5 Startups Making Big Data Business Friendly
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- JethroData: “An acceleration layer”
- Datafiniti: “Instant access to Web data”
- Alation: “The collaborative data company”
- Kyvos Insights: “Unlock the power of Big Data analytics with ‘OLAP on Hadoop' technology”
- Arcadia Data: “Unified visual analytics and BI platform for Big Data”
- JethroData: “An acceleration layer”
JethroData: “An acceleration layer”
Big Boast: The company claims its engine produces results up to 100 times faster than alternative SQL-on-Hadoop solutions.
Datafiniti: “Instant access to Web data”
First, it uses a cloud-based Web crawler, 80legs, so users can log into a browser to launch custom queries. This runs on Amazon Web Services, which means it can be integrated into existing business application and will scale accordingly. Second, it cleans up the data using new technologies such as natural language processing and automated validation application so the data is immediately usable.
Big Boast: Nickelodeon used Datafiniti to ensure its branded products were priced correctly for families, no matter where they were sold online.
Alation: “The collaborative data company”
Big Boast: Teradata made Alation a strategic partner for data cataloging in its Universal Data Architecture.
Kyvos Insights: “Unlock the power of Big Data analytics with ‘OLAP on Hadoop' technology”
Kyvos works on all major Hadoop distributions and supports Microsoft Excel and Tableau. Other solutions that bring OLAP cubes to Hadoop include AtScale and Teradata's Think Big Analytics, according to a 451 Research report published last year.
Big Boast: CRN Magazine named the flagship product, Kyvos, one of the coolest big data products of the year in its “Tech Midyear in Review.”
Arcadia Data: “Unified visual analytics and BI platform for Big Data”
Big Boast: Arcadia Data offers unified front-end visual analytics tools and BI platform. It also recently launched a user community, including a forum and a library of articles and tutorials.
JethroData: “An acceleration layer”
Big Boast: The company claims its engine produces results up to 100 times faster than alternative SQL-on-Hadoop solutions.
One of the biggest trends in Big Data analytics is making data more accessible to business users, so they can make business decisions with little if any input from data scientists and other data specialists. Many companies are springing up to meet this need, including these five interesting Big Data analytics startups. Their approaches are different, but they share a common goal: Make Big Data easier for business users to find, access, analyze and use.
These five Big Data analytics startups are all about making it easier for business users to find, access and analyze Big Data.