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Teaming with Us Benefits You
IRI's data manipulation technologies serve end-users and architects
in very large database (VLDB), data warehouse, OLAP (clickstream),
application development, and mainframe migration environments. Providing best-in-class solutions
and services are only possible, however, through successful partnerships.
As a pioneer in the open systems software industry, The CoSort Company
has a long history of alliances with other industry leaders. These
synergies benefit each company, and help our mutual customers reach
their IT potential.
If your company's technologies or services compliment our various data manipulation and management offerings, and you would like to explore possible synergies with us, please email partners@iri.com.
| CGI (formerly AMS) |
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CGI (AMS) has integrated CoSort technology
in its GEMS and Advantage Financial packages for educational and
municipal data centers. CoSort is in use in government data centers
in California, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, New
Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wyoming. |
| Cincom
Systems, Inc. |
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Cincom integrates CoSort technology in
the Supra database for Unix and its Control:Manufacturing suite
for Unix. CoSort's relationship began in 1989, and many Cincom users
worldwide exploit CoSort functionality outside Cincom applications. |
| CipherSoft, Inc. |
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CipherSoft provides products and services to help companies migrate their applications and databases to the latest version of Oracle 10g and 11g technology. CipherSoft is a Certified Oracle Migration Partner and a member of Oracle's Modernization Alliance. IRI's FACT and CoSort can enhance CipherSoft solutions by accelerating large Oracle database migrations. |
| Clerity,
Inc. |
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IRI is a Clerity ISV partner, providing
compatible sorting functionality for Clerity's UniKix Mainframe
Rehosting Software. CoSort has been a key part of the Clerity Mainframe
Reference Architecture for years, and has proven its success in
many UniKix Batch Processing Environment and UniKix Transaction
Processing Environment software implementations. The expansive functionality
of CoSort's SortCL tool also affords Clerity customers with opportunities
to modernize their data processing, presentation, protection and
prototyping tasks. |
| Data
Warehousing Institute, Inc. |
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IRI has been a TDWI promotional and conference
exhibition participant, supporting the goals and messages of the
institute. Click on their logo for more information on The Data
Warehousing Institute. |
| Dimensional Insight, Inc. |
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The Dimensional Insight (DI) "Diver Solution” enables decision makers across the organization to identify new opportunities, improve
business operations, control costs, and increase performance. IRI's CoSort plays a preparatory role for DI's BI users by staging and integrating massive volumes of operational data in the file system. |
| Fujitsu
Siemens Computers |
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IRI has supplied CoSort solutions to the mid-range
and enterprise-wide server market using both Fujitsu (Solaris) and
Siemens/Nixdorf (SINIX Unix) platforms for years. Today, CoSort
exploits PRIMEPOWER's 'eXtended and 'SPARC64 V' architectures. All
core IRI products (CoSort, FACT and RowGen) belong to FSC's Solution
Partner Program. |
| Hewlett-Packard
Co. |
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IRI is a member of both HP's Infrastructure Partner Program and its Developer & Solution Partner
Program (DSPP) -- the successor to HP Computing's Solution Provider
Program, where IRI was one of the original, and premier, members (as well as a certified Level II Power Partner for HP-UX 11). CoSort was
among the first products in HP's Mainframe Alternatives Program,
and the first commercial sort product ported to HP-UX for both the
PA-RISC and Intel (Itanium) platforms. CoSort has also supported
HP-acquired Unix flavors, including Ultirx/RISC, OSF/1, Digital Unix,
Compaq Tru64 Unix, and, Tandem Non-Stop UX. CoSort is now also certified on HP-UX 11i v3. |
| Informatica
Corporation |
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Informatica ETL users can accelerate their high data
volume transformations using CoSort's sort control language (SortCL)
program outside of PowerMart and PowerCenter e.g., to speed
sorts, joins, aggregations and loads. Thanks to an IRI membership
in the Informatica Developer Network, PowerMart and PowerCenter
users on Unix and Windows can accelerate their sorter Tx (sort transformations)
with a direct plug 'n' play replacement -- up to a 10X speed improvement
using the CoSort engine! |
| Intel
Corporation |
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IRI is an Associate Partner in the Intel® Software
Partner Program. for HP-UX 11i and Linux64 operating systems. CoSort
customers may achieve dramatic pre-load sort and ETL performance
gains in very large database (VLDB) and data warehouse (and e-commerce
"data webhouse") environments using Itanium 2 processors
in parallel (SMP mode). |
| International
Business Machines |
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IRI is an IBM Advanced Business Partner. CoSort was
the first commercial sort product ported to IBM AIX -- to the RT
in 1987, the RS/6000 in 1989, the ES/9000 in 1991, OS/390 in 1997,
POWER3-6, Linux and OS/400 PASE for the iSeries in 2001, Linux on
zSeries mainframe partitions in 2003, and Linux on pSeries in 2004.
The IBM merger with Sequent also provided access to CoSort, the
first sort ported to DYNIX/ptx, for the record-setting TPC-H DSS
benchmark. In addition, the CoSort Fast Extract (FACT) tool is now
available for DB2, and CoSort's special Load Accelerator (CLA) library
for DB2 replaces the sort routine within UDB's loader, speeding
loads with no intervention or tuning. The CoSort Plug-In DataStage
and MIMB metadata bridge between DataStage and CoSort file metadata
can help improve transformation performance in high-volume data
warehouse ETL environments. CoSort is certified "ServerProven"
and listed with IBM's National Solutions Center and PartnerWorld
for Developers programs. |
| IOUG |
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IRI has been a vendor member of the International Oracle User's
Group (IOUG). IOUG members: enhance their skills with technical
content, increase their organization's technical advantage, boost
their individual marketability, access a peer network for collaboration
and information exchange, and voice opinions to Oracle about products,
services and policies. IRI continues to exhibit at IOUG conferences
and leverage its membership to assist in the development and marketing
of its high-performance ETL and reorg technologies. |
| iViz
Group, Inc. |
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iViz Group's iDashboards is a best-in-class enterprise dashboard
solution that empowers organizations with real-time business intelligence.
Through one, easy-to-use interface, iDashboards gives decision makers
access to key performance indicators (KPI) and metrics needed to
monitor operations, improve performance, and align strategic objectives
with day-to-day activities. IRI and iViz Group have partnered to
show how CoSort’s high-performance detail and summary report
outputs can be easily visualized in various iDashboards, and now
IRI can resell iDashboards to CoSort users. |
| Mainframe Migration Alliance |
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The Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA) is a group of companies working together to help enterprises migrate data processing off the mainframe and onto the Microsoft platform. These customers typically have special requirements, such as “five nines” (99.999%) application uptime, or the ability to handle thousands of transactions per second. Addressing these needs requires technical depth in both the mainframe and target platforms. By focusing on the special requirements of mainframe users, the Alliance accelerates the migration of workloads (like sorting) off the mainframe and onto the more agile and cost-effective Windows platform (and CoSort). |
| Melissa
DATA |
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Melissa Data provides data quality solutions with an emphasis
on address and phone verification, postal encoding, and data enhancements.
Melissa Data's data quality tools, including Address Object, can
run directly with CoSort thanks to the field-level transformation
library support in CoSort v9's SortCL program. Through this integration,
companies can plug Melissa Data’s data quality libraries into
CoSort data transformation, reporting and security jobs, and run
everything together in the same input/output stream |
| Meta
Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI) |
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MITI is the leading "Metadata Component Provider" to
major database, data integration, business intelligence, repository,
and modeling tool vendors. Now among the many metadata migration
links in MITI's Meta Integration Model Bridge (MIMB) software are
export bridges to CoSort's SortCL and RowGen data definition file
(DDF) repositories. Now it is easier than ever to transform and
synthesize high-volume file system data because the metadata
ETL architects already own can be automatically created for
CoSort tool use without cumbersome manual redefinitions. |
| Micro
Focus |
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IRI is a member of the Micro Focus TechLink Program,
and provides both Windows and Unix users with faster drop-in replacements
for MF COBOL's sort verb and runtime system sort in the Workbench,
Net Express, and Server Express environments CoSort's SortCL also
collates and converts MF COBOL data types and I-SAM and variable
length file formats. COBOL programmers can also call SortCL and
other CoSort (system and library) routines. |
| Micro Focus (formerly Acucorp) |
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A member of Acucorp's Complementary Technology Program
(CTP), IRI has developed native support in CoSort for the Vision
file format in ACUCOBOL-GT applications, and provides a drop-in
replacement for the ACUCOBOL-GT sort verb on Unix and Windows. |
| Microsoft
Corporation |
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As the first commercial sort package available for
MS-DOS, OS/Warp, and Windows, CoSort is recommended by Microsoft
consultants, Intel Labs, and PC Week as one of the fastest and most
robust sort solutions for mainframe sort migration work and SQL
Server loads. IRI frequently particitpates in Microsoft Developer Network activities. |
| NatWorks,
Inc. |
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NatWorks is a leading developer of data access
solutions for Software AG's ADABAS database management system. NatQuery
provides a comprehensive data and metadata extraction solution for
ADABAS. For Change Data Capture, NatWorks offers NatCDC, which handles ADABAS Protection Logs
(PLOGS). NatQuery and NatCDC integrate with CoSort to help provide end-to-end data management
for Software AG customers. |
| Novell,
Inc. |
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Following several successful ports of CoSort to SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES v7-10) platforms -- including Intel and IBM's POWER
5 -- IRI joined Novell's PartnerNet program and had CoSort "YES!
Certified" for SLES 9, further opening CoSort's marketability
for high-performance sorting and ETL operations in Linux server
environments. |
| Oracle
Corporation |
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IRI is a member of the Oracle Technology Network (OTN),
and a regular exhibitor at ECO, IOUGA, and OpenWorld user conferences.
CoSort's FACT delivers high-performance Oracle extract (unload)
technology, along with metadata links to CoSort's sort, join, report,
and combined transform functions for single-pass reorgs and data
warehouse ETL. With or without FACT, pre-CoSorting speeds bulk Oracle
load operations. CoSort has been recommended by Oracle consultants
for database utility operations and warehouse staging for more than
10 years. |
| Red
Hat, Inc. |
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As the first open systems sort and ETL accelerator to support
Linux on Intel x86, Itanium, RISC, and IBM iSeries and zSeries mainframe
partitions, CoSort supports Red Hat Linux on all platforms.
Registered in the Red Hat Alliance program, IRI's CoSort and FAst
extraCT (FACT) solutions are not only compatible, but demonstrate
beautifully and rapidly together on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems
running Oracle 9i. |
| SCO
Group, Inc. |
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One of IRI's first commercial Unix platform targets
for CoSort was SCO Unix. IRI was the first to develop and support
parallel sort software for both SCO OpenServer and SCO UnixWare.
There are still sites using CoSort on these reliable platforms.
Accordingly, IRI is a member of SCO's Partner Program and Developer
Network. |
| Sun
Microsystems, Inc. |
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IRI was one of Sun's first catalyst program members,
a strategic member of Sun's iForce partner program, Sun Developer
Connection, and is now a principal member of the Sun Partner Advantage
Program. Recommended worldwide by Sun engineers and segment managers
"in the data center" and "data warehouse / decision
support" since 1987, CoSort is widely licensed today on UE
and SunFire hardware. Sun's has enabled CoSort for VSAM collation
and conversion in its Mainframe Transaction Processing (MTP) and
Mainframe Batch Manager (MBM) programs. Finally, CoSort uses Sun's
Java 2 Runtime Environment for its unique SortCL GUI. |
| Trillium Software |
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Trillium Software® delivers robust, comprehensive data quality solutions for the world's leading banks, insurance companies, government agencies, and technology providers. Its software and services discover and correct data quality problems, and create platforms prepared for tomorrow's yet unknown data challenges. Trillium Software and IRI are working to combine Trillium's Total Data Quality with CoSort's fast data transformations across the enterprise. |
| UC4 (formerly AppWorx) |
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IRI's CoSort can be called within the AppWorx
framework as a chain of data staging events or as an embedded
batch sort within a queue. The products together lay the foundation
for automated solution sets across application environments, data-intensive
enterprises, and industry sectors -- wherever CoSort data processing
features can be exploited. |
| ViPS
Information Solutions, Inc. |
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ViPS is a leading provider of decision support solutions
(DSS) for healthcare management professionals. ViPS embeds CoSort's
data transformation program - SortCL (sort control language) - to
perform fast data integration and summarization in MCSource and
STARS. With SortCL, ViPS can provide its clientele with faster,
state-of-the-art anti-fraud, claims processing, and medical management
DSS applications. |
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