CoSort ships V9, new platform for high volume data manipulation, management

Issued by Global Research Partners for SPI Group
Johannesburg, 23 Jul 2007

SPI, the sole sub-Saharan distributor for Innovative Routines International (IRI), today announced the latter's release of CoSort Version 9 for Windows servers.

Major upgrades to CoSort make Version 9 a single-pass platform for manipulating and managing large volumes of data, and a suite of solutions for: data transformation, reporting, security, conversion, governance, and for speeding and testing applications.

The new features in CoSort Version 9 include:

* Auditable field-level protections for compliance and outsourcing;
* Up to 50% improvement in high-volume sort performance;
* Multi-file joins and dimensional lookups;
* Multi-byte (Asian) character collation and conversion;
* Flat XML, LDIF, I-SAM and other file format translations;
* Custom field functions (eg data cleansing);
* Perl-compatible regular expressions (PCRE);
* Safe test data generation in real file/report formats; and
* Dashboard option for business intelligence.

Version 9 users can exploit CoSort's main interface - SortCL - to re-host legacy sorts and data, and to replace less efficient methods of flat-file data processing (eg filters, transforms), presentation (reporting), protection (eg encryption, de-identification), and prototyping.

SortCL can run all these functions, including most features listed above, in one pass. Also available are sort plug-ins and thread-safe API calls for other software.

According to IRI's Business Development VP David Friedland, "CoSort 9 optimises job design efficiency and production performance, while adding targeted security for data at risk." CoSort's SortCL tool is unique in that it can combine many massive files and critical actions in one clear, auditable job script. "CoSort users have always saved time and money getting more done in one place, product, and (I/O) pass. Now they can also protect sensitive fields - like social security and credit card numbers - that are in files at rest or in motion, at the same time."

For further information, please contact Chris Anderson on +27 11 234 1560; fax +27 11 234 1387; e-mail chris@spi.co.za.

CoSORT/Innovative Routines International (IRI)

CoSORT/IRI is a pioneer in high-performance, high-volume data sorting, reporting and ETL tools for UNIX and Windows data centres. For 27 years, CoSORT has accelerated commercial and government data processing applications, including: mainframe sort and data migration, database utility (reorg) operations, data warehousing, report generation and third-party software. IRI's CoSORT, FAst extraCT for Oracle, and RowGen file simulator, are represented in more than 30 international offices.

SPI

SPI is a company that provides utility software products and services to the open systems segment of the IT industry. It is the sole sub-Saharan Africa distributor for US-based FacetCorp, US-based Innovative Routines, UK-based Open Systems Management, US-based Optio Software, and UK-based Xi Software. SPI is also the sales agent for UK-based Metron and develops some of its own software utilities to complement the overseas products that it distributes.

SPI has a wide and varied customer base and includes organisations such as Aspen Pharmacare, Johannesburg Municipality, Johannesburg University, Metropolitan Health Group, Nampak, National Brands, Stellenbosch University, UCT and UNISA.

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