At its annual Worldwide Users’ Conference in Las Vegas last week, the machine data analytics company Splunk continues to enhance its flagship machine data search engine so it can be used by business analysts and managers. The company advanced its portfolio of products including a new version 6.0 of its enterprise edition cloud service and adding more business intelligence capabilities to its namesake engine

Splunk Cloud service is now powered by Amazon Web services and includes access to Splunk Enterprise apps, APIs, alerting, and role-based access controls. With an enhanced user experience, simple management of enterprise deployments, and a rich developer environment, Splunk Enterprise 6 gives technical users the ability to define the meaningful relationships in the underlying data, enabling business users and analysts to easily manipulate and visualize data in a simple drag-and-drop interface.

From Fragile to Agile

Splunk has captured a large market on analyzing log analysis and the company demonstrated its transition beyond machine log data at the conference. The Splunk Enterprise 6 product is one such product where Splunk is building out applications to run on tops of its platform.

Splunk is also opening up its DevOps platforms to outside developers with product launches, acquisitions, and partnership announcements. Most recently, Splunk has teamed up with Cloudera to tackle the regulated sector of government agencies, as well as Tableau for extended data visualization tools.

The company is approaching the Business Intelligence sector with enterprise-grade, cloud-ready analytics to seize an opportunity to democratize data. The big data company recently released software developer kits to GA and three new SDKs–for C#, PHP and Ruby–providing developers new tools to build analytics applications on top of Splunk’s machine data indexing platform.

Elaborating on the strategy of SDKs, Markus Zirn, VP of Product & Solutions Management at Splunk said Splunk SDKs is trying to encourage third-party developers to build and sell apps on the Splunk app market.

“We’re delivering solutions to different types of segments: security, IT, etc, so we need content to turn this horizontal platform into a specific solution for our customers. We need the best market place where they can find great content. It’s all about the apps,” he added.

Integrating Splunk into your Applications

In a DevOps culture, companies that have a fully responsive development process enable their company to release software more frequently, thus making their business more agile.

Karl May, Co-Founder and CEO of Vello Systems, discussed the company’s unique take on DevOps that turn out to be the selling point of their products. He said his company’s DevOps members are really trying to assemble solutions based on a variety of open standard components, which they will then customize for their applications. May said if companies learn from their applications environment, they can make better business decision about how the infrastructure responds to apps. Vello’s FarSight tool, a solution that analyzes data from the network, compute sources from the apps and based on Splunk technology can automatically remediate problems.

Chulhyun Cho, e-commerce development team leader, CJ O Shopping, said pivot powered Splunk Enterprise 6 will makes it incredibly easy for developers to build dynamic dashboards and fluid visualizations in addition to build to build insightful visualizations. The data model and pivot enable Splunk experts to create views of data that business users can easily interact with and analyze.

The web framework in Splunk Enterprise 6 makes it much faster for developers to build custom Splunk modules and applications. The web framework lets developers use existing skills to quickly plan and develop Splunk apps in JavaScript and Django, all without having to learn any new concepts.