DM Review Readers Make CoSORT a Top 100 Solution; Survey Rates CoSORT 3.8 out of 4.0 in Key DW Category.Business Editors/High Tech Writers BROOKFIELD, Wis adv. 1. Certainly; really; indeed. v. t. 1. To think; to suppose; to imagine; - used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis. .--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2000 DM Review Magazine, the leading data warehouse and data management resource publication, has announced CoSORT/IRI, Inc. a "Top 100" award winner, based on results from their annual readership survey for the year 2000. CoSORT earned a 3.8 rating on a 4.0 scale (4 being excellent, 1 being poor) in the Data Warehouse Administration, Design, Management, and Performance category. 75% of CoSORT-voting readers rated the product "Excellent", and 25% rated CoSORT "Very Good". CoSORT also rated 3.6 in the Data Quality, Acquisition, and Integration (ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) The functions performed when pulling data out of one database and placing it into another of a different type. ETL is used to migrate data, often from relational databases into decision support systems. , Replication, Acquisition, Transformation, Middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a , and Data Mirrors) category. Readers gave CoSORT 60% "Excellent, and 40% "Very Good" rankings. "We are very pleased that DM Review readers have acknowledged what we're doing," noted David Friedland, IRI's VP of Business Development. "CoSORT's consolidated flat file integration and staging capabilities are at the heart of these survey categories. As a leader in sort/ETL performance and functionality, we are honored by the award." About DM Review Proudly celebrating its 10-year anniversary, DM Review continues to provide thought-provoking and informative editorial for corporate executives and IT managers. Covering business intelligence - e-business, customer relationship management and data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse - across all major industries, DM Review's articles and columns provide insights and solutions from two perspectives -- business and technology. About CoSORT CoSORT is the world's first, fastest, and most widely licensed commercial sort package on Unix and Windows platforms. CoSORT features several end-user and programmer interfaces to a central, parallel processing parallel processing, the concurrent or simultaneous execution of two or more parts of a single computer program, at speeds far exceeding those of a conventional computer. sort algorithm A formula used to reorder data into a new sequence. Like all complicated problems, there are many solutions that can achieve the same results. One sort algorithm can resequence data faster than another. in a coroutine architecture. Its front-end programs cater to data warehouse architects requiring selection, joining, sorting, aggregation, conversion, and report generation, as well as mainframe sort users cutting over to open systems. Included in its hardware-based perpetual use prices are SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. resource configuration tools, on-line documentation and international technical support. More information on CoSORT/IRI, Inc. and its family of data management products is available at www.cosort.com or call 800-333-SORT (USA). |
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