Alpine Data Labs Explained

Alpine Data Labs
Type:Private
Foundation:San Mateo, California 2011
Location City:San Francisco, California
Key People:Dan Udoutch, President & CEOSteven Hillion, Chief Product Officer
Services:Advanced Analytics on Hadoop and Big Data
Num Employees:45 (As of October 2013)
Founders:Anderson Wong & Yi-Ling Chen
Location Country:USA

Alpine Data Labs is an advanced analytics interface working with Apache Hadoop and big data.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] It provides a collaborative, visual environment to create and deploy analytics workflow and predictive models.[7] [8] This aims to make analytics more suitable for business analyst level staff, like sales and other departments using the data, rather than requiring a "data engineer" or "data scientist" who understands languages like MapReduce or Pig.[2] [9] [10]

Dan Udoutch serves as president and CEO of Alpine Data Labs.[11]

History

Ex-Greenplum employees Anderson Wong and Yi-Ling Chen developed an app that could work with databases, which was used by the Data Science team at EMC[12] as well as early customers in Financial Services and Digital Media.[13] [14] Alpine Data Labs was co-founded by Wong and Chen in 2010.[15] [16] That year, Alpine raised 7.5 million in Series A round funding from EMC Greenplum, Sierra Ventures, Mission Ventures, and Sumitomo Corp. Equity Asia.[17] The funding was used in part to set up Alpine's headquarters in San Mateo, California.[18] Alpine also appointed its Chief Product Officer, Steven Hillion, who had led the Data Science team at Greenplum.[19] Alpine's core product then, Alpine Miner, allowed for non-data scientists to create predictive analytics data models without using code and used an "In-Database" model.[20] [21] In June 2011, Alpine Miner 2.0 for Oracle Database was released.[13]

Tom Ryan was appointed CEO and president of Alpine Data Labs in January 2012 and served until April 2013. The following month, Joe Otto was appointed to serve as CEO and president.[22] In November 2013, Alpine Data Labs raised $16 million in Series B venture funding.[9] [10] Investors included Sierra Ventures, Mission Ventures, UMC Capital, and Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH.[23] That same month, it also released Alpine 3.0, which introduced a drag and drop interface and access to data from any device that with internet capabilities, including tablets and phones.[15] [24] This makes it possible for analysts to access data on Hadoop, and other databases and data warehouses, without IT having to move the data into another interface.[25] Alpine also moved its headquarters from San Mateo to San Francisco in November 2013, by which point the company had significantly expanded the functional breadth of its platform with enterprise collaboration and governance features.[26] In February 2014, Alpine Data Labs was added to the Gartner Magic Quadrant as a "Niche Player",[27] [28] and later as a "Visionary".[29]

In 2014, the company released an integration with the R programming language, as well as support for all major Hadoop distributions and all major relational databases.[30]

Alpine was acquired by TIBCO Software in November 2017.[31]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sand Hill 50 "Swift and Strong" in Big Data. Sand Hill. January 8, 2014. March 8, 2014.
  2. Web site: 10 Companies and Technologies to Watch in 2014. Inside Analysis. Robin Bloor. January 6, 2014. March 8, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140317085403/http://insideanalysis.com/2014/01/10-companies-and-technologies-to-watch-in-2014/. March 17, 2014. dead.
  3. Web site: Alpine Data and Goliath. Data Doodle. Ted Cuzzillo. December 4, 2013. March 8, 2014.
  4. Web site: Big data, little companies: These six startups want to disrupt the data world. Venture Beat. Eric Blattberg. 2013-10-30. March 8, 2014.
  5. Web site: Big-Data Draws Attention at Interop New York. All Analytics. Noreen Seebacher. October 2, 2013. March 8, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140308220543/http://www.allanalytics.com/author.asp?section_id=2220&doc_id=268388. March 8, 2014. dead.
  6. Web site: Making Big Data Work For Your Business. https://web.archive.org/web/20131207084755/http://www.forbes.com/sites/emc/2013/12/03/making-big-data-work-for-your-business/. dead. December 7, 2013. Forbes. Scott Koegler. December 3, 2013. March 8, 2014.
  7. Web site: The breakthrough technologies every analyst should know about. Analyst One. Bob Gourley. 2013-10-17. March 8, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140308233907/http://www.analystone.com/the-analyst-one-top-technologies-list/. 2014-03-08. dead.
  8. Web site: 2014, the year of Big Data applications. Silicon Angle. Valentina Craft. 2013-10-29. March 8, 2014.
  9. Web site: Alpine Data Labs gets $16M to ensure companies 'won't fail' with big data analytics. Venture Beat. Christina Farr. 2013-11-22. March 8, 2014.
  10. Web site: Alpine Data Labs raises $16 million for its visual approach to data science. Gigaom. Derrick Harris. 2013-11-22. March 8, 2014.
  11. Web site: What's A CMO To Do? Alpine Data Labs' Otto And Aziza On The Digital Marketing Landscape. Forbes. Gil Press. 2013-09-24. March 8, 2014.
  12. News: EMC Taps Alpine As SAS Alternative For Analytics - InformationWeek. InformationWeek. 2017-11-14. en.
  13. Web site: Greenplum protégé brings predictive muscle to Exadata. Gigaom. Derrick Harris. July 20, 2011. March 8, 2014.
  14. Web site: Alpine Data Labs Partners Partners Data Science Series. EMC. datascienceseries.com. en. 2017-11-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20171115082848/http://datascienceseries.com/partners/partners/alpine-data-labs. 2017-11-15. dead.
  15. Web site: Alpine Demos Big Data Analytics from an iPad. Datanami. Alex Woodie. 2013-10-29. March 8, 2014.
  16. Web site: Alpine Data Labs Scores $7.5 Million To Help Companies Analyze Troves Of Data. TechCrunch. Robin Wauters. May 11, 2011. March 8, 2014.
  17. Web site: Alpine Labs gets $7.5M to mine Big Data. Patrick Hoge. May 11, 2011. San Francisco Business Times. March 8, 2014.
  18. Web site: Alpine Data Labs Raises $7.5 Million in Series A Funding and Formally Launches in the U.S.. Database Trends and Applications. May 13, 2011. March 8, 2014.
  19. Web site: www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/potmsearch/detail/submission/459871/Steven_Hillion. www.bizjournals.com. 2017-11-14.
  20. Web site: Alpine Data Labs Offers Visualization Tools to Create In-Database Analytics Models. Silicon Angle. Jeffrey Kelly. May 23, 2011. March 8, 2014.
  21. Web site: Alpine Data Climbs Analytics Mountain. Datanami. Robert Gelber. February 16, 2012. March 8, 2014.
  22. Web site: Alpine Data Labs Names Joe Otto CEO. Reuters PE HUB. May 3, 2013. March 8, 2014.
  23. Web site: This Startup Just Raised $16M To Help Barclays, Nike And Havas Play With Big Data. Forbes. Alex Konrad. 2013-11-22. March 8, 2014.
  24. Web site: Products of the week 11.11.13. Network World. Brandon Butler. November 11, 2013. March 8, 2014.
  25. Web site: Alpine Data Analytics App Works Directly Against Hadoop. IT Business Edge. Mike Vizard. November 7, 2013. March 8, 2014.
  26. News: Alpine Data Labs - Butler Analytics. 2013-08-26. Butler Analytics. 2017-11-14. en-US.
  27. Web site: SAS, IBM, RapidMiner, Knime leaders in Gartner MQ for Advanced Analytics Platforms. KDnuggets. Gregory Piatetsky. 2014-02-24. March 8, 2014.
  28. Web site: Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms. Gartner. 2014-02-19. March 8, 2014.
  29. News: Gartner Again Recognizes Alpine Data as a Visionary in 2016 Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms. Alpine Data. 2017-11-14. en-US.
  30. News: Alpine's Chorus analytics framework sings with more languages. IT World Canada. 2017-11-14. en-US.
  31. Web site: TIBCO Acquires Alpine Data to Add Collaborative Project Management for Advanced Analytics TIBCO Software. www.tibco.com. en. 2017-11-15.

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