Learn IRI Software

• Installation
• IRI Workbench
• Data Discovery
• Data Integration
• Data & Database Migration
• Data Governance
• Analytics & BI

Self-Directed Learning Site for IRI Software

This page links you to free, self-help content in the many data management objectives that IRI software products can help you achieve.

Please note that:

1. All IRI software users, from freemium to licensed subscribers, can access this material.  Only supported users, however, can get help from IRI beyond this content.
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IRI Product Installation

• Voracity
• CoSort
• FACT
• NextForm
• FieldShield
• RowGen
• CellShield
• Chakra Max
• Workbench

IRI Workbench - General

• Getting Started
• DB Setup (J/ODBC Connections)
  • Connection registry
  • DSN files
• Job Design Methods
  1. New Job Wizards (see Welcome > First Steps)
  2. Dialogs (use ? for in-context Help)
  3. Script Editor & Outline (see product manuals for syntax)
  4. Workflow (Palette)
  5. AnalytiX DS Mapping Manager
  6. Building Jobs in Your Apps via Gulstream API
• Flow Design (how-to articles for Voracity ETL and other batch jobs)
  • Creating a Work Flow Using Existing Job (SortCL, etc.) Scripts (3 parts)
  • Creating a Work Flow from a Wizard (2 parts)
  • Creating a Work Flow from the Palette (2 parts)
    • Demo video
• Job Deployment
  • Command Line / Wicked Shell
  • Single Job Execution Options
  • Batch Job (Work Flow) Execution Options
  • Creating & Executing SQL Statements
  • Remote Connection/Executions
  • Running Voracity Jobs in Hadoop
    • ​When to Use Hadoop
      • Connecting to HortonWorks/Ambari
      • Connecting to Cloudera
      • Connecting to MapR
• Job Scheduling
  • Voracity/Eclipse Task Launcher
  • Oracle Job Scheduler
  • Stonebranch UAC

Data Discovery

• DB Profiling
• ER Diagramming
• Flat-File Profiling
• Dark (Unstructured) Data Search/Structure/Profile
• Structured Metadata Discovery
• Data Classification
  • Applying (Masking or other) Rules to Classified Data
• Schema-wide Pattern Search
  • Schema Pattern Search to Data Class Association
• Metadata Search (via Git)
• PII Scanning in IRI Chakra Max (for DB audit log use)

Data Integration

• Data Integration Architectures (and Voracity's applications)
  • Enterprise Data Warehouse 
  • Logical Data Warehouse
  • Operational Data Store / Enterprise Data Hub
  • Production Analytic Platform (4-part series)
  • Data Lake
  • ETL vs. ELT
• ETL Job Design (see IRI Workbench > Flow Design above)
• ETL Execution (see IRI Workbench > Job Deployment above)
• Faster Extraction
• Data Transformation
  • Date Masking
  • Filtering
  • Sort/Join/Aggregate
  • Inner Join
  • Left Outer Join
  • Sort
  • Summary Aggregation
    • IoT edge aggregation demo (video)
  • Row-Column Pivoting
  • Set Lookups
• Fast Loading
• Change Data Capture
• Slowly Changing Dimensions
• DB-Specific Optimization (see tabs)
• Voracity ETL Workflow (wizard mode video; see Flow Design above)
  • Oracle to MongoDB Example
• Voracity ETL Job Preview (via live or test data)
• Legacy ETL Optimization
  • ​Accelerating Informatica
  • Accelerating DataStage
  • Accelerating Pentaho
  • Accelerating Talend
• Legacy ETL Tool Migration (via AnalytiX DS CATs)
  • Re-platforming Informatica

Data & Database Migration

• File-Format Conversion
• Database Migration
• Database Subsetting
• Basic Data Replication
• Incremental Data Replication
• Data Federation
• Schema Migration
• Vision File Conversion
• XML (Complex) Parse/Process

Data Governance

• Data Masking
  • Dynamic Data Masking (DDM)
    • IRI FieldShield in DB Apps
      • Java & Hadoop (API) 
        • FieldShield ("Sandkey") SDK
    • IRI Chakra Max (DB Firewall)
  • Static Data Masking (SDM)
    • Single source masking demo (video)
    • Multi-table masking demo (video)
    • Which Data Masking Function Should I Use?
      • Blurring (Random Noise)
      • Bucketing (Generalization)
      • Encryption & Encrryption
      • Hashing
      • Pseudonymization
      • Redaction
      • Tokenization
    • Multi-Table Masking (& Referential Integrity)
      • Rule-based 
      • Class-based
        • Classification & masking demo (video)
    • Discrete Sources & Types
      • Cassandra
      • CSV
      • Dates & Ages
      • Excel
      • HL7
      • MongoDB
      • NIDs / SSNs
      • NRIC
      • Pentaho
      • Splunk
      • Web Logs
  • Re-ID Risk Determination
    • Risk scoring wizard & blurring intro (video)
    • HIPAA Data Certification course
• DB Firewall (IRI Chakra Max DAM/DCAP)
  • Training Syllabus
    • Policy Setting
    • Dynamic Data Masking
    • Monitoring/Alerts
    • Auditing
    • SIEM/SOC Integration
• Data Quality
  • Filter & De-Duplication
  • Fuzzy Searching
  • Data Validation
  • Data Unification (Homogenization, Reconciliation)
  • Finding Busniness Rule Violations
  • Finding Format Errors
• Master Data Management (MDM)
  • MD Consolidation
  • MDM Registry (pending)
  • Alternative (via GIT)
• Metadata Management
  • Teamwork (via GIT)
    • Version Control
    • Lineage (via Git)
    • Lineage & Impact Analysis (via AnalytiX DS)
    • Asset Security (via Git)
• Role Based Access Controls (RBAC)
  • AD-compatible IAM via ViewDS (pending)
• Test Data Management (primer)
  • Goal Setting & Team Building
  • Test Data Needs Assessment
  • Test Data Generation & Provisioning
  • Test Data Sharing & Persistence
• Test Data Generation, for:
  • RDBs via data masking (see SDM above)
  • RDBs via auto-parse/populate/generate
  • RDBs via masked subsets
  • Single files via the job wizard
  • Specific formats or data classes
    • COBOL files
    • Customer (transaction) data
    • Personally Identifiable Information (PII) (fake PII for DevOps)
    • Credit Card Numbers
    • NIDs (US & Korea SSNs, Italy CF, Netherlands BSN)
    • UUIDs/GUIDs
    • Cassandra
    • MongoDB
    • Teradata
  • Java & Hadoop (API)
    • RowGen ("Outrigger") SDK
  • Weighted distributions

Analytics & BI

• Embedded BI
  • see report examples in CoSort manual (SortCL program)
• IoT Edge Aggregation
• Change Data Capture
• Slowly Changing Dimensions
• Predictive Analytics
• Clickstream Analytics
• BIRT integration
• Splunk Add-On
• Data Preparation for BI & Analytic Tools (see tabs)
• DWDigest (Cloud Dashboard, pending)
• JupiterOne (Streaming Analytics, pending)