WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mzinga® (http://www.mzinga.com), the leader in social intelligence solutions, services, and analytics for business, today announced that Teradata, the world’s largest company focused on big data analytics and data warehousing, has selected the Mzinga OmniSocial® solution to power the first collaborative Big Data community for Aster SQL-MapReduce®. The online community will help to drive innovation and promote the entrepreneurial spirit of the world’s leading Big Data developers and data scientists by connecting engineers, customers, partners and academics who are building and deploying solutions based on Teradata Aster’s technology.
Mzinga OmniSocial is an enterprise-class social software platform offering social networking and collaboration features to inspire and foster learning, brand visibility, collaboration and support. With OmniSocial, Teradata Aster will empower developers—including data scientists, quantitative analysts and engineers—to benefit from the experience, expertise, knowledge and best practices of the larger community so that they can more efficiently learn about and apply the power of the Teradata Aster SQL-MapReduce technology.
“We chose Mzinga OmniSocial to enable this developer center because they have vast social media and community experience and powerful, enterprise-class social software,” said Tasso Argyros, vice president of Aster Data Marketing and Product Management, Teradata Corporation. “This new developer portal builds on Teradata Aster’s continuing SQL-MapReduce innovation and delivers a unique and rich set of tools to make development of analytics quick and easy.”
The new SQL-MapReduce community lets members network with other developers, engage in and access discussions and provide feedback to each other by commenting, rating and reviewing content. The community also allows members to upload functions, sample code, data sets, use cases and other documentation.
“The SQL-MapReduce community was designed to foster innovation among the elite group of data scientists and programmers who use analytic technology to analyze data that has a tremendous impact on their organizations,” said Randy Saari, senior vice president of customer experience at Mzinga. “We are pleased to work with the team at Teradata Aster to champion a peer-to-peer community that allows them to interact, respond to and support the needs of their customers.”
About Aster Data
Teradata's Aster Data Analytic Platform is the market-leading big data analytics solution. The Aster Data analytic platform embeds MapReduce analytic processing for deeper insights on new data sources and multi-structured data types to deliver analytic capabilities with breakthrough performance and scalability. Aster Data's solution utilizes Aster Data's patent-pending SQL-MapReduce to parallelize the processing of data and applications and deliver rich analytic insights at scale. For more information, visit www.asterdata.com, or for more information about Teradata, see teradata.com.
About Teradata
Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) is the world’s largest company focused on raising intelligence through data warehousing, big data analytics and integrated marketing management. Our customers trust Teradata's innovative products and services expertise to deliver measurable business value. Please visit teradata.com for details.
About Mzinga
Mzinga is the leading provider of social intelligence solutions, services, and analytics that improve business performance. Through a combination of enterprise-class technology, strategy and online moderation services, Mzinga social solutions enable businesses to increase revenue and lower costs by improving brand visibility, workplace satisfaction, and customer loyalty. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Mzinga supports more than 15,000 communities and 2.5 billion monthly page requests from 40 million unique visitors in 160 countries worldwide.
To learn more about Mzinga, visit www.mzinga.com.