Big Data
Before Big Data became a buzz word and Gartner hype cycle fodder (never mind falling into the ‘Trough of Disillusionment‘), companies like IRI were handling it. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
About Standard Deviation
Standard Deviation is a statistical measure of variance between data values and their mean (or average value). Standard deviation is calculated as the square root of that variance. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
As CoSort users have known for a long time, the Sort Control Language (SortCL) program supports multi-level, conditional aggregation functions on a static or running basis. Read More
Data Transformation
Editors note: CoSort Version 10 was released in mid-2018. Please see this article for links to its features and upgrade details.
What’s New in CoSort 9.5.3
Along with the new website, there is a new release of IRI’s flagship CoSort package for data management and data protection. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
There are many proven business intelligence and analytic tools on the market than can transform raw data into meaningful information. Because this process can be complex and involve large volumes of data however, it makes sense to use the right technologies at each step in the process … tools and techniques that combine well to deliver the fastest, most accurate results for business decision making, and make the process of metadata management and report design simpler and more efficient. Read More
Big Data
Note: This article was originally drafted in 2015, but was updated in 2019 to reflect new integration between IRI Voracity and Knime (for Konstanz Information Miner), now the most powerful open source data mining platform available. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
There are a number of business intelligence tools available today than can transform raw data into meaningful information. Because this process can be complex and involve large volumes of data however, it makes sense to use the right technologies at each step in the process … tools and techniques that combine well to deliver the fastest, most accurate results for business decision making, and make the process of metadata management and report design simpler and more efficient. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
There are a number of business intelligence tools available today than can transform raw data into meaningful information. Because this process can be complex and involve large volumes of data however, it makes sense to use the right technologies at each step in the process … tools and techniques that combine well to deliver the fastest, most accurate results for business decision making, and make the process of metadata management and report design simpler and more efficient. Read More
IRI Workbench
VSE, short for Virtual Storage Extended, is an operating system for IBM mainframe computers. Programs scripted in its job control language (JCL) instruct the system in how to run batch jobs or start subsystems. Read More
Big Data
One of the best ways to speed up big data processing operations is to not process so much data in the first place; i.e. to eliminate unnecessary data ahead of time. Read More