Cloud management vendor Accelerite is getting into the big data business with the release today of a significantly enhanced version of what it calls an “end-to-end, self-service” analytics platform that enables data preparation, online analytics processing, visualization and collaboration to be done from a single interface.

ShareInsights 2.0 can prepare and query millions of rows and terabytes of data in minutes, the company said. The software runs natively atop any Hadoop cluster and leverages existing Apache Spark instances for applications such as machine learning and predictive analytics.

The software comes with more than 50 connectors for connecting to other data sources and more than 100 analytical widgets covering tasks ranging from simple aggregation to machine learning, said Mukund Deshpande, general manager of analytics at Accelerite.

“Where we shine is where the user knows the data and the problem but doesn’t have the tools,” he said. “We allow you to understand the schema, then blend data sets to create new data sets or create a powerful visualization dashboard that’s fully interactive with drill-down capabilities.”

Accelerite is the product division of Persistent Systems Ltd., a Pune, India-based technology services company of which Deshpande is founder and chief executive. The company has grown largely by acquisition, most notably the purchase of Citrix Systems Inc.’s cloud orchestration and management business in early 2016.

With ShareInsights, it’s competing with companies such as Alteryx Inc. and AtScale Inc., which seek to simplify the growing complexity of finding and transforming data across an enterprise. The earlier version of the product was principally a collaborative business intelligence tool, the company said. Version 2.0 is oriented toward more serious data analysis.

ShareInsights captures the data preparation, integration, visualization and collaboration requirements of a task in a single configuration file that works with multiple code generators. “This keeps us above changes in your architecture,” Deshpande said.

A self-service data discovery feature enables drag-and-drop access to source data on the native cluster, the company said. Intelligent joins and automatic merges make it possible to connect data sets from various sources. In addition to sporting its own visualization interface, ShareInsights also supports other tools such as Tableau Inc.’s Tableau.

An integrated function that the company calls Insight2Action enables custom actions to be programmed that perform tasks ranging from sending a text to initiating full enterprise workflows when specified conditions are met.

ShareInsights is available immediately. Pricing wasn’t specified, but Deshpane said it’s based on the number of users rather than data volume or cluster size. Users can license just the dashboard functionality or the full set of preparation and analytical tools on either a perpetual or subscription basis.

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