Ab Initio Software Corporation is a computer software company based in Lexington, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1995 by the former CEO of Thinking Machines Corporation, Sheryl Handler, and several other former employees after the bankruptcy of that company.
The Ab Initio products provide a platform for data processing applications. These applications perform functions relating to fourth generation data analysis, batch processing, data manipulation graphical user interface (GUI)-based parallel processing software which is commonly used to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data.
Ab Initio products include: Graphical Development Environment (GDE), Co>Operating System, Enterprise Meta>Environment (EME), Conduct>It, the Component Library, Data Profiler, and Business Rules Environment (BRE).