CoSort (IRI, Inc.)

IRI's RowGen software produces accurate, safe test data that simulates application data -- and perhaps even the applications themselves.

Test Data Accuracy
Valid test sets must can contain the full range of values, data types, record layouts, and file formats that an application must process. In some cases -- especially when simulating summary report layouts -- you will need the built-in transformation and formatting features.

Concurrent Development
By generating test data for each phase of development, you can develop your phases simultaneously, and independently from other phases. For example:
• Step 1 reads a personnel file and joins health and insurance
             claim data to a personnel file to make a status file.
• Step 2 reads the status file and generates a list of doctors.
• Step 3 makes a web-ready billing summary sorted by patient.

RowGen can generate the input files for step 1, the status report for step 2, and the web report in step 3 -- all without needing any data or files from the other steps.

Secure Development
RowGen gives you the ability to synthesize any type, size, layout and amount of safe test data so you can create and provide for a more secure development environment.

Alternatively, the CoSort product allows you to use real data that is protected with field-level functions (like encryption) on a need-to-know basis. For details, see Solutions > Field Protection.

Either way, with safe data, there is no need to certify, clear, bind, or bond your developers or outsourced application providers.

Go between 'Test File Generation' and 'Real File Production'
RowGen can show you what the real data can look like, and what the transformation and reporting application can look like. That's because both RowGen and CoSort use the same metadata to define data manipulations and file layouts.

If you only use the RowGen product, you can easily upgrade to CoSort to transform and report on the real data (when it becomes available). Using the same job script RowGen used to define and transform test files, CoSort will transform real files in the same format.