Trillium Software - Hortonworks Alliance Delivers Global Data Quality to Hadoop

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Sep 30, 2015) - STRATA + HADOOP WORLD -- Trillium Software, A Harte Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS) and leading global provider of data quality software, today announced a technology alliance and technical certification with Hortonworks, the leading contributor to and provider of Apache™ Hadoop®. Trillium Big Data now integrates with the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP™), enabling organizations to quickly and easily improve data quality in Hadoop and gain more business value from open source Hadoop environments. In addition, Trillium has introduced new enhancements to Trillium Big Data that deliver more rapid project deployment and enhance support for multinational data sets.

By combining expert data quality solutions with the processing power of Hadoop, organizations can make better data-driven decisions and improve the performance of Big Data initiatives, such as predictive analytics, compliance, and single view of the customer. Companies with HDP can integrate Trillium Big Data for a full suite of data quality capabilities -- including data discovery, parsing, cleansing, matching, and global address verification -- natively in their Hadoop environment utilizing YARN MapReduce in under 90 days.

"In order to derive value from Big Data, organizations need to ensure the accuracy and reliability of ever-growing, multi-domain data sets," said Keith Kohl, vice president, product management at Trillium Software. "Together, Hortonworks and Trillium Software give companies access to more accurate and rapid business information by seamlessly integrating data quality into their Hadoop environments."

Trillium Big Data, which is also Cloudera-certified for Cloudera Enterprise 5, runs natively in Hadoop with minimal programming or coding needed for deployment. With the latest enhancements, customers can now more rapidly build and deploy data quality projects across all nodes in their Hadoop cluster. Additionally, Trillium Big Data now provides full worldwide support, including cleansing and standardization of single- and double-byte languages and global address validation and enrichment. By providing the most comprehensive set of data quality features natively in Hadoop, this solution helps organizations accelerate Big Data projects and ensure the accuracy of critical new data-driven business initiatives.

Trillium will be exhibiting at Strata + Hadoop World in New York City from September 29-October 1. Visit us at Booth #403 to view a demo and learn how Trillium Big Data can improve your Big Data projects.

About Trillium Software
Trillium Software, A Harte Hanks Company, is a leading, global enterprise data quality solutions provider. Our data quality specialists help organizations achieve increased business from their data management initiatives and existing business-critical processes by providing enterprise data profiling and data cleansing software and services. Trillium offers industry-specific business solutions that help solve data problems experienced by financial services, banking, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, and risk, professionals. Trillium's full complement of technologies and services includes global data profiling, data cleansing, enrichment, and data linking for e-business, Big Data, customer relationship management, data governance, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, data warehouse, and other enterprise applications. For more information about Trillium Software and its offerings, call (978) 436-8900 in the United States, in the United Kingdom call +44 (0) 118 940 7666, and +49 7031 714756 in Central Europe, or visit Trillium Software online at www.trilliumsoftware.com.

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