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1st Quarter 2012
April 17th, 2012

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• CoSort Version Support Termination Dates
• VLDB Offline Reorg Module in IRI Workbench
• Multi-Table Specification in FieldShield
• New IRI Resale and Support Agent in China
• Tech Tip – Handling CLOB Data via FACT

4th Quarter 2011
December 21st, 2011

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• IRI Workbench (Eclipse Plug-In) Supports Fast Extracts
• RowGen (Test Data Product) Development Update
• CoSort Expands in Hospitality Sector (via Mereo)
• Tech Tip – SortCL /FIELD_PREDICATE
• Business Article – On-Line vs. Off-Line DB Reorgs
• Business Article – IRI Launches Professional Services Division

3rd Quarter 2011
October 3rd, 2011

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FieldShield v2.0 Workbench Preview Articles include:
• New encryption routines supported (e.g. AES-128, FIPS-compliant OpenSSL)
• 256-byte hashing with custom HMAC solutions for HIPPA requirements
• Eclipse workbench job wizard and field protection dialogs
• Tech Tip – Data masking with character replacement function

2nd Quarter 2011
July 14th, 2011

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Articles include:
• CoSort 9.5 Release Annoucement
• CoSort 9.5 Chiphopper Certification
• New IRI Agents in Central Europe
• Tech Tip – Migrating Mainframe Data
• Business Article – About Unicode
• Business Article – IRI Joins DAMA

1st Quarter 2011
March 31st, 2011

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CoSort 9.5 Workbench Preview Articles include:
• New job wizards, form dialogs and syntax-aware script editing
• ODBC-connected (DB table) data sources and targets
• Metadata discovery and conversion
• Business Article – About the Eclipse IDE

4th Quarter 2010
December 8th, 2010

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Articles include:
• Coming Soon in 2011 – CoSort 9.5.1
• IRI Software in Puerto Rico & The Caribbean
• More FACT Database, Hardware Platforms
• Tech Tip – Implied Decimal Formatting
• Business Article – About ODBC

3rd Quarter 2010
September 29th, 2010

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Articles include:
• FieldShield Updates – Current Release Now 1.5
• IRI Expands in Asia – Singapore, Taipei, Beijing, Greater China
• NextForm Feedback Opportunity – Starbucks Gift Cards Offer
• Tech Tip – Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE)
• Business Article – Encryption Key Management

2nd Quarter 2010
June 1st, 2010

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Articles include:
• FieldShield® Released – targeted protections for sensitive data
• Partner Spotlight – i2sistemas Colombia
• Tech Tip – Field-level encryption and De-ID functions example
• Business Article – Data loss risk mitigation

IRI Software Solves ‘Endian’ Problem
April 27th, 2010

New Tools to Process Data in Different Byte Orders Across Platforms

MELBOURNE, Fla. (April 27, 2010) — Innovative Routines International Inc. (IRI), Inc., announced that it has solved a problem inherent with migrating data across different endian architectures (e.g. a binary file created on a mainframe but read on a PC). more »

New “FieldShield” Tool Protects Sensitive Files
April 6th, 2010

IRI Delivers Targeted Data Encryption, Masking

MELBOURNE, Fla. (April 6, 2010) — Innovative Routines International Inc. (IRI), Inc., has released the world’s first cross-platform, data-centric protection utility for files. FieldShield protects personally identifying information (PII) in flat files down to the field level, according to business rules. more »