SPI, the Sub-Saharan distributor for Innovative Routines International (IRI), the CoSORT company, today announced that the latter and iViz Group, a software developer specialising in digital dashboards for business intelligence (BI), have formed a technical and marketing alliance.
The companies plan to strengthen their roles in offering a more comprehensive, overall solution for the BI market by cross-leveraging their information production and presentation technologies.
IRI's flagship file manipulation package, CoSORT, features a high-performance data filtering and remapping interface known as SortCL. In a single pass through large input sources in multiple formats, SortCL can: select, sort (merge or join), cross-calculate, type-convert, aggregate, sequence, re-map, and report to one or more output targets in one or more formats.
When a target is specified in Microsoft Comma-Separated Values (CSV) format, the iViz Group's flagship business intelligence product, iDashboards, can import and present the CoSORTed and summarised data in one or more customised charting formats for animated, interactive visualisation.
"By marrying the high-volume sorting, aggregation and reformatting speed of CoSORT's SortCL with the visually-intuitive and meaningful presentations of iDashboards, IRI and iViz group can really bring something special to the business intelligence community," commented David Ferguson, iViz Group's Manager, Partner Programs.
"The linking of these tools through a common data format makes sense," added IRI's Business Development VP David Friedland. "It is now easy and fast to go from massive tables and files into valuable business information that you can see and interrogate through drill-down for better insight."
For example, with CoSORT's FAst extraCT (FACT) software for Oracle; a data warehouse architect can dump a multi-gigabyte table directly into CoSORT SortCL scripts that can produce multiple load and report targets simultaneously. One or more of those detail or summary targets can feed Web-ready iDashboards charts - all at a fraction of the time and cost of a high-end extract-transform-load (ETL) package. Both companies can refer users to such joint solutions.
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CoSORT/IRI Inc 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.
iViz Group, Inc
iViz Group, Inc provides management dashboard solutions using patent-pending technology for business intelligence and data visualisation. iDashboards, the flagship product of iViz Group, is a Web-based dashboard application with all the features found in enterprise-quality "digital dashboards", plus streamlined implementation, customised charting, pre-configured application interfaces for data import and export, interactivity and animation, and low-cost licensing.
For further information, please contact Chris Anderson at telephone +27 11 234 1560; fax +27 11 234 1387; e-mail chris@spi.co.za
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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