From Cloudera, Solutions Gallery Online Marketplace for Machine Learning and Analytics Solutions

Cloudera, Inc. expanded its Connect Partner Program with Solutions Gallery, the addition of Partner Impact Awards, and enhancements to the Connect Channel Program.

With these expanded offerings, the Connect Partner Program is better positioned to help customers and partners utilize their current investments as well as to support building the next generation analytics platforms for data intensive workloads such as AI and machine learning.

Solutions Gallery
The Solutions Gallery augments the company’s partner ecosystem that includes more than 2,800 partners, with a storefront of more than 100 solutions. Both the firm and partners offer apps and solutions that align with the key business value drivers customers care about most: 1) Driving customer insights; 2) Improving product and services efficiencies; 3) Lowering business risk; and 4) Modernizing their architecture.

Additionally, the Solutions Gallery will showcase proof points of the joint efforts between the company and Connect partners across a multitude of horizontal and vertical business use cases.

“We’ve put a great deal of thought and work into these program additions and they underscore Cloudera’s commitment to its partner ecosystem, which expanded by 712 partners, or 33%, in 2016,” said Vishal Rao, SVP, field operations, Cloudera. “Customers are the ultimate and most important beneficiaries of the Cloudera Connect Partner Program, and we encourage our partners to submit for the Cloudera Partner Impact Awards. For those who haven’t yet joined, today there is even more reason to.“

Partner Impact Awards
To better appreciate and honor its partners, the company launched the Partner Impact Awards, which will consist of two categories: best solutions and business excellence.

Best solutions – These awards will recognize firm’s partners worldwide that create the most innovative solutions directly aligning with the top business value drivers:

Business excellence – These awards will recognize both locally and globally the partners that achieve the highest impact in delivering business results.

Partner Impact Awards will open for submission on May 1st, 2017 and the inaugural award ceremony will be held at the Connect Partner Summit at Strata+Hadoop World in New York, NY, in September 2017.

Finally, the company also has enriched its existing partner program with substantial enhancements to its channel partner program, which will offer more ways for Connect partners to work with the firm.

The enhanced Partner Program will include added benefits for channel partners:

Accelerate skills development through the company’s training, bootcamp, and certification
Drive demand and pipeline generation through joint go-to-market planning and execution
Increase profitability through service delivery kits and accelerators

“This is an excellent resource for organizations on their big data journey to quickly see solutions that fit their business needs. Customers interested in scalable visual analytic solutions can see Arcadia Data in action for cybersecurity and connected devices on Cloudera’s Solutions Gallery,” said Steve Wooledge, VP marketing, Arcadia Data, Inc.

“Cloudera and CenturyLink together help make it easy for organizations to start on data projects, such as advanced analytics and machine learning. By taking care of many aspects of implementing and maintaining a modernized data platform we help customers to gain business insights and ROI quickly,” said Andrew Clyne, chief data officer, CenturyLink, Inc.

“Big data users need to focus in on the specific slices of the original diverse data sources which are useful for answering specific business questions without losing sight of the bigger picture. Qlik is about building these specific apps downstream from the big data system. With our participation in Cloudera’s Solutions Gallery, we are better positioned than ever to enable our customers across industries like banking and finance, healthcare, telecommunications, and retail to continue discovering business value from their data, regardless of the variety or volume,” said Mike Foster, VP, technology alliances, QlikTech International AB. .
“There is an amazing variety of solutions available in the big data space, but identifying what best meets your needs can be daunting. We are pleased to see Cloudera organize and display the various ways that you can leverage Apache Hadoop with key partners like StreamSets, which in turn means our customers can make better decisions from their data,” said Rick Bilodeau, VP marketing, StreamSets, Inc.

“The launch of Cloudera’s Solutions Gallery provides a much needed one-stop-shop for customers to discover cutting edge solutions built and certified on Cloudera. Our customers are looking for Cloudera certification as a fundamental prerequisite for considering our solutions for their needs. Being featured on Cloudera’s Solutions Gallery provides our solutions the visibility and credibility we need to successfully sell our solutions in this competitive market. Two of our most sought-after solutions, namely, the TCS Sensor Data Analytics Framework and the TCS Active Archive solution are available today on the Solutions Gallery,” said Dr. SatyaRamaswamy, VP and global head, TCS digital enterprise, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

“Cloudera’s new Solutions Gallery provides a variety of partner-led solutions that really have impact in the big data market. Zoomdata has been working closely with Cloudera to deliver a new class of Customer Insight Solutions and we are highlighting in the Solutions Gallery, which will provide a deeper understanding of how they deliver real business value to our end customers,” said Nick Halsey, CMO, Zoomdata, Inc.