Introduction to Ab Initio Software

Ab Initio is an enterprise software product from a multinational American software company called Ab Initio Software Inc. The software is known for its exclusive application integration capabilities and metadata management. It also helps developers and software architects who deal with issues related to scalability and development time involved in enterprise data processing systems. Ab Initio software is used with wide range of systems that includes,

• Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
• Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL)
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• On-Line Analytical processing (OLAP)
• Real-time Data Collection & Analysis
• Click-stream Analysis
• Data Mining and
• Data Warehousing

Ab Initio - Compatible Platforms

One of the good things about Ab Initio software is its compatibility can run on any type of hardware. Depending on the requirement, the user can install and run the Ab Initio software from few processors to hundreds of processors. Below are the some of the hardware type supported by Ab Initio...

• Personal Computer Hardware
• Data Clusters
• Symmetric Multiprocessor (SMP) systems
• Massively Parallel Processor (MPP) systems and more...

Supported Operating Systems (OS)

Ab Initio runs on most of the popular operating systems from top manufacturers. Following are the list of operating systems which is supported by Ab Initio software...

• Windows NT
• Windows 2000
• IBM / Sequent DYNIX / ptx
• IBM AIX
• Red Hat Linux
• Sun Solaris
• Hewlett-Packard (HP)-UX
• Compaq Tru64 UNIX
• Siemens Pyramid Reliant UNIX
• Digital UNIX
• NCR MP-RAS
• Silicon Graphics IRIX and etc...