'We want people to download it and start building a community around it,' Thomas said. Tuesday the company launched Arcadia Instant, a free download of the company's front-end data visualization tool for Windows and Macintosh computers. The Arcadia platform uses Hadoop as an operating system, allowing it to run directly on Hadoop servers and providing access to data stored in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). 'We see this as an opportunity to reinvent how data visualization and business intelligence is done,' said Sushil Thomas, Arcadia co-founder and CEO, in an interview with CRN.

In a recent study by research firm Gartner of Hadoop adoption, 57 percent of survey respondents said that skills gap was a hurdle to Hadoop adoption and use.Īrcadia is developing a unified front-end visual analytics tool and business intelligence platform that the company said will overcome those hurdles. But the business analytics tools in use at most companies are unable to directly access that data - IT must first clean, integrate and format the data, then move it to another database or data warehouse system to make it available for everyday business workers.Īnd the IT expertise needed to do that work is in short supply, given Hadoop's complexity. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company also revealed that it has received $11.5 million in Series A funding, money the company said it will use to fuel its product development efforts and double the size of its sales and marketing teams by the end of the year.Īn increasing number of businesses are implementing Hadoop systems, using them to collect huge volumes of disparate data from multiple sources. Arcadia Data, a big data startup that's developing visual analytics software that can directly access data stored in Hadoop clusters, exited stealth mode Tuesday with its first product release.

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