Hadoop is maturing rapidly in the enterprise, with a new survey sponsored by AtScale Inc. revealing almost half of all organizations which have deployed between 10 and 500 plus nodes are realizing “tangible value” from their deployments.

But getting Hadoop up and running isn’t easy, as Gartner Inc.’s 2015 Hadoop Adoption Study noted. One of the difficulties in implementing Hadoop is the scarcity of suitably qualified talent that knows how to work with the platform. Now, a company called Arcadia Data Inc., which emerged from stealth last June, is hoping to solve Hadoop’s manpower problem. It’s just rolled out Arcadia Enterprise, a visual analytics and business intelligence platform that runs natively in Hadoop.

Arcadia Enterprise is a solution that aims to collapse the legacy enterprise data management stack, delivering a simplified platform for business intelligence and data visualization. The platform runs on a “self-learning architecture” that’s native to Hadoop, and is able to autoscale thousands of queries simultaneously.

Designed with ease of use in mind, the platform offers a visual interface that lets uses explorer and perform semantic modeling on their Big Data. It also features ‘drag-and-drop’ access to behavior-based segmentation, granular path analysis, flow and funnel algorithms, and dimension/measure corrections via on-cluster execution.

“For three years, we’ve been evaluating the market for a BI product with an architectural signature which can leverage the power that you have in the Hadoop cluster,” Terry McFadden, Associate Director, Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble, said in a statement. “Other tools in the BI and analytics space, many predating Hadoop, require that data be pulled out of Hadoop first. Arcadia Enterprise is the first product we found that provides truly on-cluster Hadoop BI in the way we were seeking. Its execution model and user self-service approach deliver performance at Hadoop scale, and lets us develop our analytics quickly.”

Sushil Thomas, CEO at Arcadia Data, said Big Data is rapidly becoming the heartbeat of many businesses, but one of the problems is people are held back by BlackBerry-era business intelligence and visualization technologies. He explained that organizations are often left wanting because most Big Data solutions are built atop of archaic business intelligence platforms constrained by limited functionality and scalability.

“Arcadia Data set out to break through the old stack to give both business users and IT a new Hadoop-native approach that multiplies big data ROI and delivers new analytics at scale,” Thomas enthused.

The launch of Arcadia Enterprise comes after Arcadia Data secured $11.5 million in a series A funding round last June. At the time, it also launched Arcadia Instant, a free, lightweight tool that offers the visual analytics capabilities of Arcadia Enterprise.

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