SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arcadia Data, provider of the first visual analytics software native to Apache™ Hadoop® and the cloud, today announced it has received a 2018 Technology Innovation Award for Big Data Analytics from Dresner Advisory Services for the second year in a row. The awards were conferred upon the top-ranked vendors in Dresner’s 2018 Wisdom of Crowds® series of thematic market studies. The annual research reports are based on data collected from end users and provide a real-world perspective on various technical capabilities related to the business intelligence (BI) and analytics markets.
Dresner awarded accolades to vendors in a number of categories. The analyst firm recognized Arcadia Data for its technology leadership in the 2018 Big Data Analytics Market Study. According to Dresner, the big data analytics category refers to systems that enable end-user access to and analysis of data contained and managed within the Hadoop ecosystem.
“Arcadia Data is honored by the recognition of its leadership in big data analytics from Dresner,” said Sushil Thomas, co-founder and CEO, Arcadia Data. “It is clear that organizations need purpose-built solutions to elicit value from data in modern platforms, such as Hadoop, Kafka, and the cloud. Arcadia Data has worked hard to help customers democratize data through capabilities like search-based business intelligence, visual analytics on streaming data, and AI-enabled features. We look forward to continuing to innovate and enable improved access to and analytics on big data for all users.”
“Across the years of our study of the Big Data Analytics Market, we see a strong upward trend in adoption, and an increase in industry sentiment as well,” said Howard Dresner, founder and chief research officer at Dresner Advisory Services. “We congratulate Arcadia Data on once again being a winner of a Technology Innovation Award for Big Data Analytics.”
Many of today’s BI and analytics tools require users to think in terms of data sets and fields when analyzing their data or rely on data scientists and analysts to generate insights. Arcadia Data has focused on developing and delivering technology to market that addresses these pain points by furthering the consumerization of data and analytics. Innovations as a result of this investment include:
- Search-based BI and analytics native to Hadoop and the cloud for Arcadia Enterprise, which makes deriving value from organizational data as easy as using an Internet search engine.
- The industry’s first native visual analytics for Apache Kafka®. Arcadia Data is the first company to provide a native integration with Kafka via Confluent KSQL.
- Machine-assisted insights that streamline big data analytics, enabling greater accessibility and self-service to business analysts. Machine-assisted insights also reduce the complexity of handling modern data types and the associated workflows.
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About Arcadia Data
Arcadia Data provides the first visual analytics and BI platform native to big data that delivers the scale, performance, and agility business users need to discover and productionize real-time insights. Its flagship product, Arcadia Enterprise, was built from inception to run natively within big data platforms, in the cloud and/or on-premises, to streamline the self-service analytics process on data in Apache Hadoop®, Apache Spark®, Apache Kafka®, and Apache Solr®. It enables real-time, high-definition insights in use cases like data lakes, cybersecurity, connected IoT devices, and customer intelligence. Arcadia Enterprise is deployed by some of the world’s leading brands, including Procter & Gamble, Nokia, Royal Bank of Canada, Kaiser Permanente, HPE, and Neustar. To learn more, follow @ArcadiaData or visit www.arcadiadata.com.
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