ETL
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. Read More
Data Transformation
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. Read More
Data Quality (DQ)
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
Data Migration
The Opening Question
ODBC gets a bad rap for speed sometimes … but should it? You’d think from what’s posted online that ODBC is intrinsically slow:
Microsoft disagrees in the case of SQL Server. Read More
Big Data
Editor’s note … this article, first posted in 2014 for the wizard it describes, has been updated as follows:
June 2015: This wizard was renamed from the Data Restructuring Wizard to the Dark Data Discovery Wizard, and was provided free in IRI Workbench for users of IRI NextForm Lite. Read More
Data Quality (DQ)
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
Big Data
As the old English proverb says, “necessity is the mother of invention.” When it comes to modern business intelligence goals, these words of wisdom ring truer than ever. Read More
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
