OpenBI strengthens Hadoop service offerings through strategic partnership with Hortonworks.
Chicago, June 26, 2012 – OpenBI, LLC, a leading professional services firm specializing in big data, analytics and business intelligence solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Hortonworks, becoming an authorized Hortonworks Systems Integrator Partner and consultant. Hortonworks, based in Sunnyvale, CA, is a leading commercial vendor promoting the innovation, development and support of Apache Hadoop. The Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) is a 100% open source data management platform based on Apache Hadoop.
“We are proud to announce our partnership with Hortonworks, a company that continues to advance the capabilities and commercialization of the Apache Hadoop platform,” says Dave Reinke, cofounder of OpenBI. “This partnership will enable us to leverage the Hortonworks Data Platform to bring better services and support to our customers, meeting their big data analytics needs.”
OpenBI, with proven expertise in business intelligence, data integration and analytics and long-standing support of open source technologies, recognized the growing use of Apache Hadoop by clients and has sought out alliances with the most innovative vendors in this market. Hortonworks has proven its dedication to advancing Apache Hadoop’s capabilities while making it easier to integrate and use. This partnership brings value by offering best-of-breed architectural, implementation and platform support to address the opportunity of big data in the enterprise.
“The addition of OpenBI to our partner program substantially strengthens the Apache Hadoop community,” says Mitch Ferguson, vice president of business development , Hortonworks. “OpenBI’s business intelligence and analytics expertise broadens the portfolio of capable service providers for our clients, bridging the gap between big data analytics and traditional data warehousing.”
For more information about OpenBI’s services and capabilities, visit www.openbi.com.
About OpenBI
OpenBI is an innovative professional services firm committed to helping customers extract value from their growing data assets. Our transformative services combine architecture and implementation expertise in big data, advanced analytics and business intelligence. Clients benefit from OpenBI's real-world expertise in the Hadoop ecosystem, NoSQL, and high performance analytic databases. The OpenBI team delivers open-architected data integration and BI technology solutions while assisting data scientists with agile intelligence and advanced analytics platforms. OpenBI customers see us as innovative and pragmatic - delivering top-tier intelligence solutions efficiently and economically. For more information visit www.openbi.com.
About Hortonworks
Hortonworks is a leading commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, the preeminent open source platform for storing, managing, and analyzing big data. Our distribution, Hortonworks Data Platform powered by Apache Hadoop, provides an open and stable foundation for enterprises and a growing ecosystem to build and deploy big data solutions. Hortonworks is the trusted source for information on Hadoop and together with the Apache community, Hortonworks is making Hadoop more robust and easier to install, manage, and use. Hortonworks provides unmatched technical support, training and certification programs for enterprises, systems integrators, and technology vendors. For more information, visit www.hortonworks.com.
