Big Data
Big Data Problem Big data volumes are growing exponentially. This phenomenon had been happening for years, but its pace began a more rapid acceleration in 2012. Read More
Test Data
Database Test Data Usage – This blog caught my eye because of its title, Do the right thing when testing with production data. It struck me as oxymoronic, since we know production data should not be used for testing at all …
Of course we know how tempting it is to use production data for testing applications, simulating databases, prototyping ETL operations, and just about anything else that needs to work with the real thing. Read More
Data Migration
Data migration is done using NextForm; IRI’s data migration utility for converting large files into different formats and/or translating field-level data into other types. The current version converts between uniform XML and text files, LDIF and CSV, Vision and ISAM, MF COBOL variable-length files and Excel, etc. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
Data franchising is the 2003 term coined by Richard Sherman of Athena Solutions to refer to the staging or packaging of large data sets into clean, usable chunks for decision-making, particularly through business intelligence (BI) and analytic software. Read More
Data Transformation
Changing between column and row formats is an online analytical processing (OLAP) activity that optimizes data structures for queries and reports.
A pivot transformation turns multiple rows of data into one, denormalizing a data set into a more compact version by rotating the input data on a column value. Read More
IRI Business
Data Management and Protection Expertise – IRI Professional Services Now Open
In response to customer requests for bespoke applications across a broad range of data processing requirements, IRI now has an in-house business unit for the implementation of custom data transformation, ad hoc reporting, and data security solutions. Read More
Data Migration
Star schema is the simplest and most common database modelling structure used in traditional data warehouse paradigms. The schema resembles a constellation of stars — generally several bright stars (facts) surrounded by dimmer ones (dimensions) where one or more fact tables reference different dimension tables. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
Introduction: This blog discusses a brief overview of how IRI handles change data capture (CDC) solutions. Since the posting of this blog, IRI has created a wizard specifically for CDC solutions found in IRI Workbench. Read More
Big Data
Hadoop is an increasingly popular computing environment for distributed processing that business can use to analyze and store huge amounts of data. Some of the world’s largest and most data-intensive corporate users deploy Hadoop to consolidate, combine and analyze big data in both structured and complex sources. Read More
IRI Business
Professional online networking plays a vital role in the success of organizations in many industries because it changes the way people communicate. Networking changes the way others interact with brands and products they find useful. Read More
IRI Business
Congratulations, you have a new idea! You have gone from concept evaluation and market research to prototype testing and pricing considerations. Have you thought about what it takes to optimize the success of the product’s actual release? Read More
