CoSort Archives

Automatically Forward Target or Log Data into Splunk

by Devon Kozenieski

Production or test data targets, as well as the operational log data, created by SortCL-compatible data manipulation or generation jobs in the IRI Voracity platform and its included products like — IRI CoSort, NextForm, RowGen, FieldShield and DarkShield — are all machine-readable.

Big Data

Processing Live Data Feeds in Voracity

by Alex Murray

This article demonstrates processing a web-based data source in the IRI Voracity data management platform. Static and streaming data defined in URLs — including FTP/S, HTTP/S, HDFS, Kafka, MQTT, and MongoDB — are supported by the default data processing engine in Voracity, CoSort Version 10.

Business Intelligence (BI)

Speeding Time-to-Display in Power BI

by Craig Schien

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.

Data Masking/Protection

Native MongoDB Masking (and More)

by Chaitali Mitra

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).

ETL

Executing ETL & Batch Flows

by Susan Gegner

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.

ETL

Creating a Voracity Flow from a Wizard (Part 2…

by Susan Gegner

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.

ETL

Creating a Voracity Flow from a Wizard (Part 1…

by Susan Gegner

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.

Data Transformation

ETL Task Testing with the IRI Voracity Preview Feature

by Cyrena Pritchard

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.

Data Quality (DQ)

The Importance of a Unified View of the Customer

by Eric Leohner

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.