- Fusionex and GIANT Given the Thumbs Up by the Biggest Names
in the Industry
LONDON, Dec. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fusionex (LSE:
FXI), an award-winning and market leading international provider of
enterprise software specialising in Analytics and Big Data
solutions, announced today the official launch of its Big Data
Analytics software (GIANT), the first Big Data Analytics software
of its level of comprehensiveness in Asia.
Through GIANT, all processing and integration of data sources
will be done with high performance, speed, and agility yet
displayed in a user-friendly, intuitive and interactive way. The
driving principles behind the creation of GIANT is to shield
end-users from the complexities surrounding Big Data, low-level
plumbing, hard-core Apache Hadoop and MapReduce programming, thus
empowering end-users with the much needed insight from Big Data to
run their business without being burdened by in depth programming
language and technological complexities. Fusionex emphasises on the
need for 'simplicity' and 'efficiency' in helping
organisations tame the Big Data challenge.
To cement GIANT's ability to carry out the requisite highly
scalable / high speed processing tasks to handle vast amounts of
structured, semi-structured and unstructured data in a
user-friendly manner, Fusionex also established strategic
partnerships with two of the most established Hadoop distribution
(distro) platforms providers in the world, namely Cloudera and
Hortonworks. These strong partnerships are complementary and
synergistic in nature; both Cloudera and Hortonworks are reputed
for their world class distros, while Fusionex GIANT provides the
last-mile solution (business solution) to organisations via Big
Data Analytics.
With this, not only are end-users and organisations provided
with attractive options on platforms, but these platforms also
enhance GIANT's reach to a wider audience as well as increases
GIANT's scalability and processing capabilities, leveraging on the
world's best Apache Hadoop-powered platforms.
Flexibility and Ease-of-Use ('Simplicity') at the heart of
Fusionex GIANT
GIANT is poised to be the leading Big Data Analytics software
which affords end-users the flexibility and more importantly, the
choice of deploying GIANT depending on their preferred environment,
be it an on-premise approach, cloud, hybrid (i.e. combination of
on-premise and cloud), parallel processing, or even in-memory
processing capabilities, yielding optimised performance for the
end-user. Furthermore, all analysis, results and advanced
visualisation can be linked and viewed seamlessly via virtually any
form factor and device, i.e. PCs, laptops, smartphones, tablets
etc., a key plus point for users looking for a solution which
addresses the need for mobility.
At the same time, the agnostic nature of GIANT's solution is
such that the requisite processing and data crunching is capable of
taking place from practically any type of server including Dell,
HP, IBM etc., thus resulting in lower investments.
GIANT is also arguably one of the most comprehensive Big Data
Analytics product in the market, where organisations can leverage
on a powerful yet easy-to-use Fusionex GIANT workspace to have an
integrated end-to-end, wizard-driven, intuitive experience.
It is able to connect to virtually any well-known industry
standard data source (i.e. structured, semi-structured and
unstructured / complex), and processes the data at high speed to
render interactive advanced data visualisations, results and
insights. End-users using GIANT will be able to view the trends,
behavioural patterns, information and gain powerful insights
through the mined data, thus transforming all data within an
organisation into useful information in a timely manner, with most,
if not all complexity of Big Data hard-core technologies shielded
from them. Even non-IT experts and end users alike will be able to
use GIANT conveniently to uncover useful business insights from the
data. Thus, business users will find Fusionex GIANT very
easy-to-use and more 'humanised'. Fusionex GIANT handles data
management and integration seamlessly and offers descriptive and
diagnostic analytics, leveraging 'R' to offer predictive and
analytic capabilities.
Another unique differentiator that Fusionex GIANT offers is that
its engine facilitates a 'Connect & Collect' activity over and
above the standard SPA (Store, Process, Access) for Big Data. With
Fusionex GIANT, users will be able to take advantage of this
without the need to learn and develop Hadoop capabilities and other
Big Data related technologies.
Prospects in the Big Data Market
Based on Wikibon forecasts, the Big Data market is on the verge
of a rapid growth spurt that will see it top the $50 billion mark worldwide within the next five
years. Wikibon also views that increased interest in and awareness
of the power of Big Data and related analytic capabilities to gain
competitive advantage and to improve operational efficiencies,
coupled with developments in the technologies and services that
make Big Data a practical reality, will result in a super-charged
CAGR of 58% between now and 2016.
"Big Data is one of the four significant forces of change in the
ICT market. The insights available to organisations able to
properly analyse and leverage this offer the potential for real
competitive differentiation," commented Craig Stires, IDC Analyst. "Big Data and
analytics are a critical component of a successful solution, and
companies that work across industry and technology domains, like
Fusionex, offer important capabilities to organisations looking to
accelerate delivery of their Big Data and analytics
initiatives."
"Fusionex is an outstanding partner of Microsoft, and we're
excited that they've taken the next step forward by being a part of
our Big Data partner programme. Big Data is an incredibly hot topic
in the industry right now. It is our hope that Fusionex will be
able to implement this [Big Data] new technology in with our joint
customers and drive significant customer success," said
Bob Baker, Director, Microsoft
Corp.
"The launch of Fusionex GIANT is a catalyst, a crucial step
forward for Fusionex that is part of our roadmap to evangelise how
people and organisations use Big Data," said Ivan Teh, Fusionex Managing Director. "We
believe that GIANT is a breakthrough, a truly disruptive,
innovative and revolutionary product that will help change the way
we tame the Big Data challenge. It is our view that 'simplifying',
'humanising' and 'making sense' of Big Data, in a cost-optimised
and commercially feasible way, will go a long way in helping
organisations derive true business value and achieve their goals.
At Fusionex, we constantly challenge ourselves to provide our
customers with the best products of the highest quality. With
Fusionex GIANT, virtually anyone with minimal training would be
able to connect to the designated data sources and derive
meaningful and valuable business insight from such data anytime,
anyhow, anywhere and in any form. We are excited about the
prospects of seeing GIANT being used across the globe and we are
confident that this will pave the way for further Big Data
announcements that we intend to make surrounding this exciting
product."
Availability
GIANT is available immediately. For more information, please
contact Fusionex at info@adv-fusionex.com. Fusionex will release
GIANT updates periodically to all users.
About Fusionex
Fusionex (LSE: FXI) is a multi-award winning provider of
enterprise business software through its core transactional engine
(CTE) and business intelligence (BI) & Analytics products,
notably in relation to addressing the Big Data challenge. Committed
to its clients' success, Fusionex helps its clients manage and
derive value from their data. Fusionex's products and solutions are
ideal for companies seeking superior level yet user-friendly
solutions including business intelligence (BI) and Analytics, data
management & large databases (Big Data & Cloud based
solutions), enterprise mobile solutions, CPM as well as core
transactional solutions.
For further information, please visit
www.fusionex-international.com.
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