IRI Workbench provides a number of features for working across multiple tables in a database. It includes wizards to: profile databases; classify columns; subset, mask and migrate data; generate test data; etc. Read More
Given the amount of data businesses garner daily from human interaction, it is easy to understand how their sources become rife with redundant or erroneous entries. Read More
The traditional or enterprise data warehouse (EDW) has been at the center of data’s transformation to business intelligence (BI) for years. An EDW involves a centralized data repository (traditionally, a relational database) from which data marts and reports are built. Read More
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. Read More
IRI is now also delivering fuzzy search functions, both in its free database and flat-file profiling tools, and as available field-function libraries in IRI CoSort, FieldShield, and Voracity to augment data quality, security, and MDM capabilities. Read More
Data architects and data scientists, as well as DBAs and governance teams, may need to use or migrate data in legacy file formats and databases. Additionally, the ability to mash-up those sources with newer file and database repositories is important in data integration (ETL) and analytic projects, as well as in data profiling for data loss prevention and privacy law compliance. Read More
Master Data Management (MDM) is a strategic enterprise information management (EIM) life cycle initiative designed to foster the consistency and accurate maintenance of master (or reference) data. Read More
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. Read More
Master Data Management (MDM) is a discipline designed to make data more dependable, sharable and accessible. Here are some of IRI’s philosophies around MDM:
Most developers believe that data are, or should be, application-independent.
Data profiling, or data discovery, refers to the process of obtaining information from, and descriptive statistics about, various sources of data. The purpose of data profiling is to get a better understanding of the content of data, as well as its structure, relationships, and current levels of accuracy and integrity. Read More
IRI CoSort is the world’s #1 sort, and single-pass “super tool” for data transformation, reporting, and more. Use CoSort to migrate legacy sorts and data, accelerate BI, DB, and ETL tools, and replace SQL, shell scripts, and 3GL programs that can’t transform fast enough. Read More
