Dell Statistica Further Empowers Citizen Data Scientists With Collective Intelligence
October 04 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
- Integration with analytics
marketplaces enables users to leverage power of the global data
science community
- New user interface masks complexity
and simplifies workflows for non-technical analysts
- Latest release further enables edge
analytics by delivering workflows to any edge device or
gateway
Dell Software Group today announced the next major release of
its award-winning advanced analytics platform, Dell Statistica
13.2. The latest release of Statistica helps companies transform
their businesses and achieve new levels of success by embedding
analytics everywhere and empowering a wider community of users and
use cases. Key features include new collective intelligence
capabilities to enable native integration with open source and
application marketplaces, a new user interface designed to mask
complexity and simplify workflows for citizen data scientists, and
the ability to distribute data preparation and analytic workflows
to any edge device or gateway.
As advanced analytics gain increased traction as the primary
vehicle through which organizations drive innovation, predict
customer behavior, and optimize business and manufacturing
processes, Statistica continues to build momentum. Earlier this
year, Dell was positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Leaders"
quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics
Platforms (February 2016).1 More recently, Dresner Advisory
Services named Statistica an overall leader in its 2016 Industry
Excellence Awards. With release of version 13.2, Statistica
continues that momentum and further moves advanced analytics into
the mainstream by democratizing analytics for the masses.
Leveraging analytic marketplaces with collective
intelligence
The latest release of Statistica leverages the power of the
global analytics community through new collective intelligence
capabilities that enable users to connect directly with analytics
marketplaces, public datasets, and non-proprietary, standard
scripting languages.
To help address the global shortage of data scientists capable
of building analytical models, a growing number of analytics
experts are now sharing their models via online marketplaces and
platforms. With Statistica 13.2, technical and non-technical users
alike can now access via inbuilt nodes many of these pre-built
models and integrate these into their existing Statistica workflow.
This enables them to leverage a wider range of models without
having to code and built them manually, while doing so within the
validated and controlled framework Statistica provides. In addition
to Statistica’s already robust support for R, with the latest
release, users can now script in Python, C# and Visual Basic.
Online marketplaces accessible to Statistica 13.2 users include
Apervita, a leading marketplace for healthcare analytics;
Algorithmia, a fast-growing online analytics marketplace; and H20
Sparkling Water for Spark on Hadoop, an open source math and
machine learning platform that enables users to access public
datasets such as Amazon Public Data Sets. This compliments the
Azure ML node released in version 13.1, which enables users to push
analytics to the cloud, and adds significant machine learning, deep
learning, and big data capabilities to the platform.
In addition, users can now lock and protect models as propriety
IP, a capability developed in conjunction with Statistica’s OEM and
Partner network, thus enabling those groups to publish models out
to third parties themselves.
Masking complexity for non-technical users
With the majority of analytics initiatives now driven by the
citizen data scientist, Statistica 13.2 delivers a series of new
features specifically designed to simplify analytics for the
non-technical user, including a new citizen data scientist UI. This
purpose-built, designer-view interface completely masks the
complexity behind data preparation requirements and the analytic
workflows within which users work, enabling non-technical business
users to drive analytics initiatives without requiring them to code
or program. The new release also features the ability to export
Statistica objects so that non-technical users can edit them in
Excel before importing them back into Statistica.
This new complexity-masking functionality builds on the
streamlined data preparation tools and reusable workspace templates
introduced in version 13.1, and continues Statistica’s rapid
evolution from a solution ideal for statisticians and
mathematicians, to one accessible for all users across the
organization, including both traditional and citizen data
scientists.
Driving analytics directly to the edge
Building on the edge scoring functionality delivered in version
13.1, Statistica 13.2 now includes full edge analytics, giving
users the ability to distribute data preparation and analytic
workflows to any edge device or gateway. The new release features a
Rules Builder node that can be deployed directly on an edge device
or gateway, enabling users to perform data prep tasks, execute
models, and make conditional model execution and decisions directly
where the data lives. This edge analytics functionality eliminates
the heavy lifting involved with transporting data back to a central
repository, and enables customers to obtain and respond to insights
at the speed of business.
Availability
- Dell Statistica 13.2 is available now
worldwide
Supporting Quote:
John K. Thompson, general manager, Dell
Statistica
“With the citizen data scientist now the primary driving force
behind most advanced analytics initiatives, the value of an
advanced analytics solutions is in great part tied to its ability
to simplify complex processes and empower these non-technical users
to move projects forward. Statistica 13.2 was built with precisely
this customer need in mind. Whether it’s through our focus on
connected intelligence, the introduction of a citizen data
scientist UI, or the continued emphasis on edge analytics, Dell
Statistica continues to lead the push to democratize analytics and
make them accessible to an-ever growing community of interested
users.”
Supporting Resources:
- Download a complimentary copy of the
2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms
- Trial Dell Statistica for free
About Dell
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1 Source: Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics
Platforms,” February 2016
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