CoSort

Categories	How We Address Those Needs
Data Quality	CoSort's SortCL tool can rapidly scrub many large files at once using: de-duplication character validation find (scan) and replace horizontal, and conditional vertical selection and link to custom, field-level data quality routines at runtime. More…
Metadata / ETL / Data Architecture	CoSort's SortCL tool leverages an open, explicit metadata for flat files that you can share across applications, and automatically create with multiple tools: More… CoSort's Fast Extract tool speeds Oracle unloads, while it's SortCL tool works standalone or in conjunction with ETL tools to accelerate large transforms, and bulk RDB loads. More… Data architects can use CoSort, RowGen and other ETL tools while they visualize, create, maintain and integrate their data models using RapidACE. More…
MDM / CDI / EDM	CoSort's SortCL tool can help you scrub and standardize master data elements, produce reports to identify changes and condition-based anomalies, transform and reformat the master data itself, and provide new, reusable metadata for it. More…
Policy / Standards / Rules Management	Use CoSort's SortCL tool to comply with the HIPAA Security Rule Section 164.312, Technical Safeguards, for access control and encryption. Protect at the field level for files that both rest and move. More…
Sensitive Data / Privacy / Monitoring	The CoSort SortCL tool has multiple techniques (and the ability for you to add more of your own) to secure sensitive information in files -- down to the field level. More…
Compliance / Auditing / Security	CoSort's SortCL tool can assist not only in complying with privacy rules by protecting files at risk down to the field level, but in large-file-volume issue analysis and data stewardship efforts. More…
Gov. Program Administration / Records	By keeping an XML audit log of all CoSort (SortCL) executions, you can refer to and query every job it ran in the transformation, protection, and reporting of data. This allows you to record and verify your data processing and security steps. More… -

You need to govern and protect your data while you:

move it
transform it
cleanse it
prepare it for analysis
send it to reports and BI applications.

Most tools:

add layers of complexity
can impact performance and availability of data
do not provide the audit trails needed to satisfy the requirements of your risk and controls framework.

The CoSort SortCL tool lets you replace multiple processes with one, while finally providing simplicity, transparency, compliance and auditability.
Read on to see how CoSort tools can help you:

Data Governance Solutions

Safe Test Data
Master Data Q & S
CDI Acceleration
Data & App Auditing
CDC/Delta Reporting
Data Forensics
Verifying Compliance
User Auditing
CobIT Support

CoSort tools can apply governance policies to data in motion and at risk, while dramatically accelerating data integration through these combinable file processes:

Parallel Data Transformations
File and Data Type Conversions
Field Protections (AES-256, De-ID)
Batch, Summary, and Delta Reporting

Use CoSort for: mainframe sort and data migration projects; data warehouse ETL operations; database reorgs; business intelligence needs; compliance with privacy regulations; and, application development.

Benefits

Parallel sorting, summing, reformatting
Easy 4GL for data staging, reporting
Multi-file joins, dimensional lookups
Field-level protections for data at risk
Custom functions; e.g. data cleansing
Filtering, selection, segmentation
Rapid changed data capture within files
Full data type collation and conversion
CSV, COBOL, LDIF, XML file mapping
Expressions, validations, calculations
Simple syntax, centralized metadata
Multiple UIs and metadata converters
Replacement options for other sorts
Best-of-breed dashboarding option
Supports multiple IT control objectives
Reasonable, perpetual-use license fees

Interoperabilities

CoSort tools work in line with Oracle, DB2 UDB, DataStage, Informatica, the Meta Integration Model Bridge (MIMB), Micro Focus, and the Rapid Architectural Consolidation Engine (RapidACE) for data model visualization and integration across SOA, MDM, DW, BPM and CDI to consolidate disparate systems' data models and leverage their metadata in CoSort data transformation, privacy protection, reporting, and file conversion operations. RapidACE and CoSort tools, including FACT, SortCL, and RowGen run across Windows, Linux and Unix systems.