CoSORT Releases Version 7.5 of Sort/ETL Package

Innovative Routines International Inc (The CoSORT Company) announced a significant upgrade to its flagship sort/ETL package for all Unix and Windows platforms. Key developments include a more robust GUI that is Java-based for client-server design and execution, and significant enhancements to CoSORT's Sort Control Language (SortCL). SortCL is a high-level data definition and manipulation program for data warehouse transforms, loads, and reports. Current 7.1 CoSORT users under maintenance can upgrade to 7.5 without charge.

"Version 7.5 is the interim release that accelerates CoSORT's advantages in the sort/ETL market," according to David Friedland, IRI's vice president of Business Development. "CoSORT is the leader in sort-related functionality and these new features for Internet and international data manipulation demonstrate this commitment."

• Clickstream Features For eCRM and "data webhouse" analysis of Web logs and Internet traffic, CoSORT 7.5 features direct collation and grouping of IP address data, metadata conversion for ELF files, support for manual HTML/SGML report encoding, and inner and outer joins to match "click-to-brick" transactions.
• New Data Type, Conversion Support CoSORT 7.5 now compares and collates between more than 100 data types, including signed numerics and multinational timestamps, plus many double-byte character sets, including Unicode's UTF-8.
• Aggregation Features In addition to CoSORT's support for cross-tabular calculations and drill-down min, max, average, sum, count, and sequence values, SortCL (CoSORT's Sort Control Language) users can now display running (accumulating) aggregate values, plus aggregates of cross-calculated values, and cross-calculated aggregate values.
• Java GUI Improvements Installation of the gui2scl application across all platforms has been standardized and simplified. "Tree" navigation, file browsing, in-context help, and support for new SortCL functionality are included.
• Competitive Sort Replacement CoSORT's new rescript program allows existing SyncSort Unix sort scripts in production to continue running with CoSORT's SortCL engine, removing lease expiry deadline pressure while improving speed and flexibility.

About CoSORT

Innovative Routines International Inc, CoSORT is the world's first, fastest, and most widely licensed commercial sort package on high-end Unix and Windows platforms. CoSORT features several end-user and programmer interfaces to a parallel processing sort algorithm in coroutine architecture. Included in its hardware-based, perpetual use prices are: third party sort replacement and mainframe sort conversion tools; data warehouse ETL and report generation functionality; SMP operations and tuning; on-line documentation; and, technical support in more than 30 countries. Call 1-800-333-SORT, or visit www.cosort.com/public.