Ab initio

If you are looking for the Latin term, see ab initio.

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Ab Initio Software Corporation was founded in the mid 1990's by Sheryl Handler, the former CEO at Thinking Machines Corporation, after TMC filed for bankruptcy. In addition to Handler, other former TMC people involved in the founding of Ab Initio included Cliff Lasser, Angela Lordi, and Craig Stanfill.

Ab Initio is known for being very secretive in the way that they run their business, but their software is widely regarded as top notch.

The Ab Initio software is a fourth generation data analysis, batch processing, data manipulation graphical user interface (GUI)-based parallel processing tool that is used mainly to extract, transform and load data.

The Ab Initio software is a suite of products that together provides platform for robust data processing applications. The Core Ab Initio Products are: "The Co>Operating System", "The Component Library" and The Graphical Development Environment.

The Co>Operating System Runs across a variety of Operating Systems and Hardware Platforms including OS/390 on Mainframe, Unix, and Windows. Supports distributed and parallel execution. Can provide scalability proportional to the hardware resources provided. Supports platform independent data transport.

The Component Library: Reusable software Modules for Sorting, Data Transformation, database Loading Etc. The components adapt at runtime to the record formats and business rules controlling their behavior.

The Graphical Development Environment Enables you to create applications by dragging and dropping Components. Allows you to point and click operations on executable flow charts. The Co>Operating System can execute these flowcharts directly. Graphical monitoring of running applications allows you to quantify data volumes and execution times, helping spot opportunities for improving performance.

Ab Initio products have helped reduce a project’s development and research time significantly.

External Links:

http://www.abinitio.com/

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