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Syncsort Incorporated is a privately held software company specializing in the development and sale of data integration, data protection and data sorting and data manipulation products for Windows, Unix, Linux, and mainframe systems. According to its website, Syncsort products are used by over 90 of the Fortune 100 companies and can be found in over 12,000 customer sites worldwide. These customers operate in a range of industries including manufacturing, consumer goods, transportation, local and federal governments, and health care. Syncsort is headquartered in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, USA. It has offices in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, with an international support center in The Netherlands.

Products
Syncsort sells to large and medium-sized businesses. Syncsort marketing emphasizes speed. It's products are designed to back up and recover data rapidly in distributed, heterogenous environments and to speed data warehouse processing, database loads, and query performance. Syncsort offers its solutions through three families of products: DMExpress, Backup Express, and SyncSort.

DMExpress
DMExpress is a data management product, typically used for ETL, data warehousing, and business intelligence applications. The program transforms and consolidates disparate data from multiple sources. System administrators and analysts can use DMExpress to create and maintain aggregate data stores from flat files and to pre-process data to speed database loads and to optimize reporting. Syncsort is also used for changed data capture (CDC) operations. Syncsort markets DMExpress primarily on the basis of speed and CPU efficiency.

Backup Express
Backup Express is used for disaster recovery and business continuity. Backup Express integrates snapshot, image and rapid recovery options, works across Fibre Channel or iSCSI networks while sharing all enterprise drives, and supports NDMP incrmentals. Utilizing D2D techniques, including block-level incremental backups and image-based storage, Backup Express offers recovery in place, server re-imaging, and thin cloning capabilities. According to Syncsort's website, the Backup Express D2D capability typically increases backup speed by 90%, minimizes data storage by a ratio of 26:1, and reduces bandwidth usage by more than 90% when compared to file-level, tape-based backups.

Backup Express is certified for use with most vendors of SAN, NAS, disk-storage, tape libraries, switched, and operating systems. Syncsort maintains strategic partnerships for Backup Express, including Novell, IBM, Oracle, SAP, NetApp, VMWare, and Microsoft.

SyncSort
The SyncSort family of products provide data sorting and transformation capabilities for mainframe systems as well as UNIX, Windows, Linux. Primarily marketing on the basis of claimed superiority in processing speed and CPU efficiency for large volumes of data, Syncsort's sort products also provide standard data transformation capabilities such as filtering, reformatting, converting, and summarizing.

SyncSort for z/OS
SyncSort for z/OS is a sort/merge/copy and data management utility designed to exploit the zSeries computers and the z/OS operating system's advanced facilities, including the IBM MIDAW and System z9 Integrated Information Processors (zIIP). SyncSort for z/OS also supports S/390, the OS/390 operating system, and compatible computers. Syncsort's brochure on the product claims that it's technology, including proprietary sorting algorithms, "improves sort performance while optimizing overall system efficiency."

SyncSort VSE
SyncSort VSE is a sort/merge/copy program for IBM z/VSE and VSE/ESA operating systems. Like SyncSort for z/OS, SyncSort VSE is designed to reduce CPU resources.

Other Syncsort Products
Two other add-on products work with SyncSort for z/OS. PipeSort eliminates the I/O overhead for large sorts with multiple input. Syncsort claims that PipeSort parallel sort technology can reduce the overall elapsed processing time by more than 50% compared with running separate sort operations. According to Syncsort's website, PROC SYNCSORT is a performance-boosting replacement for SAS® PROC SORT. A third ancillary product is FilePort, a data conversion tool used for migration between mainframe and UNIX environments.