Disruptive Software Solutions Aim to Increase Productivity
November 15, 2012
Ben Werther became head of the products division when EMC bought Greenplum in 2010, which Forbes asserts as the first step in founding Platfora. This company plans on disrupting the traditional warehousing and business intelligence and is the subject of the recent article, “Platfora Raises $20 Million To Get Real with Big Data.” The main collateral Platfora has is it’s usage of Hadoop.
Platfora is still in the early phases; there are ten beta customers and more than 70 that are waiting.
The article describes how Platfora increases the value of Hadoop:
Hadoop is not easy to work with. Keep in mind that it’s been mostly the domain of data scientists at companies like Yahoo! and Facebook. But with Platfora, it’s now possible for any company to get tangible business value from Big Data. This is through common sense queries and helpful visualizations. Pulling this off has taken about a year and intense engineering. ‘I’ve never seen better execution from a team,’ said Scott Weiss, who is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
There are a multitude of companies that have presented the business intelligence market with potentially disruptive technologies. PolySpot software solutions fit that bill, but more importantly they help deliver information across the enterprise. Increasing productivity is why these technologies matter after all.
Megan Feil, November 15, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext.
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