Australian Quantium to Leverage MapR Distribution Including Hadoop

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of distribution for Apache Hadoop, announced that Quantium Group Pty Ltd, a data analytics firm in Australia, has selected the MapR Distribution including Hadoop to perform analytics on data sets to generate business insights for their clients, including many of Australian companies.

Sydney-based Quantium  develops data-driven insights and ideas. It is a growing company offering services in customer analytics, technology and decision support, media and market activation, and data driven insights to many of Australia’s largest companies, including Woolworths, National Australia Bank and Foxtel.

“The core of our business rests on our ability to perform complex analytics on large data sets to derive business insights,” said Greg Schneider, director, Quantium. “Relative to other available Hadoop distributions, MapR is expected to provide higher level performance, more fine-grained control of data segregation, and better reliability.“

 MapR Solution
Quantium selected the MapR Distribution including Hadoop to improve its ability to perform analysis on large volumes of data without having to spend time restructuring the data. The company’s selection criteria included the ability to gain faster time to market at a reduced cost, improve analytic performance, enable real-time ad-hoc queries, and perform security management and audits.

Additional required capabilities included:

• Real-time analytical queries with low latency query response (usually under 50ms) to support live interactive systems.
• Automated large processing tasks to facilitate fast query execution and data retrieval in an interactive environment. This includes everything from large-scale processing of unstructured data to generating client reports for Quantium CheckOut, a tool developed to provide an understanding of shopper behavior as well as in-depth analysis of category, brand and product performance.
• Ad-hoc queries and analysis that facilitates both ad-hoc analysis for clients and experimentation leading to the development and innovation of new products.
  

“Quantium will deploy one of the largest and most powerful Hadoop clusters in Australia,” said Justin Bock, Australia country manager, MapR. “Fast data analytics is core to the Quantium solution and we are proud to provide the Hadoop foundation with the scale, real-time performance and reliability which will help their customers benefit from immediate, actionable data.“