Ab Initio Software Corporation provides software for building, powering, and managing information processing systems. Its Co>Operating System provides data transformation engine for data processing. Co>Operating System delivers facilities, including distributed and parallel execution, platform independent data transport, check pointing, and process monitoring. The company’s products also comprise Component Library, a set of software modules to perform sorting, data transforming, and high speed data loading and unloading tasks; and Graphical Development Environment that lets one to create applications by dragging and dropping components into a canvas, configuring them with familiar point and click operations, and connecting them into executable platforms. It provides solutions for finance, retail, transportation, telecom, and insurance companies. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.