Week 9 of the Big50 features 5 hot e-commerce startups. These days, pretty much all commerce has some element of “e” attached to it, whether online or off. According to a report by eMarketer, the giant in this space, Amazon, will capture more than 40% of the e-commerce market by the end of this year….
Treasure Data What they do: Provide a cloud-based platform that combines Big Data, machine learning, and digital marketing. Problem they solve: According to Treasure Data, if your company is not making decisions based on “all of your data and the accurate interpretation of it, your business is doomed to fail.” Okay, that’s a bit extreme,…
Tamr What they do: Provide a data unification platform. Problem they solve: Enterprise data resides in disparate, siloed databases. As a result, much data never even gets ingested into data analytics programs. According to Tamr, self-service data-preparation tools “hit a brick wall when dirty data from too many silos (10 or more) enter the workflow,”…
Alpine Data What they do: Alpine Data helps companies solve business problems through analytics and machine learning. According to the startup, “Unlike other platforms that focus primarily on algorithms, Alpine combines machine learning with operationalization, collaboration, and governance.” Problem they solve: Data analytics tools increasingly drive business decisions. Well, at least in theory. The reality…
Arcadia Data What they do: Develop visual analytics software. Problem they solve: “Every critical business problem is becoming a Big Data problem, but today’s organizations are hamstrung by existing Business Intelligence (BI) and data visualization tools,” Steve Wooledge, Arcadia Data’s VP of Marketing, argues. BI cannot solve complex Big Data problems, like the connected car…
Alooma What they do: Provide cloud-based data pipeline services. Problem they solve: Enterprises in virtually every industry are attempting to use business intelligence platforms to gain a competitive edge. However, the data sources that must be ingested by these applications and data warehouses are often incompatible. Standardizing and moving this data to data warehouses, especially…
Week 8 of the Big50 features 5 hot Big Data startups. Big Data is one of those tricky tech spaces. The potential payoffs are enormous, but the hype surrounding the space can harden even the most naïve trend spotters. We saw the same thing – for years – with last week’s trend: cloud. However, look…
ZeroStack What they do: Provides a “self-driving private cloud that allows enterprises to build, test, stage, deploy, and operate modern software applications.” ZeroStack consolidates modern software developer tooling and cloud operations services (DevOps) onto one unified cloud offering. Problem they solve: According to ZeroStack, software development teams in a DevOps lifecycle don’t have consistent and…
Zadara Storage What they do: Provide enterprise Storage-as-a-Service. Problem they solve: As cloud computing overtakes the enterprise, it’s also changing how internal resources are deployed. IT managers want to make their data centers more like the cloud – highly elastic, cost efficient, and readily scaled up and down. Futher, they’d prefer to be able to…
Swiftype What they do: Provide cloud-based search tools. Problem they solve: For the typical enterprise, search is about a lot more than finding info on the Web. “With the rise of the cloud services, you’d be hard-pressed to find a company that doesn’t leverage cloud-based platforms to store company documents, assets, and data,” a Swiftype…