Selected Press Releases

IRI Leverages Latest RHEL Features in CoSort-Compatible Data Management Software Line

Melbourne, Fla. (December 16, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., The CoSort® Company, has successfully ported its flagship data manipulation package, IRI CoSort, to Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 (“RHEL 7”). CoSort on RHEL 7 enables big data users to package, protect, and present information faster and more affordably than ever before, using a familiar operating system on commodity hardware. CoSort’s validation also means that its purpose-built spin-offs for data and database migration (IRI NextForm), data masking (IRI FieldShield), and test data generation (IRI RowGen), also run under RHEL 7. (more...)

Select-and-Click Masking, Encryption, and Pseudonymization

Melbourne, Fla. (November 13, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., The CoSort® Company and developer of FieldShield® data masking software for the enterprise, has released a low-cost security add-in for Microsoft Excel® 2010 and 2013. IRI CellShield™ allows users to directly mask, encrypt, and pseudonymize the sensitive data they select. (more...)

84 More Data Sources Now Available to IRI Workbench Users

Melbourne, Fla. (September 11, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., best known as The CoSort Company, has announced that its data management and protection software can reach and manage data from many more data sources. Through a new partnership with CONNX Solutions, Inc., users of the IRI Workbench GUI can now acquire and work with data in more than 125 different file and database formats. (more...)

Data Management ISV Finds and Integrates Enterprise Dark Data from an Eclipse GUI

Melbourne, Fla. (August 28, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., best known as “The CoSort Company” and for fast data manipulation and data-centric protection software, has announced a new graphical tool to quickly and inexpensively capture information in unstructured data sources, or what Gartner calls “dark data.” (more...)

Enables Data Migration, Masking, and Test Data Generation in Eclipse

Melbourne, Fla. (July 16, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., The CoSort Company, a leading provider of fast data management and data-centric protection software,  has developed integration protocols for Teradata®. IRI users can now directly access data in Teradata sources, work with it, and create metadata and data feeds for Teradata targets. (more...)

Combined Offerings Modernize COBOL Applications and Data Utilization

Melbourne, Fla. (March 11, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., better known as The CoSort Company, and Language Portability Solutions, Inc. (LPS), have announced a re-marketing agreement to help mainframe users convert their COBOL applications, data, and JCL for use in Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, and Windows batch job frameworks. (more...)

NextForm® v3 Available in Free, MF COBOL, Database, and Unstructured Data Versions

Melbourne, Fla. (February 27, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., The CoSort Company -- a 36-year-old ISV specializing in big data management and protection -- has announced the third generation of its data and database migration product, NextForm. (more...)

Melbourne, Fla. (January 21, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. (The CoSort Company) -- a leading developer of big data management and data-centric protection software -- has announced the expansion of its professional services division to provide more consulting, implementation, and customized solutions for a wide range of ongoing IT challenges. (more...)