David Friedland, Author at IRI

The Upgrade Path to CoSort v10

by David Friedland

Forty years after the first release of IRI CoSort for CP/M, CoSort v10 for Unix, Linux, and Windows platforms was released in the middle of 2018.

Data Masking/Protection

Defining Startpoint Data Security

by David Friedland

IRI has discussed startpoint security in further detail with the Outlook Series in a segment about data masking.

This article defines what we’d like to call “startpoint security” mostly by virtue of a comparison to endpoint security.

Big Data

Which Data Masking Function Should I Use?

by David Friedland

According to Simson L. Garfinkel at the NIST Information Access Division’s Information Technology Laboratory,

De-identification is not a single technique, but a collection of approaches, algorithms, and tools that can be applied to different kinds of data with differing levels of effectiveness.

IRI Workbench

Wicked Shell in the IRI Workbench

by David Friedland

As we transition IRI Workbench to the Neon version of Eclipse™ in 2017, the Easy Shell feature that facilitated command-line executions of job and batch scripts will no longer be available.

Big Data

A Fresh Look at Data Preparation

by David Friedland

To analyze data successfully, it must first be prepared successfully. Poor quality data creates poor results. Worse yet is data that takes too long to collect and clean because it is too big or too foreign.

Data Transformation

The Enterprise Data Warehouse, Then and Now

by David Friedland

For the last 30 or so years, the precursor to most large scale business intelligence (BI) environments has been the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). A data warehouse (DW) is usually a central database (DB) for reporting, planning, and analyzing summarized, subject-matter data integrated from disparate, historical transaction sources.

IRI Business

Bothersome Buzzwords

by David Friedland

The other day, two different companies selling me services asked if their offering were in my wheelhouse. Since I didn’t know I had a wheelhouse, I couldn’t answer them.I had to look it up because in my 25 years at IRI, wheelhouse was a still new expression for me.

Big Data

Before or Instead of Hadoop, Try This …

by David Friedland

Before Big Data became a buzz word and Gartner hype cycle fodder (never mind falling into the ‘Trough of Disillusionment‘), companies like IRI were handling it.