IRI NextForm Integrations

For over forty years, IRI CoSort has established itself as a leader in the realm of big data sorting and transformation technologies. With its sophisticated algorithms, automatic memory management, multi-core utilization, and I/O optimization, CoSort stands as the most reliable choice for production data processing. Pioneering the field, CoSort was the first commercial sorting package made available for open systems, debuting on CP/M in 1980, followed by MS-DOS in 1982, Unix in 1985, and Windows in 1995. It has been consistently recognized as the fastest commercial-grade sorting solution for Unix systems and was hailed by PC Week as the "top performing" sort tool for Windows environments. Originally launched for CP/M in 1978 and subsequently for DOS, Unix, and Windows, CoSort earned a readership award from DM Review magazine in 2000 for its exceptional performance. Initially created as a file sorting utility, it has since expanded to include interfaces that replace or convert sort program parameters used in a variety of platforms such as IBM DataStage, Informatica, MF COBOL, JCL, NATURAL, SAS, and SyncSort. In 1992, CoSort introduced additional manipulation capabilities through a control language interface modeled after the VMS sort utility syntax, which has been refined over the years to support structured data integration and staging for both flat files and relational databases, resulting in a suite of spinoff products that enhance its versatility and utility. In this way, CoSort continues to adapt to the evolving needs of data processing in a rapidly changing technological landscape.

IRI RowGen creates billions of safe and intelligent rows of test data tailored for various targets such as databases, flat files, and formatted reports by leveraging metadata instead of actual data. This powerful tool synthesizes and fills databases with accurate relational test data that mirrors the characteristics of your production data. By utilizing existing metadata or generating it dynamically, RowGen can either randomly create structurally and referentially accurate test data or select it from real datasets. Moreover, it offers the flexibility to customize data formats, volumes, ranges, distributions, and additional properties either on the fly or through reusable rules, which aids in achieving key objectives like application testing and subsetting. Powered by the IRI CoSort engine, RowGen ensures the fastest generation, transformation, and bulk loading of large test datasets available in the market. Developed by experts in data modeling, integration, and processing, RowGen is designed to efficiently produce compliant test sets in both production-ready and customized formats. With RowGen, you can easily generate and provision synthetic test data that is safe and intelligent for various purposes, including DevOps, database validations, data visualizations, and data warehousing prototypes, all without needing access to production data. This capability not only enhances testing efficiency but also significantly reduces the risks associated with using sensitive production data.

IRI FieldShield® offers an effective and cost-efficient solution for the discovery and de-identification of sensitive data, such as PII, PHI, and PAN, across both structured and semi-structured data sources. With its user-friendly interface built on an Eclipse-based design platform, FieldShield allows users to perform classification, profiling, scanning, and static masking of data at rest. Additionally, the FieldShield SDK or a proxy-based application can be utilized for dynamic data masking, ensuring the security of data in motion. Typically, the process for masking relational databases and various flat file formats, including CSV, Excel, LDIF, and COBOL, involves a centralized classification system that enables global searches and automated masking techniques. This is achieved through methods like encryption, pseudonymization, and redaction, all designed to maintain realism and referential integrity in both production and testing environments. FieldShield can be employed to create sanitized test data, mitigate the impact of data breaches, or ensure compliance with regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, PDPA, and PCI-DSS, among others. Users can perform audits through both machine-readable and human-readable search reports, job logs, and re-identification risk assessments. Furthermore, it offers the flexibility to mask data during the mapping process, and its capabilities can also be integrated into various IRI Voracity ETL functions, including federation, migration, replication, subsetting, and analytical operations. For database clones, FieldShield can be executed in conjunction with platforms like Windocks, Actifio, or Commvault, and it can even be triggered from CI/CD pipelines and applications, ensuring versatility in data management practices.

The IRI Data Manager suite, developed by IRI, The CoSort Company, equips users with comprehensive tools designed to enhance the efficiency of data manipulation and transfer. IRI CoSort is adept at managing extensive data processing activities, including data warehouse ETL and business intelligence analytics, while also facilitating database loads, sort/merge utility migrations, and other substantial data processing operations. For swiftly unloading vast databases for data warehouse ETL, reorganization, and archival purposes, IRI Fast Extract (FACT) stands out as an indispensable tool. With IRI NextForm, users can accelerate file and table migrations, while also benefiting from features like data replication, reformatting, and federation. IRI RowGen is capable of producing test data that is both referentially and structurally accurate across files, tables, and reports, and it also offers capabilities for database subsetting and masking, tailored for test environments. Each of these products can be acquired separately for perpetual use and operates within a shared Eclipse job design integrated development environment, with additional support available through IRI Voracity subscriptions. Together, these tools streamline complex data workflows, making them essential for organizations seeking to optimize their data management processes.

IRI Voracity is a comprehensive software platform designed for efficient, cost-effective, and user-friendly management of the entire data lifecycle. This platform accelerates and integrates essential processes such as data discovery, governance, migration, analytics, and integration within a unified interface based on Eclipse™. By merging various functionalities and offering a broad spectrum of job design and execution alternatives, Voracity effectively reduces the complexities, costs, and risks linked to conventional megavendor ETL solutions, fragmented Apache tools, and niche software applications. With its unique capabilities, Voracity facilitates a wide array of data operations, including: * profiling and classification * searching and risk-scoring * integration and federation * migration and replication * cleansing and enrichment * validation and unification * masking and encryption * reporting and wrangling * subsetting and testing Moreover, Voracity is versatile in deployment, capable of functioning on-premise or in the cloud, across physical or virtual environments, and its runtimes can be containerized or accessed by real-time applications and batch processes, ensuring flexibility for diverse user needs. This adaptability makes Voracity an invaluable tool for organizations looking to streamline their data management strategies effectively.

A rapid extract process can serve as a vital element in various scenarios, including: database archiving and replication database reorganizations and migrations data warehouse ETL, ELT, and operational data store activities offline reporting and extensive data safeguarding IRI Fast Extract (FACT™) functions as a parallel unloading tool specifically designed for handling very large database (VLDB) tables within several systems, such as: Oracle, DB2 UDB, MS SQL Server Sybase, MySQL, Greenplum Teradata, Altibase, Tibero Using straightforward job scripts supported by an intuitive Eclipse GUI, FACT swiftly generates portable flat files. The efficiency of FACT is attributed to its use of native connection protocols and a proprietary split query method that enables the unloading of billions of rows in mere minutes. While FACT operates independently as a standalone utility, it also integrates well with other applications and platforms. For instance, FACT can generate metadata for data definition files (.DDF) that can be utilized by IRI CoSort and its compatible data management and protection solutions, allowing for streamlined manipulation of flat files. Additionally, FACT automatically produces configuration files for database loading utilities tailored to the original source. Furthermore, FACT is an optional, seamlessly integrated part of the IRI Voracity ETL and data management platform, enhancing its functionality. The automatic generation of metadata, along with the ability to coexist with other IRI software within the same integrated development environment, further optimizes user workflows and data handling processes.