Precog provides cloud-based infrastructure to store, enrich, and analyze big data via API-oriented infrastructure that enables developers of web, desktop, and mobile applications to solve big data problems. Precog also lets customers use its next-generation visualization engine separately from its analytics DB.
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ReportGrid, a privately held company based in Boulder, Colo., has
today unveiled the Precog platform (/www.precog.io) that
enables developers to rapidly build big data applications without
dealing with low-level big data challenges. As part of this launch,
ReportGrid will be phasing out the ReportGrid name and has rebranded
the company as Precog.
The Precog platform
offers an end-to-end solution for programmatic big data analysis:
from capture and storage, to cleaning and enrichment, to deep analysis
designed to power intelligent, insightful features inside
applications. Precog can be used to power any application that needs
big data analytics, including business intelligence tools.
"Big data is hard to get right," explained Chief Executive Officer
John A. De Goes. "Developers need to learn Hadoop, Map Reduce, and a
host of related technologies, all fraught with complexity. Precog
offers a compelling alternative: Rather than dealing with the
difficulties and intricacies of those technologies, developers can
simply call our APIs and store their big data in our cloud
environment. We handle all the 'big data magic' needed to efficiently
store, process, and analyze big data, thereby delivering enormous
savings in time, cost, and maintenance. Precog releases developers
from the low- level details of their big data needs and let's them
focus on functionality -- it's a natural evolution from Hadoop and
other low-level technologies."
Data capture and storage is handled by PrecogDB, a shared-nothing,
columnar, multi-structured data store designed specifically for
high-end analytics, statistics, and predictive modeling. Precog's API
makes it easy to load PrecogDB with data from third-party sources,
including external APIs (Twitter, Facebook, SalesForce), CSV files,
websites, and transactional data stored in existing databases (SQL,
Hadoop, MongoDB).
Precog is releasing an open source distribution of PrecogDB later this
year. "We believe in open source and open standards -- all of our
engineers are major contributors to open source," De Goes said.
Precog is also releasing open source client libraries designed to make
it easier to use the Precog API.
The Precog platform is currently in private alpha, and moves to
private beta at the end of March, with public beta and wide launch
expected to follow in June and July.
For more information, visit www.precog.io and
www.reportgrid.com/charts/ .
See also
ReportGrid Launches Precog To Help You Turn Big Data Into Smarter Apps
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