware and software. Optimization on IBM PureSystems empowers our joint customers to realize improved time to value with faster deployment. Consolidated servers and application workloads achieve efficiencies in resource usage, improved performance, and reduced management complexity. The CoSort Virtual Appliance for IBM PureFlex System will also soon be available for download. Please call 1-800-333-SORT in the USA or email info@iri.com for more details. To learn more about IBM PureSystem, visit their website at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/puresystems/index.html

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IRI has been a vendor member of the International Oracle User's Group (IOUG). IOUG members: enhance their skills with technical content, increase their organization's technical advantage, boost their individual marketability, access a peer network for collaboration and information exchange, and voice opinions to Oracle about products, services and policies. IRI continues to exhibit at IOUG conferences and leverage its membership to assist in the development and marketing of its high-performance ETL and reorg technologies.

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Lyftron is a web-based data acquisition and movement platform with direct connections to hundreds of modern data sources. By exposing that data through normalized, ready-to-query relational formats, Lyftron and IRI can collaborate on the bilateral integration of their respective searching and mapping strengths. The partnership will enhance data source and target reach for IRI users, and provide Lyftron users with enhanced, Voracity-powered data mapping, masking, cleansing, and test data capabilities.

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MapR, now part of HPE, is a proven, enterprise-grade platform that supports a broad set of mission-critical and real-time production uses across financial services, retail, media, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications and government organizations. IRI Voracity, through VGrid for Hadoop, run jobs in MapR environments running MR2, Spark, and Storm, and it can process data in MapR Hive.

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Melissa Data provides data quality solutions with an emphasis on address and phone verification, postal encoding, and data enhancements. Melissa Data's data quality tools, including Address Object, can run directly with IRI CoSort thanks to the field-level transformation library support in CoSort v9's SortCL program. Through this integration, companies can plug Melissa Data’s data quality libraries into CoSort data transformation, reporting and security jobs, and run everything together in the same input/output stream.

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MITI is the leading "Metadata Component Provider" to major database, data integration, business intelligence, repository, and modeling tool vendors. Now among the many metadata migration links in MITI's Meta Integration Model Bridge (MIMB) software are export bridges to IRI CoSort's SortCL and RowGen data definition file (DDF) repositories. Now it is easier than ever to transform and synthesize high-volume file system data because the metadata ETL architects already own can be automatically created for CoSort tool use without cumbersome manual redefinitions.

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IRI is a member of the Micro Focus TechLink Program, and provides both Windows and Unix users with faster drop-in replacements for MF COBOL's sort verb and runtime system sort in the Workbench, Net Express, and Server Express environments, as well as the ACUCOBOL-GT sort verb. The SortCL program in IRI CoSort can collate and convert MF and ACUCOBOL data types plus MF variable length, MF-ISAM and Vision index files. COBOL programmers can call SortCL and other CoSort (system and library) routines for faster sorting, data transformation, and reporting. IRI RowGen creates safe, realistic COBOL test files, and IRI FieldShield masks PII in COBOL files via encryption, pseudonymization, redaction, etc.

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Following several successful ports of IRI CoSort to SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES v7-10) platforms -- including Intel and IBM's POWER 5 -- IRI joined Novell's PartnerNet program and had CoSort "YES! Certified" for SLES 9, further opening CoSort's marketability for high-performance sorting and ETL operations in Linux server environments.

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As the first commercial sort package available for MS-DOS, OS/Warp, and Windows, IRI CoSort is recommended by Microsoft consultants, Intel Labs, and PC Week as one of the fastest and most robust sort solutions for mainframe sort migration work and SQL Server loads. IRI frequently participates in Microsoft Developer Network programs.

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IRI was accepted into the MongoDB Partner Program in 2015 to develop API level connectivity to this popular NoSQL database in support of IRI's big data management initiatives. IRI software can integrate, migrate, govern, and analyze data in MongoDB collections for ETL and data replication, data masking and test data generation projects, and business intelligence .

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NatWorks is a leading developer of data access solutions for Software AG's ADABAS database management system. NatQuery provides a comprehensive data and metadata extraction solution for ADABAS. For Change Data Capture, NatWorks offers NatCDC, which handles ADABAS Protection Logs (PLOGS). NatQuery and NatCDC integrate with IRI CoSort to help provide end-to-end data management for Software AG customers.

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IRI provides compatible sorting functionality for UniKix Mainframe Rehosting Software. IRI CoSort has been a key part of the its Mainframe Reference Architecture for years, and has proven its success in many UniKix Batch Processing Environment and UniKix Transaction Processing Environment software implementations. The expansive functionality of CoSort also affords NTT Data customers with opportunities to modernize their data processing, presentation, protection and prototyping tasks.

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OpenText and IRI have teamed up to offer seamless, end-to-end big data preparation and visualization in Eclipse, through an API-level integration between the IRI CoSort (Voracity) data wrangling engine and the Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT).

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IRI is an Oracle partner and member of the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). IRI Fast Extract (FACT) software rapidly unloads large Oracle tables to flat files for ETL, reorgs, migrations, archival and reporting. FACT also creates the metadata for immediate CoSort transformations, reports, and pre-load sorts -- as well as SQL*Loader control files -- so that Oracle DBAs and DW architects can stage and populate huge Oracle tables as fast as possible. IRI FieldShield protects PII in Oracle databases en masse and with multiple protection functions, while RowGen can use Oracle DDL information to create and load intelligent, pre-sorted test data in structurally and referentially correct DB, DW, and Data Vault targets. The IRI Voracity data management platform -- which supports all of the above -- can also be used for fast ETL and ELT operations, data quality, analytic data wrangling (e.g., for OBIEE and Oracle DVD), and database migration for the benefit of Oracle sites.

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As the first open systems sort and ETL accelerator to support Linux on Intel x86, Itanium, RISC, and IBM iSeries and zSeries mainframe partitions, IRI CoSort supports Red Hat Linux on all platforms. Registered in the Red Hat Alliance program, IRI's CoSort and FAst extraCT (FACT) solutions are not only compatible, but demonstrate beautifully and rapidly together on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems running Oracle 9i.

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IRI was one of Sun's first catalyst program members, a strategic member of Sun's iForce partner program, Sun Developer Connection, and is now a principal member of the Sun Partner Advantage Program. Recommended worldwide by Sun engineers and segment managers "in the data center" and "data warehouse / decision support" since 1987, IRI CoSort is widely licensed today on UE and SunFire hardware. Sun's has enabled CoSort for VSAM collation and conversion in its Mainframe Transaction Processing (MTP) and Mainframe Batch Manager (MBM) programs.

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IRI is a member of the Splunk Technology Alliance Program (TAP), supporting our ability to provide Splunk analytic and security users with automatic data feeds from myriad data discovery, masking, wrangling, and logging operations.

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IRI and Townsend Security built support for FieldShield (and soon DarkShield) encryption key management through the Townsend Alliance Key Manager (AKM) platform. The integration allows data masking users to store and retrieve authenticated decryption keys from its HSM, VM, and cloud platforms, and by so doing, achieve compliance with many security industry standards for key management.

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Trillium Software® delivers robust, comprehensive data quality solutions for the world's leading banks, insurance companies, government agencies, and technology providers. Its software and services discover and correct data quality problems, and create platforms prepared for tomorrow's yet unknown data challenges. Trillium Software and IRI are working to combine Trillium's Total Data Quality with CoSort's fast data transformations across the enterprise.

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IRI has partnered with Windocks to clone and provision virtual databases safe for testing. The joint test repository contains writable, production grade images with masked, subsetted, or synthesized data inside containers or web-served images.

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