Big Data
The traditional or Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) has been at the center of data’s transformation to business intelligence (BI) for years. An EDW involves a centralized data repository (traditionally, a relational database) from which data marts and reports are built. Read More
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
Big Data
Update Q3’2019: Subsequent to the development of the IRI Voracity Add-On for Splunk described below, there is now also a Splunkbase-registered IRI Voracity App for Splunk available for Seamless Data Preparation, Indexing, and Visualization…
After our first examples of external unstructured data preparation and PII data masking for Splunk generated interest in these capabilities, IRI wanted to develop a direct integration from the Splunk user interface (UI). 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 Masking/Protection
Applying a Pseudonym Rule in the IRI Workbench GUI for FieldShield or Voracity
To create pseudonym values that will be consistent across tables — and keep up with changing data in those tables — the IRI Workbench GUI for FieldShield and Voracity offers a few methods. 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