Big Data EcoSystem

Advanced Digital Technology’s ADAM data management service products are based on Hadoop computing platform, support massive data archive and storage, information search, on-line data processing, report statistics and other functions.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

Advanced Digital Technology’s ADAM data management service product integrated with IBM’s InfoSphere BigInsight, with BigInsight’s high efficiency in massive data processing and the adaptability to different types of data format, ADAM platform can fully support massive relational and non-relational archived data analysis. By full integration with InfoSphere BigInsight , ADAM products build a full-featured data management platform with comprehensive data analysis capabilities and excellent performance.

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Attivio’s Unified Information Access (UIA) platform, the Active Intelligence Engine™ (link resides outside of ibm.com) (AIE), redefines the business impact of our customers’ information assets. Attivio correlates disparate silos of structured data and unstructured content in ways never before possible. Offering both intuitive search capabilities and the power of SQL, AIE seamlessly integrates with existing BI and big data tools to reveal insight that matters, through the access method that best suits each user’s technical skills and priorities.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

Attivio’s Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) works tightly with the IBM Netezza and the IBM BigInsights platforms to provide a unified information access layer that offers Business Intelligence (IBM Netezza and Cognos), Content Intelligence (Attivio AIE), Continuous Intelligence (IBM Streams) and Analytics Intelligence (IBM BigInsights) across all information sources including structured data and unstructured data and content. AIE’s service oriented architecture, agile universal index, rich query APIs, JDBC and ODBC drivers and connector framework enable access to information inside and outside of the IBM technology stack to enable users to access all information in the way that best suits their technical skills, whether that is search, SQL, MapReduce or BI.

“Attivio enhances IBM business intelligence and Big Data technologies by unifying information across these analytics engines with internal and external sources, structured and unstructured; making all information, accessible to all enterprise users. This powerful combination provides customers with a complete platform for mastering extremely demanding and rapidly evolving information landscapes.”

• Data sheet: Active Intelligence Engine™ (AIE) - A Complete Unified Information Access Platform (487KB)
• Data sheet: Active Intelligence Engine™ (AIE) for Extreme Information - Completing the Big Data Picture (433KB)

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The RIFLE Software™ application is designed to help law enforcement agencies easily identify officer risk in five major areas: lethal use of force, non-lethal use of force, misconduct, pursuits, and collisions. The application uses risk dashboards to identify patterns at a management level and provides detailed data analysis capability once a potential liability issue is uncovered. This allows an agency to take corrective action through training or discipline before a pattern of conduct manifests itself. In this manner, lawsuits can be avoided or minimized through monitoring and public trust is maintained with transparency and accountability.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

RIFLE Software™ uses BigInsights to integrate unstructured data into the analysis of risk related incidents to provide more thorough insight into employee behavior. The structured data is married with analysis of text, feeds, and images from both internal and external sources. These additional sources provide deeper insight into the context of the employee behavior.

“We are excited to integrate the IBM BigInsights capability into our RIFLE (Risk Information for Law Enforcement) Software™ product”, said Ed Cadow, CEO of Cadow Software. “The addition of BigInsights expands our reach into a new collection of identifiers that help agencies more thoroughly manage employee risk.”

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Citrusleaf is a powerful NoSQL database product designed for Big Data web scale mission critical applications. Citrusleaf is now widely used in applications requiring real-time access to many terabytes of data with extremely high transaction requirements, full database integrity (ACID compliance), highly scalable, ultra low latency and 24x7 uptime.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:
Citrusleaf integrates with IBM’s Big Data strategy by being the high performance in-memory and flash based data store providing the ability to process hundreds of thousands of transactions per second per commodity server node and automatically scales up linearly with more cluster nodes. Uniquely, Citrusleaf excels at both read and write throughput, while maintaining data reliability and high availability. Citrusleaf already has become the underlying component of some of the largest mission critical applications, running at full internet scalability while 100% online. Citrusleaf provides the real-time storage engine for acting on big data batch results. Today, Citrusleaf’s customer’s applications use Hadoop, Netezza, and other map/reduce solutions, and store actionable real time results alongside raw real-time data. These results drive optimal business decisions and optimizations with millisecond granularity over terrabytes of data. When IBM’s Big Data solutions require real-time actions, Citrusleaf can be a critical infrastructure component.
Citrusleaf enhances IBM’s Big Data product offering by providing a world class database architected from the ground up for web scale mission critical applications. Citrusleaf handles hundreds of thousand of transactions per second per node and at the same time being highly reliable (100% availability) and be able to scale as the business requires.

• White paper: Citrusleaf 2.0 Architecture Overview (497KB)
• Data sheet: Citrusleaf 2.0 (243KB)
• Data sheet: Citrusleaf Real-Time Attribution (RTA) (293KB)
• Citrusleaf Key-Value Benchmarks (84.5KB)

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Big data, all that disparate information organizations collect from millions of customer transactions through multiple touch points, has untapped value – but only when all the consumer interactions are connected and woven into meaningful experience journeys. ClickFox experience analytics software and solutions track every individual interaction that every customer has with a given company, at every step in the path, across all channels, and delivers insights on critical trends: where breakdowns and successes occur, and where opportunities lie for improvement and growth.

ClickFox is the only company today that ties all this information together into a complete view of customer experience at the individual level - and across an entire customer base – along with its impact on business outcomes. Analyzing customer behavior for over 400 million consumer accounts across retail stores, web sites, contact centers, email, chat, mobile/SMS and social media, ClickFox continues to grow its interaction analytics cloud, a broad, deep data repository revealing powerful consumer trends and benchmarking insights across industries.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

Combined with IBM’s Big Data Platform, ClickFox’s cross-channel analytic engine will analyze structured and unstructured data from warehouses to build a visual mapping of product and customer experiences across the enterprise. The experience analytics solution will yield powerful insight into consumer behavior, channel conflict, marketing and sales effectiveness, retention strategies and the impact of product and service issues on customers. By revealing hidden bottom-line connections between products, touch points, consumers and business outcomes, organizations can reduce costs, increase satisfaction and loyalty and drive revenue and competitive advantage. Organizations benefit from a multi-dimensional view of their business from several lenses, including: employee, customer, product, service, company and influence, and can focus analysis on the most critical areas.

Working with IBM, ClickFox will continue to build a broad, deep interaction analytic cloud housing billions of consumer interactions which enable unparalleled insight into behavior trends, patterns and the real financial impact of customer experience.

“Companies today are storing massive volumes of Big Data but aren’t even seeing a fraction of the value because of the limitations with analyzing structured and unstructured sources and connecting the dots across the enterprise,” said Marco Pacelli, CEO of ClickFox. “The powerful combination of our unique ability to deliver rapid, cross-channel insight across any data source from product and customer behavior to social media sentiment, coupled with IBM’s industry-leading data expertise offers organizations a way to gain strategic business insight from Big Data for increased revenue, profitability and competitive differentiation.”

• Brochure: ClickFox overview brochure (754KB)
• Video: Customer Success Montag (7:47)
• Video: Understanding Customer Experience Montage (3:12)
• Video: ClickFox CEO discusses experience analytics (1:32)

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Apache Hadoop, an open-source platform, is becoming a standard within organizations that are trying to draw insight from all the "big data" being generated. Hadoop, and a handful of open-source tools that complement it, has no equal when it comes to making gigantic and diverse datasets easily available for quick analysis using clusters of inexpensive computers. Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) is the most comprehensive, tested, stable and widely deployed distribution of Hadoop in commercial and non-commercial environments.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:
IBM and Cloudera integrate CDH and Cloudera Manager with IBM’s big data platform, allowing organizations to optimize their investment in Cloudera while benefitting from IBM’s enterprise platform capabilities. The partnership provides customers with unique advantages:

• IBM InfoSphere BigInsights now runs on CDH, pushing the limits of high performance, scalability and platform extensibility.
• A complete solution which includes BI tools (BigSheets, text analytics) and connectors to IBM Netezza, IBM DB2, IBM InfoSphere Warehouse and IBM Smart Analytics System.
• Customers can go beyond BI into the world of next-gen applications that innovate on data.

Together, these technologies deliver a world-class solution that enables any organization to harness the transformative power of big data analytics.

“Big Data is more than a challenge; it is an opportunity to find insight in new and emerging types of data, to make your business more agile, and to answer questions that, in the past, were beyond reach,” said name, title, IBM. “IBM’s platform for Big Data uses technologies like Hadoop to open the door to a world of possibilities, and by partnering with Cloudera, we are empowering our customers with more choices when deploying this game-changing technology.”

• Cloudera product demo
• Cloudera recorded webinars
• Cloudera training
• Additional Cloudera resources

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CQuotient is focused on understanding customer’s individual tastes and preferences. Our expertise is taking huge amounts of structured and unstructured data on consumer behavior (transactions, engagement, web + in-store behavior, etc), applying leading edge algorithms and techniques, and gleaning predictive tastes for every customer. We then use that knowledge to dramatically improve marketing and merchandising decisions.

No longer will Amazon know your customers better than you do!

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:
The CQuotient solution integrates seamlessly with the IBM suite, turbo-powering the value retailers can realize from their IBM assets.

First, we leverage Core Metrics tagging and logs to understand consumer’s web behavior. Once we merge that data with other data sources, our advanced modeling and predictive algorithms operate within the IBM InfoSphere BigInsights environment, which means we can leverage the full power the IBM big data technology stack.

And once we have derived tastes for every customer, we are able to feed them directly into IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management tools (such as Unica) so marketers can easily take advantage of our insights to create highly targeted and relevant marketing campaigns across all media.

“IBM has a full vision for how big data can be used to create value for retailers and we are extremely pleased to be their partner,“ said Rama Ramakrishnan, CEO of CQuotient. “Through our partnership, we are able to provide value-added insight that truly brings their vision to life.”

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The Datameer Analytics Solution provides four key elements:

• Wizard-based data integration platform designed for IT users and BI analysts to integrate large datasets of structured and unstructured data
• Integrated analytics with familiar spreadsheet-like interface with over 180 built-in analytic functions
• Drag and drop reporting and dash boarding visualization for business-users
• Big data scalability and cost-effectiveness of Hadoop together with IT management tools that overcome Hadoop's heavy technical burden

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:
Datameer utilizes and runs on IBM’s platform for big data which provides a dependable, enterprise ready implementation of Apache Hadoop. Datameer provides a packaged business intelligence platform on IBM’s platform for big data that helps overcome Hadoop's complexity and lack of end-user tools by providing business and IT users with business intelligence (BI) functionality across data integration, analytics and data visualization in the world's first BI platform for Hadoop.

"Datameer and IBM have a shared vision on the exploding big data market and the pivotal role that Hadoop plays to bring cost effective analytics to business users,” commented Stefan Groschupf, CEO of Datameer. “We are very excited to support IBM’s platform for big data and leverage its functionality so that our joint customers can take advantage of IBM’s enterprise ready implementation of Apache Hadoop”.

• Data sheet (293.4KB)

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Uncovering hidden connections by reading and processing data in advance, Synthesys empowers the data analyst to make smart decisions faster. Synthesys automates the understanding of cloud-scale data and uncovers the hidden connections of entities that lie within.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:
Synthesys® integrates with InfoSphere BigInsights by seamlessly operating in the scalable Hadoop environment. Synthesys brings unique value to the InfoSphere BigInsights solution by automatically transforming massive amounts of text into the underlying facts and connections.

By performing this knowledge extraction process without any a priori definition of the meaning of words (e.g. no use of ontology, taxonomy, etc.) Synthesys uniquely identifies associations and non-obvious connections by digitally examining and comparing contexts around extracted facts.

This also allows Synthesys to continue to be useful in “dirty data” (all caps, machine translations, etc.) as well as coded language. Through our API, integration of the analysis results of Synthesys can be seamlessly integrated into IBM BigSheets and other emerging visualization and workflow solutions.

“We are excited to be a part of the IBM InfoSphere Big Insights platform”, said Rob Metcalf, President and COO of Digital Reasoning. “Adding our entity-oriented analysis of unstructured data to IBM’s scalability and reliability, we look to continue building the next generation of big data enterprise solutions”.

• Data sheet (870.7KB)
• White paper (500.3KB)

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GoldBot Consulting helps to solve the big data dilemma by providing the custom solutions you need for more effective and efficient geospatial data mining.
We provide a number of different services including Predictive Geospatial Intelligence that can be used in a variety of ways for both commercial and government needs.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:
We are looking to work with BigInsights and Streams with our custom solutions. Our value brings geospatial data mining on a large scale.

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Hadapt provides a next-generation analytics platform that brings together the power and scalability of Hadoop with the speed of relational databases. The Hadapt solution offers deep SQL support at scale, and the ability to work with structured and unstructured data within the same platform.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

Leveraging IBM's enterprise-focused distribution of Hadoop, Hadapt provides a powerful and fast analytic solution for structured and unstructured data. Our integration with IBM allows data scientists and business analysts to harness the speed and scalability of Hadapt's cutting-edge database research.

"IBM's investment in Hadoop further emphasizes the growing importance of this technology," said Justin Borgman, CEO of Hadapt. "We are excited to work with IBM to provide comprehensive Big Data analytic solutions to the enterprise."

• Data sheet (281KB)

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Hypertable is a high performance, open source, scalable database modeled after Bigtable, Google’s proprietary database management system. Written in C++ for optimal performance, Hypertable can deliver equivalent database capacity that you would get with a Java implementation but using a fraction of the hardware. Less hardware means fewer servers, less networking equipment, less power consumption, less datacenter real estate, and therefore lower overall cost. In addition live applications benefit from the performance that Hypertable has to offer through reduced database request latency and therefore a more responsive user experience. For offline applications Hypertable delivers higher throughput, which means more work can be accomplished in a given amount of time.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:
Hypertable seamlessly overlays on top of the InfoSphere BigInsights Hadoop distribution. Getting Hypertable up and running on top of InfoSphere BigInsights is a simple matter of installing Hypertable and replacing the Hadoop core jar file with the one that ships with InfoSphere BigInsights. Hypertable brings a supercharged scalable database management system to any InfoSphere BigInsights deployment.

"We are excited to team up with IBM to offer the industry a high-performance and robust big data ecosystem," said Doug Judd, CEO, Hypertable Inc. "Hypertable's massively scalable database technology coupled with IBM's BigInsights, enables organizations to deploy big data applications with a minimal hardware footprint, significantly reducing overall costs and allowing them to efficiently leverage and take full advantage of all of the power of big data."

• Hypertable Inc web site
• Datasheet: Hypertable Overview (739KB)
• White Paper: Hypertable Architecture (677KB)

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Information Builders provides software and services that bring smarter decision-making and streamlined processes to leading organizations in every industry worldwide. Our software is installed in tens of thousands of locations, servicing millions of users. The WebFOCUS (link resides outside of ibm.com) business intelligence platform delivers massively scalable information applications, analytics, and customer-facing portals to the new generation of information users to deliver game-changing business results. The iWay Software (link resides outside of ibm.com) integration platform allows enterprises to leverage all of their information resources to streamline internal and business-to-business processes while escalating the overall accessibility and integrity of information regardless of environmental complexity.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

Fully integrated with the IBM InfoSphere BigInsights platform, Information Builders integrates any data source into InfoSphere BigInsights, assures the quality and reliability of the data, and offers the ability to transform big data into decision making that fuels business. Information Builders easy-to-use predictive and sentiment analytics, dashboards, and business intelligence powered by InfoSphere BigInsights empower business users to strategize thanks to actionable information.

• White paper: Five Things You Need to Know About Your Users Before You Deploy Business Intelligence (1.05MB)
• White paper: Big Data Analytics and The New Era of Data Warehousing (1.10MB)

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InsightsOne empowers consumer marketers to exploit the unprecedented power of predictive analytics on Big Data to grow profits and increase consumer engagement.

While the top-10 Internet companies such as Google, Amazon and Yahoo! have built such capability in-house, we make it possible for any company to gain similar capability quickly with low risk and cost.

We offer real-time precision targeting that optimizes the relevance and profitability of offers to consumers. Based on powerful micro-segmentation, we extract signals from social, mobile, unstructured and structured data to optimize offers delivered by email, mobile, in-app and web communications.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:
InsightsOne is certified to run on IBM’s Big Insights Hadoop distribution. IBM customers may leverage InsightsOne Precision Targeting to increase their profits and therefore the return on their investment in IBM’s Big Insights.

InsightsOne may be deployed on-premise or used as a cloud-based service.

“InsightsOne and IBM share the vision of Big Data as a game changing asset” said Waqar Hasan, CEO of InsightsOne. “We are excited to help IBM customers increase profits through dramatically increased effectiveness of their interactions with consumers across all channels”.

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Integral Analytics (IA) uses sophisticated models to develop powerful software tools that reach every aspect of the energy industry. Our tools provide our clients with precise valuations and forecasts, faster and more cost effectively. IA’s analytic models are currently used to:

• Value DSM/DR programs in support of IRP planning
• Forecast loads for T&D engineering and reliability planning
• Measure transformer overloading and load at risk (LARA),
• Value customer margins and loads for cost-to-tariff, customer switching, and fixed bill analysis
• Optimize supply-side resource planning
• Measure structured commodity value and utility Value-at-Risk (VaR)
• Report nodal and locational cost of supply
• Micro-dispatch of demand-side assets to maximize the utilities avoided cost, given customer-established constraints, cost of service, demand, and market conditions.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

IA’s patented IDROP (IntegratingDispatchable Resources into an Optimization Portfolio), uses end-use level forecasting and mathematical optimizations on data collected through the smart grid to dispatch appliances, electric vehicles, photovoltaic generation, wind generation, and distributed storage units in near real-time. In order to manage this massive amount of data efficiently and rapidly, IDROP uses:

• InfoSphere Streams to process, aggregate, and compile the incoming data from smart meters, Home Area Networks (HAN), and market/generation prices in real-time.
• Informix TimeSeries to store this data in a format which allows for rapid queries.
• ILOG/CPLEX to rapidly solve the advanced optimization models.

“IDROP the forgotten engine for next-generation demand response”
Jesse Berst, SmartGridNews.com, January 4, 2011.

• IDROP Overview (1.35MB)
• IDROP Published Paper (1.81MB)

  (from Metering International, issue 2, 2010)

• Paper presented at the AESP 2010 meeting (239KB)
• IDROP Brochure (462KB)

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Jaspersoft's open source business intelligence software has nearly 14 million product downloads worldwide, more than 165,000 production deployments and 14,000 commercial customers in 100 countries. Jaspersoft is based in San Francisco and is backed by leading VCs and strategic investors.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

Fully integrated with the IBM InfoSphere BigInsights platform, Jaspersoft BI Suite provides InfoSphere BigInsights users with plug-and-play access to their organization’s big data and the ability to combine this with information from a wide range of other sources, e.g. the web and subscription services. Jaspersoft’s easy-to-use reporting, dashboard and analytic tools enable BI builders and business users to build, for example, a 360o view of a customer’s history, website behavior and credit record for retail analytic and targeting applications. InfoSphere BigInsights and Jaspersoft are ideally suited for departmental applications within the enterprise or complete BI solutions for larger SMB customers.

“Jaspersoft truly believes that the ease of use of the market-leading Jaspersoft BI Suite integrated with the power of BigInsights and backed by IBM’s unparalleled global support, make a compelling big data solution for SMB and Enterprise customers.”

- Karl Van den Bergh, VP Product and Alliances, Jaspersoft.

• Jaspersoft Corporate Overview (1.58MB)
• Jaspersoft Data Sheet (877KB)
• Jaspersoft & big data (836KB)

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All Karmasphere products are built on the Karmasphere Application Framework to unlock the power of Hadoop with unparalleled ease:

• Deliver dramatic productivity improvements to the big data job developer
• Make it easy for technical data analysts to discover value in their big data set
• Provide the framework for business intelligence analysts to drive valuable insights from big data

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:
By working together to integrate IBM's implementation of Apache Hadoop with Karmasphere products, there is a seamless out-of-the-box experience for data professionals ensuring application development and analysis on the IBM platform for big data is completed quickly and productively; increasing the ROI of enterprise big data projects.

"Up until now, current enterprise technologies were limited to handle the complexity of big data," said Gail Ennis, CEO of Karmasphere. "IBM is reinventing the data world by bringing both Hadoop and big data to mainstream business users. By doing so, the ecosystem is now able to move forward to help enterprises get started with a new class of software and services that IBM is now offering."

• Learn more about Karmasphere (994.8KB)
• Video (MOV, 39MB)
• Data sheet (660.9KB)
• Press release

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Kitenga provides industry’s first “big data” search & analytics platform with integrated information modeling & visualization capabilities - an entirely new kind of insight engine for today’s big data world.

• Kitenga ZettaVox combines proven next-generation technologies like Hadoop for scalability and performance, Lucene/SOLR search, Mahout machine learning, 3D information modeling, and advanced Natural Language Processing, in a fully integrated, configurable, cloud-enabled software platform that can be deployed quickly and cost effectively.
• ZettaVox is designed for non-programming professionals. It empowers them to efficiently create customized, domain-specific analytics ecosystems supporting massive scale ingestion and processing of information resources with the ease of drag-and-drop widgets.
• Kitenga’s solution is a radical improvement over traditional BI dashboards that support basic charting from static, transactional, structured data sources while ignoring the wealth of knowledge buried in mounds of unstructured information. Traditional analytics solutions based on databases inherently suffer from scalability limitations, are inflexible, offer an impoverished suite of analytical and visualization tools, and are outrageously expensive. Kitenga empowers organization to extract unprecedented levels of actionable insights from their information universe.

How we integrate with IBM and what value we add:

Kitenga ZettaVox ships with out-of-the-box integration with IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Enterprise Edition. This not only minimizes customer risk, time and effort wasted in cobbling together one-off solutions, but ZettaVox customers can now benefit from significant add-value functionality of the IBM platform. Enterprise customers can now enjoy the legendary customer support from IBM combined with the power and flexibility of open source Hadoop.

“We are excited to be a part of IBM’s Big Data ecosystem” said Anil Uberoi, CEO of Kitenga. “Customers can now chose best-in-class solutions to address their specific business needs. We believe that IBM’s leadership will further accelerate the adoption of Hadoop-based solutions in enterprises, globally.”

• Data sheet (642KB)
• Video (00:02:10)

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Lucid Imagination is the commercial company exclusively dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr open source enterprise search technology. It provides search solution development platforms built on the power of Lucene/Solr open source search via enterprise-grade subscriptions. The company’s LucidWorks Search Platform, "the UI for Big Data", makes the power of Solr/Lucene open source search more accessible to the broad range of application developers and slashes the learning curve for search solution development.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:
Lucene/Solr is already part of the Big Insights platform and is leveraged with Watson as well. LucidWorks, the commercial offering is adds significant advantages from an ease of use and development perspective, yet maintaining pure open source Lucene/Solr capabilities. Integration is done through our connector framework to IBM’s distribution of Apache Hadoop as well as other distributions supported by IBM.

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Someone can live or die depending on the correct and authentic medications being dispensed. Hospitals and medical professionals clearly agree leveraging RFID technology for better tracking of a drug’s expiration date, information about the drug administered, tracking and updating inventory levels, all performed with real-time visibility, would increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve patient safety.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:
Intelliguard® RFID Solutions for Critical Inventory.

The Intelliguard Medication Management System consists of three components:

• Pharmacy Reader: By reading multiple tags within a tote or container, the Intelliguard Pharmacy Reader makes receiving distributor shipments at the hospital pharmacy efficient and accurate by eliminating the need for item-level scanning or manual counting.
• Real-time inventory control is maintained as medication is distributed within the hospital to an Intelliguard Automated Dispensing Cabinet. The Automated Dispensing Cabinet increases nursing efficiency by eliminating manual counting and item-level barcode scanning and through access to ambient and refrigerated medications in one location.
• The Intelliguard Patient Bedside Reader assists with the compliance and verification necessary to eliminate medication errors through The Five Rights of Medication Safety: Right Patient, Right Drug, Right Dose, Right Route and Right Time.

“In order for track and trace, and ePedigree requirements to work effectively in the pharmaceutical supply chain, there must be a solution that ties all the players together -- from the pharmaceutical manufacturer to the patient -- that’s the IBM InfoSphere Traceability Server,” said Shariq Hussain, president and CEO of MEPS Real-Time, “We’re excited to be a IBM technology partner so we can deliver the Intelliguard® Medication Management System to our healthcare customers with track and trace capability required for recall, counterfeit and diversion protection as well as data visibility for all trading partners.”

• MEPS Brochure (PDF, 537.4KB)
• MEPS Corporate Fact Sheet (PDF, 256.8KB)
• Video (00:03:44)

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Palogix is a logistics and supply chain organization providing returnable container management solutions to manufacturing, agricultural, pharmaceutical, health-care, retail and consumer products distribution, and engineering organizations world-wide.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

Palogix, with a flexible approach supported by an enterprise-level track and trace software solution, advanced logistics, reporting and analytic capabilities powered by IBM’s Big Data Platform; provides quantifiable operational cost savings and increased supply chain efficiencies.

“Palogix supply chain solution, ATRAX II, powered by IBM’s Big Data Platform and Traceability Server, enables customers to track and trace their assets throughout the entire supply chain, with the ability to optimize and forecast asset segmentation, movement, risk, costs and variances, based upon multiple variables from desperate sources”, says Robert Liebesman, Palogix CEO.

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Platform Computing is the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software. For almost two decades, it has delivered distributed computing solutions to over 2000 customers, with over 5,000,000 CPUs under management.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

Platform MapReduce is Hadoop compatible product, delivering sophisticated scheduling and management capabilities to deliver an enterprise class deployment solution for Hadoop applications. It is certified to work with IBM General Parallel File System.(GPFS) providing applications using the data in GPFS to have greater scalability and performance.

“The integration of IBM GPFS and Platform MapReduce brings together the best of both worlds and we’re pleased to be working closely with IBM to provide added functionality to the GPFS that will save users precious time and costs when they need to access and analyze data from unstructured and structured sources,” said Tripp Purvis, Vice President Business Development, Platform Computing, “The combined capabilities of both technologies will open up greater opportunities for GPFS users to run their big data applications with an industry proven, best-of-breed MapReduce runtime engine.”

• Top 5 Challenges for Hadoop MapReduce in the Enterprise
• What is an Enterprise–class MapReduce Distributed Runtime Engine, and Why Use It?
• Architecture of an Enterprise–class MapReduce Distributed Runtime Engine

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RainStor provides Big Data management software. RainStor’s database enables the world’s largest companies to keep and access limitless amounts of data for as long as they want at the lowest cost. It features the highest level of compression on the market, together with high performance on-demand query and simplified management. RainStor runs natively on a variety of architectures and infrastructure including Hadoop. RainStor is a privately held company with offices in San Francisco, USA and Gloucester, UK. For more information, visit www.rainstor.com (link resides outside of ibm.com). Email us directly: info@rainstor.com

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

RainStor provides a specialized database which can solve data growth and retention problems with massive compression (40-1 or more on raw data), ultimate saving you millions in TCO. It can be deployed on any combination of IBM servers and storage including Hadoop at the lowest TCO. In contrast to OLTP databases (that allow updates) such as IBM DB2; or data warehouses (focused on analysis) repositories such as IBM Netezza, RainStor’s database is optimized for long-term retention. Ideal for relational structured and semi-structured data (e.g. Logs, Market tick data, Trades) it provides on demand access via standard SQL (ODBC/JDBC) or Hadoop MapReduce. RainStor lowers the total operating cost due to significantly reduced physical storage, and in many cases also improves the performance and access of big data sets across the enterprise.

The technical patents and features that make RainStor unique include:

• Extreme Ingestion – ability to load big data volumes (billions records/day, petabytes/month) (with or without Hadoop)
• Highest Compression On the Market – ability to de-dupe at the data value and pattern level, resulting in 40 to 1+ compression (97%+ reduction in size)
• Strict Compliance – ability to set flexible configurable expiry rules for the lifecycle of the data with guaranteed read-only immutability and audited access
• On Demand Query – ability to rapidly search and retrieve data using native SQL (as well as MapReduce when deployed on Hadoop) for seamless integration with existing systems and tools within the enterprise

Underpinned by unlimited scalability and zero admin, deployable on any combination of servers and storage, on premise or in the Cloud.

Select applicable use cases and solutions include:

• Machine-Generated data – Capture and retain data generated at massive rates at extreme volumes – examples include trades, tick data, market data (Financial Services), at 10x less cost than other technologies


• Data Warehouse Archiving – Move historical analysis data into RainStor from any data warehouse such as Netezza, Teradata, Microsoft PDW etc. freeing up the DW to perform current analysis, while RainStor continues to provide on demand access. Transfer data back into source DW at any time.

“RainStor complements IBM business intelligence and Big Data technologies by enabling data to be kept accessible on demand at the lowest possible cost. RainStor’s compression magnifies the efficiency and performance of IBM servers and storage, enabling customers to meet their growing Big Data challenges now and into the future.”

• Big Data Analytics on Hadoop Product Overview
• Announcement of Big Data Analytics on Hadoop Product: Jan 18 2012
• Infographic: Compression Tames the Cost of Running Big Data Analytics on Hadoop
• Analyst Whitepapers, Collateral, & Calculator Resources
• RainStor News Coverage
• Videos

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Retalon Inc. is a leading provider of predictive analytic solutions for supply chain, merchandising, and marketing operations. Retalon products range from task-oriented solutions to a common analytic platform, which provide tangible optimization and significant measurable benefits for retailers and distributors.

Retalon solutions are designed for optimal auto-replenishment, one-time allocations, promotional events, price and markdown optimization, micro-merchandizing, safety stock, optimal purchasing, OTB, planning and assortment.

Retalon customer base includes 90 recognized retailers and distributors.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

The Retalon system utilizes multiple IBM products. It runs on IBM’s WebSphere server and DB2 database.

InfoSphere BigInsights high efficiency in massive data processing fully support massive relational and non-relational data analysis. Working within this environment the Retalon system provides very accurate predictions for large retail organizations, since it accounts for all the factors impacting the business, including inventory levels, sales, prices, promotions, assortment and many, many more. Given the number of SKU/Location combinations and the number of permutations of these factors, the InfoSphere BigInsights, with comprehensive data analysis capabilities and excellent performance, is the best tool to achieve this.

“Retalon solutions provide tangible increases in GMROII for retail companies and distributors. Combined with IBM big data platform, the Retalon system integrates data from multiple sources, ranging from the internal ERP systems to social media to bring the optimization to the next level when all the decisions are made based on extremely accurate predictions.”

• Retalon website (link resides outside of ibm.com)
• A Second Change to Sell at Full Price (200KB)
• Retalon Dynamic Pricing (328KB)
• Retalon SoRetalon Solutions Portfolio lutions Portfolio (1.70MB)

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Rocks+ Big Data from StackIQ, combines the industry leading cluster management software (Rocks) with Hadoop for a complete, distributed, Big Data processing solution.

• Lets customer spin up large, fully configured Hadoop clusters, quickly and consistently from bare-metal up to the applications layer (including HDFS, MapReduce, ZooKeeper, etc)
• Enables multiple MapReduce instances to run over a single HDFS.
• Simplifies the management of large, connected Hadoop deployments.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

Rocks+ is now available with InfoSphere BigInsights. StackIQ seamlessly integrates InfoSphere BigInsights by leveraging Rocks’ modular framework for the rapid deployment of automatically configured software systems. Choose StackIQ Rocks+ Big Data and have your complete BigInsights cluster running in minutes.

“The foundation of any MapReduce application based on Hadoop is a robust, reliable, compute cluster, “ said Tim McIntire, President and Co-Founder of StackIQ. “StackIQ is pleased to be working with IBM to combine their industry leading business intelligence software with our highly developed cluster ecosystem.”

• StackIQ and big data website
• StackIQ Rocks+ Big Data Solution data sheet

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Tresata has developed the first Hadoop powered Big Data & Analytics Platform focused on Financial Services data.

Tresata’s platform is the only Hadoop solution architected from the ground up to:

1. Store & Index financial data
2. Process structured and unstructured financial data
3. Analyze the entire population (not just a sample) of data
4. Apply proprietary algorithms to model every individual unit

Tresata’s platform bundles proprietary data processing algorithms and produces massively scalable data products to address business problems in the Financial Services industry.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

Tresata has certified our analytical platform with IBM’s BigInsight hadoop distribution. For the very first time, it delivers out-of-the-box use of Hadoop in Banking.

It finally allows Banking institutions globally to use a Hadoop powered Big Data analytics engine to manage and analyze structured and unstructured data to solve massive business problems.

Abhishek Mehta, Founder Tresata, said – “We welcome IBM to the fast developing world of Big Data Analytics and are excited to partner with them to make the vision of a Smarter Planet a reality. By bringing to Financial Services, the biggest vertical market in the world, a Big Data Analytics capability that will help reboot the industry, is a big step in that direction.

A combination of IBM’s enterprise ready tools with Tresata’s industry leading platform offers a value proposition in Big Data that was not available before”.

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Xtremeinsights provides services and solutions which focus on elevating enterprise business analytics capabilities to new levels by leveraging Hadoop and related big data technologies with organizations existing information management platforms.

Xtremeinsights serves as a trusted advisor to both Fortune 500 firms as well as new entrants who embrace the power of big data and information capabilities for strategic advantage. Xtremeinsights has a background of success of enabling leading conventional information systems and combines this experience with leading competencies, methodologies and solutions experience with big data technologies.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:
Xtremeinsights plays advisory, solution architecture, and implementation roles across various information, analytics and data management technologies. With a depth and breadth of business domain, process and technology expertise, Xtremeinsights strengthens the IBM solution portfolio with a focus on, and a proven success track record with big data technologies, strategies and solutions.

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Zettaset enables massive data aggregation and analytics for the enterprise via Hadoop, in a solution that is scalable, resilient and secure. Zettaset provides true redundancy in a solution that is easy to deploy, and has a simple licensing model that leads to a lower total cost of ownership.

How we integrate with IBM and what value add we bring:

• Zettaset’s architecture supports BigInsights’ Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and tools, using ZooKeeper and Thrift to perform reporting and management. As Thrift supports most major programming and scripting languages and all Zettaset’s Thrift API’s are open
• Zettaset provides value in monitoring, provisioning, and management of the system as well as significantly lowering the cost of integration; allowing users to easily make Zettaset a part of their platforms, frameworks and User Interfaces (UI)
• Strong authentication using Kerberos, in conjunction with group and user level access control and data encryption, extends BigInsights’ LDAP authorization so that users can fully customize their security model to further protect the safety and availability of their data
• Zettaset’s administration console fully integrates with BigInsights’ Web console to allow easy administration and management of services, nodes, and jobs
• Failover of the NameNode as well as all other critical components in the system, such as Oozie, Hive and ZooKeeper, mitigates the risk of data loss, data access, and failure to schedule and coordinate jobs and query datasets

• Zettaset technical brief (386KB)

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