Workday Nabs Platfora as Big Data Consolidates

Human capital management (HCM) software maker Workday last week bought Platfora, one of the oldest providers of Hadoop-based analytic solutions. The deal showcases both the need for analytic prowess in the enterprise sof Read more…

Platfora Seeds Big Data Future in Openness

Platfora launched its end-to-end analytics application for Hadoop when the only other option was to build your own. To that end, Big Data Discovery has everything you need. But with today's update to the tool--issued on Read more…

Platfora Riding High on Wave of Big Data Growth

The big data analytics business at Platfora is booming these days, accounting for 100 percent revenue growth this year. With a $30 million round in funding announced yesterday and software industry veteran Jason Zintak n Read more…

Inside Platfora’s Transition to Apache Spark

Platfora has embraced Apache Spark as the underlying data processing engine in version 5 of Big Data Discovery, which it announced today. But the company hasn't completely gotten rid of MapReduce in its Hadoop applicatio Read more…

How to Get a ‘Network Effect’ from Your Big Data Lake

One of the hidden benefits of being a data-driven organization is a so-called "network effect" that occurs around data and analytics. When an organization has several successful big data analytics projects under its belt Read more…

A Bet Against Hadoop That Hopes to Deliver Big Gains

Two years ago, Greenplum veteran Ben Werther made a bet against Hadoop that led him on a journey to improve how enterprises could utilize and provide access to the data housed in the platform. This week, the company he founded, Platfora, launches the in-memory analytics platform that is the culmination of that bet. Read more…

Self-Service Data Mining, Hold the Bottlenecks

Business line analysts are too often stuck in gyrations between the database admins and the database itself, says Platfora CEO, Ben Werther. The legacy database model will have to be replaced with more efficient processes, argues Werther, who believe his company's scale-out, in-memory solution might be what the data doctor ordered. Read more…