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
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
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
Data Transformation
Big data integration activities can happen outside the database in an extract, transform, load (ETL) environment, or inside the database in ELT:
http://www.iri.com/blog/data-transformation2/etl-vs-elt-we-posit-you-judge/
One example of an ELT operation would be Informatica’s Pushdown Optimization option, in which users transform data in a relational database like Oracle, or in Teradata. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
As IRI CoSort integrates and stages big data from a variety of sources, it plays a natural role in producing data for reporting and analytics.
CoSort not only transforms data for loading data warehouse tables, it can report at the same time, or feed data in filtered, aggregated, sorted, and properly formatted subsets (like .CSV Read More
Big Data
In 1992, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, long since acquired) asked IRI to develop a 4GL interface to CoSort in the syntax of the VAX VMS sort/merge utility. Read More