Business Intelligence (BI)
Power BI is a business analytics and data visualization package from Microsoft that can provide custom-designed dashboards and reports ready for web or mobile display. Like other BI and analytic tools, Power BI can also perform simple data wrangling jobs like sorting and aggregation before and after the data are displayed.
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Data Masking/Protection
Note: This article covers the third and most recently available IRI customer method for statically masking or encrypting data in MongoDB through the IRI FieldShield product or IRI Voracity platform (both powered by IRI CoSort v10 and its support of the native MongoDB driver).
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ETL
Batch files contain commands in plain text that can be executed by the command line interpreter of the operating system to accomplish a specific purpose. Windows batch files usually have an extension of .bat or .cmd, while Linux and Unix usually have .sh or no extension at all.
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ETL
This is the second of two articles where we are creating an IRI Voracity ETL flow using new jobs wizards in the IRI Workbench GUI for Voracity, built on Eclipse.
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ETL
This starts another series of articles on how to create and use flows in the IRI Workbench GUI for Voracity. It follows the first series of articles on creating flows from existing CoSort/SortCL job scripts.
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Data Transformation
During the design of IRI Voracity workflows in the IRI Workbench (Eclipse) GUI, you can preview the results of one or more transforms before saving or running the project.
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Data Quality (DQ)
Customers drive business, and they want to be understood and valued. That starts with getting their (only) name right, and having an accurate view of their transaction history, preferences, and related information.
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Data Migration
The Opening Question
ODBC gets a bad rap for speed sometimes … but should it? You’d think from what’s posted online that ODBC is intrinsically slow:
Microsoft disagrees in the case of SQL Server.
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Big Data
Data Quality (DQ)
Introduction
In this article, I suggest ways to move your company’s data towards a higher state of quality. The highest quality occurs when the data meets the needs of your company.
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