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
Sheryl Handler (born 1955) is an American businesswoman recognized as one of the founders of Thinking Machines who is the founder and current CEO of Ab Initio.
Education and career
Handler attended Case Western Reserve University for interior des ...
, 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
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, complex events, quantitative and qualitative data processing, data manipulation
graphical user interface
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(GUI)-based
parallel processing software
Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
which is commonly used to
extract, transform, and load (ETL) data.
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External links
Official siteThe Ab Initio Professionals Group
Data warehousing products
Development software companies
Extract, transform, load tools
Companies based in Lexington, Massachusetts