Ab Initio Software is an American multinational

enterprise software Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software (EAS), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than individual users. Such organizations include businesses, schools, interest-based user groups, ...

corporation based in

Lexington, Massachusetts Lexington is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is 10 miles (16 km) from Downtown Boston. The population was 34,454 as of the 2020 census. The area was originally inhabited by Native Americans, and was firs ...

. The company specializes in high-volume data processing applications and enterprise application integration. It was founded in 1995 by the former CEO of

Thinking Machines Corporation Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer and artificial intelligence (AI) company, founded in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1983 by Sheryl Handler and Danny Hillis, W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis to turn Hillis's doctoral work at the ...

, Sheryl Handler, and several other former employees after the bankruptcy of that company. The Ab Initio products are provided on a platform for parallel data processing applications. These applications perform functions relating to fourth generation data analysis,

batch processing Computerized batch processing is a method of running software programs called jobs in batches automatically. While users are required to submit the jobs, no other interaction by the user is required to process the batch. Batches may automatically ...

, complex events, quantitative and qualitative data processing, data manipulation

graphical user interface The GUI ( "UI" by itself is still usually pronounced . or ), graphical user interface, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, inste ...

(GUI)-based parallel processing

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which is commonly used to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data.

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Official site

The Ab Initio Professionals Group
Data warehousing products Development software companies Extract, transform, load tools Companies based in Lexington, Massachusetts