IRI CoSort

IRI CoSort is a high-performance data transformation, quality, and wrangling package for large, structured data sources. It provides a fast, scalable alternative to legacy sort and data-processing utilities, with support for complex, combined data preparation jobs, including sorting, merging, joining, aggregating, filtering, cleansing, reformatting, and reporting. CoSort works on fixed and delimited (e.g., CSV) text files, scalar RDB tables, COBOL and flat EDI (JSON, XML) files, ASN.1 CDRs and Excel.

CoSort can produce output in one or more custom-formatted file, table, and report targets for analytics, applications, data integration, and AI pipelines. Its self-documenting metadata and Eclipse IDE helps you define repeatable processing jobs without developing large amounts of complex code. CoSort also provides operational controls, logging, and governance capabilities for managing production data processing jobs.

CoSort is designed for data engineers, ETL developers, DBAs, application developers, IT operations teams, and AI modelers responsible for moving, preparing, transforming, loading, or reporting on "big data." CoSort is particularly useful for organizations that need high-performance batch processing, data preparation, and reporting but want to reduce dependence on multiple job steps and hardware upgrades. Teams migrating mainframe and legacy ETL workloads to Windows and Azure can also benefit; CoSort can run in Azure and supports data in flat files stored in Azure Blob and SharePoint Online as well as scalar table data in MS SQL and CosmosDB.

Enterprises frequently need to sort and transform large datasets faster while controlling infrastructure costs and development effort. Other approaches involve extensive custom coding, multiple tools, or database resources for jobs CoSort can perform more efficiently. CoSort addresses these challenges by providing high-speed, scalable data processing with a concise, metadata-driven job design. It optimizes and consolidates data transformation, cleansing, and reporting tasks while leveraging O/S threads and advanced I/O techniques. CoSort helps Windows users migrate legacy sort jobs and data to Azure files and databases, accelerate existing ETL tools, wrangle data for Power BI and Azure Analytics, speed bulk database loads, and prepare data for AI pipelines.