Predictive analytics leader RapidMiner announced that it has acquired Radoop, a leading big data analytics solution for Hadoop. Radoop extends RapidMiner’s data analysis capabilities and together these solutions provide one of the first enterprise-ready, commercially supported and full-featured predictive analytics suites running in Hadoop. Through their existing partnership Radoop is already fully integrated into RapidMiner’s enterprise-ready Studio and Server product lines.
RapidMiner enables customers to create a data-analytics workflow and grab data from a variety of sources without scripting using built-in connectors, then process that data to see patterns that might require action. It then offers a more detailed view to see possible solutions to issues that arise. Radoop enhances RapidMiner’s data analysis capabilities by providing key extensions for editing and running ETL, data analytics and machine learning processes in a Hadoop environment.
In addition to easily integrating with any Hadoop cluster, the acquisition of Radoop further strengthens RapidMiner’s role in the Hadoop ecosystem by bringing key partnerships with Cloudera and Hortonworks, two of the most popular Hadoop platforms, as well adding 20 new client companies, including Schneider Electric, Prezi, Ustream and Fractal Analytics. Radoop 2.0, released in April 2014, includes more than 50 Hadoop operators, support for YARN (the new resource management layer for Hadoop 2.0), the latest Cloudera, Hortonworks and DataStax distributions, and integration with Hadoop technologies, including MapReduce, Hive, Impala, Mahout and Pig.
“The combination of RapidMiner and Radoop uniquely positions us to take advantage of the synergies that exist between advanced analytics and Hadoop. With 38,000 production deployments and 250,000 active users, RapidMiner’s advanced analytics platform has seen phenomenal adoption across an ever-growing number of organizations. With the addition of Radoop, business and IT organizations can now fully leverage the world’s most comprehensive predictive analytics suite in a platform that costs far less than proprietary technologies, delivers greater functionality, and is easier to deploy and manage” - said Ingo Mierswa, co-founder and CEO of RapidMiner.
RapidMiner is a recognized leader in advanced and predictive analytics. The company was positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the first “Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms”, published February 19, 2014.
RapidMiner will immediately begin selling Radoop. With the acquisition, Radoop will become a wholly owned subsidiary of RapidMiner and will become the company’s big data division. RapidMiner will retain Radoop employees and capitalize on their know-how, while investing to accelerate the global expansion of the newly formed division. Radoop founder and technology luminary Zoltán Prekopcsák will become vice president of big data.
