Ab Initio Software is a general-purpose data processing platform for enterprise-scale, mission-critical applications, covering the complete range of data processing architectures from batch, to near real-time, through to request-response services. Ab Initio solves the problems of scalability, development time, performance, business rules, metadata management, and integration. Ab Initio is in production at the world’s largest companies in banking, e-commerce, telecommunications, insurance, retail, government and healthcare; running applications as diverse as web message brokers, billing systems, data warehousing, risk and compliance, marketing analytics, and data integration hubs.