CoSORT Drives Digital Dashboards

IRI Announces Reporting Partnership with iViz Group

San Francisco, CA – September 18, 2005 – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. (“The CoSORT Company”), a leading provider of high-volume data sorting and aggregation software for open systems, and iViz Group (Troy, MI), a software developer specializing in digital dashboards for business intelligence (BI), today announced the formation of a technical and marketing alliance. The companies plan to strengthen their roles in offering a more comprehensive, overall solution for the BI market by cross-leveraging their information production and presentation technologies.

IRI’s flagship file manipulation package, CoSORT, features a high-performance data filtering and remapping interface known as SortCL (for Sort Control Language). In a single pass through large input sources in multiple formats, SortCL can: select, sort (merge or join), cross-calculate, type-convert, aggregate, sequence, re-map, and report to one or more output targets in one or more formats. When a target is specified in Microsoft Comma-Separated Values (CSV) format, the iViz Group’s flagship business intelligence product, iDashboards, can import and present the CoSORTed and summarized data in one or more customized charting formats for animated, interactive visualization.

“By marrying the high-volume sorting, aggregation and reformatting speed of CoSORT’s SortCL with the visually-intuitive and meaningful presentations of iDashboards, IRI and iViz group can really bring something special to the business intelligence community,” according to David Ferguson, iViz Group’s Manager, Partner Programs. IRI’s Business Development VP David Friedland agreed, saying that “the linking of these tools through a common data format makes sense – it is now easy (and fast) to go from massive tables and files into valuable business information that you can see and interrogate through drill-down for better insight.”

For example, with CoSORT’s FAst extraCT (FACT) software for Oracle; a data warehouse architect can dump a multi-gigabyte table directly into CoSORT SortCL scripts that can produce multiple load and report targets simultaneously. One or more of those detail or summary targets can feed web-ready iDashboards charts – all at a fraction of the time and cost of a high-end extract-transform-load (ETL) package. Both companies can refer users to such joint solutions.

About CoSORT / Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc.
CoSORT/IRI Inc. is a pioneer in high-performance, high-volume data sorting, reporting and ETL tools for UNIX and Windows data centers. For 27 years, CoSORT has accelerated commercial and government data processing applications, including: mainframe sort and data migration, database utility (reorg) operations, data warehousing, report generation, and, third-party software. IRI’s CoSORT, FAst extraCT for Oracle, and RowGen file simulator, are represented in more than 30 international offices. Additional information is available at www.cosort.com.

About iViz Group, Inc.
iViz Group, Inc. provides management dashboard solutions using patent-pending technology for business intelligence and data visualization. iDashboards, the flagship product of iViz Group, is a web-based dashboard application with all the features found in enterprise-quality “digital dashboards”, plus streamlined implementation, customized charting, pre-configured application interfaces for data import and export, interactivity and animation, and low-cost licensing. Additional information is available at www.idashboards.com.

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Editorial Contacts:
Lisa Mangino, CoSORT / IRI, Inc. 321-777-8889, or lisam@cosort.com.
Larry Pier, iViz Group, Inc., 248-952-08407, or lpier@ivizgroup.com.