BARC and MapR Join Information Builders Management Seminar Series

NEW YORK, N.Y., Sept. 15 – Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions will be joined by leading analyst firm BARC and big data technology innovator MapR in a management seminar series, “Making Real Money with Big Data and Smart Analytics,” designed to provide insight into how enterprises can leverage data and analytics to create competitive advantage, grow revenues, and reduce costs.

Information Builders’ management seminar series will provide key findings from BARC’s recent study “Big Data Use Cases: Getting Real on Data Monetization” with recommendations for best practices and guidance on how to support operational decision-making that directly affects a company’s profits and losses. The series will also highlight customer successes, such as the way Yellow Pages Canada uses big data to create new revenue streams, deliver better customer service, drive employee performance, and eliminate inefficiencies. Each session will feature a detailed look at MapR’s architectural and technology framework, which enables scalable big data analytics and decision-making in real time.

All attendees will also receive a complimentary copy of BARC’s report, “Big Data Use Cases: Getting Real on Data Monetization,” and an exclusive invitation to a half-day brainstorming session focusing on using big data and smart analytics to monetize data analysis.

The complimentary seminars with be held in four cities throughout Europe (registration required):

September 29 | 09:00 – 11:30 CEST | Paris
October 1 | 08:30 – 13:30 BST | London
October 6 | 09:00 – 13:30 CEST | Amsterdam
October 7 | 09:00 – 13:00 CEST | Frankfurt

About Information Builders

Information Builders helps organizations transform data into business value. Our software solutions for business intelligence and analytics, integration, and data integrity empower people to make smarter decisions, strengthen customer relationships, and drive growth. Our dedication to customer success is unmatched in the industry. That’s why tens of thousands of leading organizations rely on Information Builders to be their trusted partner. Founded in 1975, Information Builders is headquartered in New York, NY, with offices around the world, and remains one of the largest independent, privately held companies in the industry. Visit us at informationbuilders.com, follow us on Twitter at @infobldrs, like us on Facebook, and visit our LinkedIn page.

About MapR

MapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop with a proven, enterprise-grade platform that supports a broad set of mission-critical and real-time production uses. MapR brings unprecedented dependability, ease-of-use and world-record speed to Hadoop, NoSQL, database and streaming applications in one unified distribution for Hadoop. MapR is used by more than 700 customers across ad media, consumer products, financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, market research, networking and computers, retail/online and telecommunications as well as by leading Global 2000 and Web 2.0 companies. Amazon, Cisco, Google, Teradata and HP are part of the broad MapR partner ecosystem. Investors include Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. MapR is based in San Jose, CA. Connect with MapR on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

About BARC

BARC is an enterprise software industry analyst delivering product evaluations, conferences, market research, and consulting to more than 1,000 customers each year. BARC specializes in advising organizations on software selection in its core research areas of business intelligence, data management, and enterprise content management.

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Source: Information Builders