11th Dec 2013 07:00
For Immediate Release | 11 December 2013
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Fusionex International plc
("Fusionex", "the Company" or "the Group")
Fusionex Launches Big Data Analytics Solution GIANT
Strategic partnership signed with Cloudera and Hortonworks
Fusionex (LSE: FXI), an award-winning and market leading international provider of enterprise software specialising in Analytics and Big Data solutions, is pleased to announce that GIANT, the Company's Big Data Analytics software solution, has been successfully launched today.
GIANT sets a new benchmark in functionality and access to Big Data Analytics and sits alongside Fusionex's suite of industry leading enterprise software solutions. GIANT has been in test phase with a number of customers during 2013 and is now available for full scale deployment.
In conjunction with the commercial launch of GIANT, Fusionex has entered into a strategic partnership with two of the most established Big Data distribution platform providers, Cloudera and Hortonworks, providing a significant route to market. Cloudera and Hortonworks provide Hadoop-distribution platforms, while GIANT offers unique and powerful Big Data Analytics capabilities, together creating a complete enterprise Big Data offering for organisations.
Key features of GIANT include:
· A simple, user friendly interface which bridges the gap between business and technology through advanced visualisation and simple 'drag & drop' and 'point & click' options instead of coding requirements
· With GIANT, users are shielded from programming complexities - No ETL or Map Reduce, Pig, Hive Programming
· GIANT processes and seamlessly integrates data from a multitude of sources including structured, semi-structured and unstructured data
· GIANT is hardware agnostic and can be deployed to either HP, DELL or IBM servers
· GIANT can be deployed on premise, in the 'Cloud', or even used in a hybrid environment
· Leverage existing platforms, such as open source Apache Hadoop, while utilising GIANT's Big Data Analytics and processing capabilities.
· GIANT supports multiple devices and form factors, and therefore results and visualisation can also be rendered and accessed from virtually any device, e.g. iPhone, Android, Tablet, PC, laptop etc.
Ivan Teh, Fusionex Managing Director commented:
"The launch of Fusionex GIANT is a significant strategic catalyst for our business and is an important step forward to establishing our Big Data Analytics ecosystem. We believe that GIANT is a truly disruptive and innovative product that will revolutionise the way many organisations tackle the challenges of Big Data.
It is our view that simplifying Big Data, in a 'cost-optimised' and intuitive way, is central to helping organisations derive true business value. We are excited about the prospects of seeing GIANT being deployed globally and remain confident that our Big Data Analytics expertise will continue to underpin the Company's strategic growth."
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Ivan Teh, Chief Executive Officer Yuen Choong Lai, Chief Financial Officer | Through Buchanan
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