Many enterprises are actively finding ways to capitalize on the vast amounts of big data they have at their disposal, turning to rapidly growing companies including Pentaho, LucidWorks and those on Website Magazine's new Master List of 25 Big Data Movers and Shakers (see below) including Tableau Software which recently went public in a 1 billion dollar IPO.
1010Data.com: With roots in the large-scale data systems of Wall Street, 110 data offers a web-based service for acquiring, organizing, managing and, of course, analyzing complex yet interrelated data. Built to handle multi-terabyte databases.
Actuate.com: Founded and serves as co-lead for the Eclipse BIRT open source project, a development environment for presenting data visualizations to users on any device, and which is an integral part of Actuate products including the ActuateOne product suite.
Birst.com: An enterprise-level business intelligence platform, allowing users to combine data from different source systems in real time.
Datasift.com: A social data platform that enables users to aggregate, filter and draw insights from public social conversions on social networks including Twitter and other sources. Ideal for those creating social CRM, business intelligence and news monitoring applications.
Dataspora.com:A predictive analytics firm acquired by Via Science in 2011. Provides a machine learning platform to discovuse cause and effect relationships within big data.
DataXU.com: A real-time media management platform build for digital, cross-channel ad campaigns. The platform combines automated media buying, optimization and analytics.
DigitalReasoning.com: A developer of data analytic solutions with a focus on understanding natural language patterns (taking structured and unstructured text as input) within big data using named entity recognition, knowledge of time and geographic references combined with patented relationship analysis.
GlassBeam.com: A software-as-a-service solution for product analysis which provides an automated, visual solution for operational data for sales, support, and engineering groups by mining machine log data generated from products.
GoodData.com: A cloud-based platform which combines data from internal reports, analytics and many more additional sources to connect information, people and processes and help organizations make better decisions to "turn data into dollars."
InformationBuilders.com: A provider of business intelligence and integration solutions, which offers consulting, edition support and product development services.
JasperSoft.com: A widely used business intelligence solution, providing interactive reports, dashboards and analytics for cloud, big data, and mobile deployments.
KarmaSphere.com: Provider of a popular self-service platform to access and collaborate upon big data and analytics functions for the do-it-yourselfer data scientist.
Kognitio.com: Developer of Kognitio WX2, a powerful, flexible and scalable enterprise-class MPP (massively parallel processing) database optimized for data analytics, data warehousing and business intelligence.
MicroStrategy.com: A provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence, mobile intelligence, and networks applications.
NGData.com: Offers a combination of big data management and machine learning technologies, to develop consumer intelligence management products for enterprises.
Panorama.com: A software company that provides a number of business intelligence solutions including web-based application Panorama Necto, which offers intuitive data discovery capabilities for DBA.
Panopticon.com: Provides visual data-discovery tools to accelerate business processes, reduce operational and investment risks and detect anomalies (fraud) and identify opportunities to increase profits and sales. Recently acquired by Datawatch.
ParAccel.com: Offers a high-performance analytic database designed for fast query performance at any scale, combined with extensibility and integration technology.
Platfora.com: More than just a user interface, this business intelligence and analytics platform aims to simplify big data and Hadoop for business analysts.
Qlikview.com: A popular business discovery platform that deliver user-driven business intelligence, to help to simplify decisions and harness the potential of data.
SiSense.com: A business intelligence software company and creators of an end-to-end software application, known as Prism.
Splunk.com: Providers of operational intelligence software for monitoring, reporting and analyzing real-time machine data as well as terabytes of historical data either on-premise or in the cloud.
SumoLogic.com: A providers of tools to transform big data into new sources of operations, security and compliance intelligence.
TableauSoftware.com: An intuitive, easy-to-use softare applications for big data analytics and visualization. Its products are design for both the desktop and the server.
Zoho.com: Online reporting and business intelligence services for analyzing big data, creating insightful reports designed for decision making.