Big Data
Has your organization considered using a data lake? This article explains what a data lake is, and posits a data lake architecture optimized for analytic results. Read More
Big Data
Very large legacy IT vendors, or what we’ll call megavendors, provide valuable hardware, software, and services to companies worldwide. Often however, their technical approach, product roadmap, and price point will not be the best fit for your use case. Read More
Data Transformation
This is the second in series of articles illustrating on how to use existing IRI CoSort (SortCL) jobs in graphical IRI Voracity ETL workflows, or more simply, flows. Read More
ETL
Abstract: The IRI Voracity data management platform provides data integration tools, including data pipeline automation for high-performance ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) operations. This article is the first in another series on how to create and use high-performance ETL workflows in the IRI Workbench GUI for Voracity. Read More
Test Data
IRI RowGen software creates test data you can customize to meet specific needs. It supports the formats and techniques that make your test sets as realistic as you want them to be. Read More
Data Transformation
Comparing Filter/Sort/Join/Aggregate Performance
ITKeySource, an ETL consultancy in Jacksonville, FL, recently benchmarked relative performance gains running IRI CoSort — and its SortCL program in particular — alongside IBM DataStage. Read More
ETL
IRI CoSort continues to be a low-cost way to accelerate Informatica ETL via pushdown optimization, and IRI RowGen can generate safe, referentially correct test data for any EDW. Read More
Data Transformation
This is first in a series of articles explaining how to create and use Flows in the IRI Workbench GUI for Voracity. Flows contain ETL and other data processing steps, and are illustrated in flow and transform mapping diagrams in the GUI. Read More
Big Data
Linear regression is a staple data analysis function for financial, economic, research, and many other disciplines, that helps discover new data correlations. Users of the IRI Voracity platform can now simultaneously process big data from any number of sources and present customized trend lines to help business users make predictions. Read More
Big Data
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
-George Bernard Shaw
The mathematical symbol for change is the Greek uppercase letter delta: Δ. Read More
IRI
Information is the commodity of the 21st Century, and data has inherent economic value. But because information is not recorded on balance sheets, it is often overlooked. Read More