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Ab Initio Software Corporation was founded in the mid 1990's by Sheryl Handler, the former CEO at Thinking Machines Corporation, after TMC filed for bankruptcy. In addition to Handler, other former TMC people involved in the founding of Ab Initio included Cliff Lasser, Bob Lordi, and Craig Stanfill.

Ab Initio is known for being very secretive in the way that they run their business, but their software is widely regarded as top notch.

The Ab Initio software is a Fourth Generation data analysis, Batch Processing , data manipulation Graphical User Interface (GUI)-based Parallel Processing tool that is used mainly to Extract, Transform And Load Data .

The Ab Initio Software is a suite of products that together provides platform for robust data processing applications. The Core Ab Initio Products are:
The Co>Operating System
The Component Library
The Graphical Development Environment

The Co>Operating System
Runs across a huge variety of Operating Systems and Hardware Platforms, from OS/390 On Mainframe , to Unix , Windows .
Supports distributed and parallel execution
Can provide unlimited scalability proportional to the Hardware resources provided.
Supports platform independent data transport, runs heterogeneously across huge variety of Operating systems and hardware platforms.

The Component Library:
Powerful Reusable software Modules for Sorting, Data Transformation, database Loading Etc.
The components adapt at runtime to the record formats and business rules controlling their behavior.

The Graphical Development Environment
Enables you to create applications by dragging and dropping Components, allows you to point and click operations on executable flow charts.
Co>Operating systems can execute these flowcharts directly.
Graphical monitoring of running applications makes it easy to quantify data volumes and execution times, helping spot opportunities for improving

Besides providing high performance and highly flexible data processing environment, the powerful abinitio products help reduce a project’s development and research time significantly.