Syncsort is stepping up its game in Big Data, releasing an updated version of its data migration software that makes it easier for large organizations to extract information from legacy silos into platforms like Hadoop.

The idea behind its DMX-h platform is to make it easier for organizations to adopt Hadoop. The service is pegged as an “enterprise-grade data integration engine” that enables customers to tap into vast troves of unstructured information without the large upfront capital investments and steep ongoing maintenance costs associated with in-house analytics clusters. It also includes capabilities for graphically designing MapReduce jobs and an extensive pre-prepared library of data workflows.

The new release of DMX-h offers support for multiple compute frameworks, including MapReduce, Apache Spark and Apache Tez, and comes with a new architectural design that aims to “future-proof” the process of collecting, blending, transforming, and distributing data, and making it compatible with Hadoop. Crucial to this is a new “Intelligent Execution Layer” that allows for the visual design of “data transformations” that can be run across Hadoop, Linux, Windows, or Unix, on premise or in the cloud. The “Intelligent Execution Layer” uses special algorithms to identify the most suitable execution path to easily process jobs based on the available compute frameworks and the data set’s characteristics.

“This new release makes it extremely easy to shift sophisticated data flows to Hadoop and to create new data transformations, taking advantage of the Hadoop -powered compute paradigms as they evolve,” said Tendu Yogurtcu, General Manager of Syncsort’s Big Data business.

One company that’s already doing so is the credit reporting agency Experian, which uses DMX-h to feed ever more data into its analytics solutions in. “The flexibility of DMX-h has allowed us to move processes from months to hours, opening time up for the lead developers to research additional effective uses of our Hadoop environment, including moving additional products onto Hadoop,” said Tom Thomas, IT senior director for Consumer Information Services at Experian.

The new release of DMX-h will be generally available later this month.

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