This is an e-newsletter for IT professionals interested in fast data management and targeted data protection. The CoSort Journal serves IRI software users and business partners, including updates to products, solutions, and services.

New: IRI CellShield Enterprise Edition
Discover, Mask and Audit PII in Excel!

IRI CellShield Enterprise Edition (EE) finds personally identifying information (PII) in every spreadsheet on a computer or network, reports the precise range locations of the PII, enables manual or bulk masking, and logs details for compliance audits.

CellShield EE uses the dark data discovery (formerly the data restructuring) wizard in the IRI Workbench -- and the CellShield add-in released in Q4'14 -- to pattern-search, report on, mask (encrypt, redact or pseudonymize) or restore, and create a secure column entry in the report for every action taken.



CellShield EE uses the same functions as IRI FieldShield, so you can restore Excel spreadsheet data masked in other sources, and vice versa. Early CellShield adopters will receive discounts. Email cellshield@iri.com to evaluate EE.



IRI FieldShield (Data Masking) Updates
DDM SDK, Masks for Cassandra, NID Redaction

New developments in, and uses for, IRI FieldShield continue apace. IRI is completing software development kits (SDKs) for Java and .NET programmers interested in embedding encryption and redaction functions within their applications or SQL procedures for dynamic data masking (DDM).

New blog articles describe how to use FieldShield to mask PII in Cassandra DataStax, and support for NIDs like those in Singapore. New default masks in the FieldShield GUI are also available for UK NINO and NHS formats.



IRI RowGen (Test Data) Updates
New How-to's for Popular Non-DB Targets

Check out these new blog articles on the creation of synthetic, but realistic, data in these formats and platforms:





Tech Tip: Cloud Control Your Metadata
Manage .*CL & DDF Versions via EGit, etc.
  
Did you know that your CoSort SortCL, FACT, NextForm, FieldShield, and RowGen control language jobs -- plus the data definition files (DDF) each uses -- can be team-shared and managed in the IRI Workbench, and version-controlled with Eclipse-based source code control systems? Find out how from this example.


Solutions Products Resources

Big Data IRI Data Manager Blog
Business Intelligence IRI Data Protector Company
Data Governance IRI CoSort Contact Us
Data Integration & ETL IRI FACT Customers
Data Masking IRI FieldShield News
Data & DB Migration IRI NextForm Partners
Database Acceleration
IRI RowGen Services
Sort Replacements IRI Workbench Support
Test Data
IRI CellShield Team IRI 

Copyright © 2015, Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. All Rights Reserved. CoSort, FieldShield, NextForm and RowGen are registered trademarks of IRI, and CellShield and Voracity are pending. FACT is a trademark of DataStreams Corp. (CoSort Korea). All other product, brand, or company names are, or may be, (registered) trademarks of their owners.
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Free Eclipse Data Profiling Tools
DB, File & Dark Data Discovery

To help introduce the upcoming IRI Voracity platform (mentioned last quarter) for big data management, IRI will include several new data discovery modules in the free IRI Workbench GUI, starting with the latest edition of NextForm Lite:

1) New profiling wizard for all RDBs, with:
  • statistical reports on column values
  • multiple pattern matching searches
  • multiple fuzzy matching searches
  • referential integrity checks
2) New all-RDB ER diagramming tool

3) Enhanced dark data discovery, extraction, and structuring of values in unstructured documents, featuring new 'and' & 'or' search options and reusable pattern libraries

4) Updated file & DB metadata discovery

All of these profiling tools will be in an IRI Workbench toolbar menu to facilitate the planning and specification of IRI data integration, migration, governance, and analytic jobs in the same place.




Onboarding: Big & Cloud Data
New IRI NextForm "Modern" Edition

IRI just changed the NextForm line, by:

1) replacing the 'Unstructured Data' edition with the free 'Lite' Edition (see above) for discovery, extraction, and structuring of dark data documents.

2) adding a 'Modern' edition to support the sourcing, migration, and targeting of big data (e.g., Hive, NoSQL) and cloud/Saas (e.g., Marketo, Salesforce) repositories.

This new edition is the counterpart to the existing NextForm 'Legacy' edition for migrating data from mainframe and other proprietary data sources.



CoSort Speeding Analytics
New DBTA Webinar Now Available

Did you miss DBTA's roundtable on accelerating data processing for analytics this month? Click here to learn how CoSort tackles the data volume, variety, velocity, and veracity challenges in big data today, and how IRI's Voracity platform in Eclipse -- built atop CoSort and Hadoop -- will do even more soon.


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