PLATFORA: Makes Hadoop amazing

Platfora is the world’s first in-memory business intelligence platform for Hadoop. Our software works with Hadoop and transforms it from infrastructure into a visually stunning and remarkably powerful business analytics platform.

This innovative technology provides complete agility with raw data, essentially eliminating the need for a data warehouse or ETL software.

THIS IS PLATFORA

Platfora transforms Apache Hadoop™ from batch engine into a subsecond-interactive, exploratory business intelligence and analytics platform designed for business analysts. This has never been done before, and getting there involves far more than putting a pretty user interface on top of Hadoop.

UNBOUNDED EXPLORATORY BI

Platfora is a fully featured, enterprise-class business intelligence application. Built on HTML5, it is accessible anywhere and there are no per-user licensing limits. Collaboration and sharing is built in. With Platfora, analysts can drill into detail or dimensions only available in raw data without the IT friction and complexity of traditional solutions.

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IN-MEMORY LENSES

Powered by Fractal Cache™ technology, Platfora automatically transforms massive datasets into highly responsive lenses. The high-performance query engine makes access to big data fast and scales-out to terabytes of in-memory data. Lenses are refined and updated based on the needs of the end-user.

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HADOOP DATA REFINERY

Platfora transforms Apache Hadoop into a work engine. Adaptive Job Synthesis™ synthesizes specialized MapReduce jobs that automatically extract detail, perform calculations and downstream analysis, building lenses efficiently and on demand. All datasets in Hadoop are cataloged and can be securely browsed by any Platfora user.

 

HOW PLATFORA IS DIFFERENT THAN THE OTHER APPROACHES

DIRECT HADOOP OR HIVE

Platfora does not require an expert to return straightforward results. Direct Hadoop requires complex MapReduce programs or Hive queries. Platfora’s visual interface is designed for business users and IT data administrators.

In Hadoop or Hive, each query executes an inefficient and slow batch job from scratch. Platfora’s Fractal Cache technology makes data interactive and fast.

 

DATA WAREHOUSE + HADOOP

Unlike a data warehouse, Platfora’s lenses are not limited by size or fixed schema.

Business users can make schema changes, integrate new data sets, all without IT intervention

 

TRADITIONAL BI + CONNECTOR TO HADOOP

Connectors fail with large data volumes as they pull chunks of data to the desktop. In practice users need to build a data warehouse.

Platfora is 100% HTML5 and natively designed for Hadoop and big data.

 

1ST GENERATION SPREADSHEET UIS FORHADOOP

These tools are batch Hadoop job builders with no interactive engine

Platfora seamlessly connects business users to data through visual interactions, unlike a spreadsheet