NextForm

IRI NextForm: Efficient Data Migration and Conversion for Modern Businesses

IRI NextForm is a powerful data migration and formatting software that helps businesses free their data from outdated systems and make it usable for modern applications. The program addresses a critical challenge faced by many organizations: the difficulty of efficiently converting and integrating data from various sources and formats.

Key Features and Benefits

• Comprehensive Format Support: NextForm supports a wide range of file formats, databases, and unstructured sources, enabling businesses to extract and process data from nearly any system.
• Data Type Conversion: The software can process and convert different data type groups, making it easier to integrate data from diverse systems.
• Database Migration: NextForm allows seamless transitions between database providers, increasing flexibility and reducing dependency on specific technologies.
• Data Federation: By creating federated views, businesses can gain insights from multiple data sources more quickly.
• High-Performance Processing: NextForm leverages IRI CoSort technology for efficient processing of large data volumes without requiring expensive hardware.

Unique Selling Proposition

NextForm stands out due to its combination of performance and ease of use. It is the only data migration tool that integrates CoSort's high-volume data transformation technology with the familiar Eclipse interface.

Customer Benefits

• Cost Savings: No need for expensive hardware or in-memory databases.
• Flexibility: Support for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Efficiency: Fast processing of large data volumes without limitations.
• Future-Proofing: Liberation from legacy formats and vendor lock-ins.

Use Case Example

A mid-sized company plans to migrate from an outdated database to a modern cloud solution. With NextForm, they can:

• Extract data from the old VSAM database.
• Convert data types for the new MySQL database.
• Integrate unstructured data from old Word documents and emails.
• Create a federated view that combines data from various sources.
• Load the converted and cleaned data into the new cloud database.

This process, which would typically take weeks and require significant manual effort, can be automated with NextForm in just a few days—saving time and resources while improving data quality.

Various editions of NextForm are available, including a FREE Lite version for converting field data types, record layouts, and many flat-file formats, as well as generating basic reports from flat files.