Dec 22, 2024 | Updated: 11:35 AM EDT

Top Big Data Startups

Dec 17, 2013 06:15 PM EST

Wal-Mart has achieved competitive advantage by adopting Android applications and cost leadership strategy that are providing consumer goods at lower prices. Balancing big data with profitability is crucial to the success of a company. It is crucial to remain profitable in these areas.

Walmart Labs

AT&T and the growth of Global Gamification is driven by many factors such as the market's ability to optimize in consumer engagement. Companies like AT&T has been investing into innovation. AT&T had invested $3.8 million with Los Angeles-based startup research and technology institute GameDesk for its Aspire initiatives. The modern loyalty and gamification measures require an update to address the digital lives of customers and employees.

Cloudant

Cloudant is the distributed database as a service (DBaaS) built from the ground up to deliver fast-growing application data to the edge. For developers, a crash reporting feature for android apps is native since Android 2.2 (FroYo) but only available through the official Android Market (and with limited data) as stated on Cloudant’s blog. ACRA is a great help for Android developers. Cloudant is privately held and backed by top-tier investors including Avalon Ventures, Devonshire Investors, the private equity firm affiliated with Fidelity Investments, In-Q-Tel, Rackspace® Hosting, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, Toba Capital, and Y Combinator.

Premise Data

Premise Data is a technology company building a global network to track macroeconomic and human development trends in real time. Premise software and mobile infrastructure collects millions of discrete data points every day from thousands of local sources, enabling our clients, who are among the world's largest institutions, to understand and navigate unprecedented volatility in global inflation, industry competitive dynamics, and food security. The company is based in San Francisco with a presence in 30 countries, and are backed by some of the most forward-looking investors including Google Ventures, Harrison Metal, and Andreessen Horowitz.

Cloudera

Cloudera develops and distributes Hadoop. Cloudera is the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based software and services. Cloudera’s Android app, The Cloudera Sessions, coming to a city near you, are designed to help Android users identify their Big Data journey, and how to keep that journey going in a low-risk, productive way.The company has raised $141 million in venture capital this year.

How big data scales will challenge these new and existing approaches. True, risks can put the entire enterprise at risk. If the organization has a risk management framework in place it can help address the most critical threats. We can look at using sophisticated analytics to improve overall decision making in these areas.

The cloud will become a more standard platform. The market can be very demanding of the business model too. Timing is a crucial element. The company being able to sift through complex data sources and communicate critical data, how it delivers it new efficiencies and critical time saving information in real time. Advanced analytics technology helps to better leverage Big Data.

Text and Text Analytics tools for enterprises in social media sites such as Twitter are quite good. and proved to be effective for businesses Being active in mobile and social combined brings great collaboration in visualization for organizations. Data security and breaches are a known fact. Amongst all types of organizations to date. The majority of these attacks can be prevented by implementing basic security measures. There has to be faster adoption to learning how to deal with these issues and more aggressively.

Real Time Analytics