Artificial intelligence and Internet of Things excite, but it’s still a big data world
In 2015, Hitachi Data Systems Corp. made a play in the big data game with the acquisition of Pentaho Corp. The merger brought together a first-class data integration and business analytics company using an open-source-based platform and added new functionality toHitachi Data Systemsto extend its presence in the market of big data, analytics, Internet of Things and machine learning.
“The Hitachi acquisition sets us up for the next big thing, which is IoT. And I’ve been hearing non-stop about machine learning — that’s the other component that is exciting for us,” saidDonna Prlich(pictured), senior vice president of product management, product marketing and solutions at Pentaho Corp.
John Furrier (@furrier), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, sat down with Prlich during the BigData SV event in San Jose, California, to talk about the value of big data. Today Prlich is being featured for our weekly Woman in Tech column. (* Disclosure below.)
While Pentaho remains a standalone company, it now can access Hitachi’s labs where data scientists are bringing value technology from the R&D perspective. “When you apply those kinds of use cases we’re solving, it’s just like being a kid in a candy store with technology,” Prlich said.
Currently, Pentaho is in the process of advancing itsmachine learning orchestrationcapabilities to provide the enterprise ease of use when building and deploying advanced analytics models.
The company touts that the orchestration will maximize efficiency and streamline four key areas: Data and feature engineering; model training, tuning and testing; deploy and operationalize models; and update models regularly.
“It’s less about building models, [more about] enabling the data scientists and data preparers to leverage intellectual properties that companies have in those models they’ve built to transform their businesses,” Prlich commented.
Although the new technology is impressive, Prlich feels that it is still a big data world. She noted that it is the data that is monetizable, and that is why Pentaho is always focused on data in the enterprise.
