IRI NextForm

IRI NextForm is an enterprise‑grade data migration and reformatting engine built for large, complex, and regulated environments moving mission‑critical workloads into Azure. It delivers high‑throughput schema data conversion, large flat-file migration, and cross‑platform data type and endianness restructuring with predictable performance and full auditability. By standardizing and accelerating migrations from legacy databases, mainframe sources, and heterogeneous flat file formats into Azure SQL, Synapse, and Azure Storage, NextForm helps enterprises modernize data estates with confidence and control.

The organizations that benefit from NextForm range from consultancies trying to load MF COBOL Vision and ISAM files into SQL Server to large enterprises with distributed data landscapes, strict governance requirements, and modernization programs spanning multiple business units. Data engineering teams, platform architects, and enterprise integration groups gain a reliable, repeatable engine for high‑volume migrations without relying on brittle custom scripts or heavyweight ETL platforms. Global system integrators and MSPs also can use NextForm to deliver consistent, scalable migration outcomes across multiple uses cases, including conversions like packed decimal and ebcdic data types to numeric and ascii, LDIF to XML files, ASN.1 CDRs to Excel, and DB2 to SQL Server tables.

NextForm directly addresses the operational and strategic pains enterprises face during modernization: fragmented toolchains, inconsistent schema conversions, long migration timelines, and the risk of disrupting critical systems. It consolidates structured data extraction, transformation, and loading into a single optimized workflow, reducing project complexity and ensuring data arrives in Azure clean, aligned, and ready for downstream analytics. The result is faster modernization, lower risk, and a more controlled path from legacy platforms to Azure.

NextForm uses the IRI CoSort SortCL program, making it metadata- and job compatible with IRI Voracity, CoSort, FieldShield and RowGen data management, transformation, masking, and synthesis operations, respectively. This also means NextForm benefits from the same IRI Ops Governance System (OGS) for production RBACs and robust log management functionality.