TYSONS CORNER, Va.,
March 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a
leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms, today
announced that Apache Drill has been certified with the
MicroStrategy Analytics Enterprise Platform™. With MicroStrategy
Analytics Enterprise connected to Apache Drill, analysts can
instantly explore Big Data in any format as it arrives on Hadoop.
Furthermore, end users gain direct access to semi- and unstructured
data, without the need to first approach IT for any schema creation
and/or maintenance.
Apache Drill provides the flexibility to immediately query
complex data in native formats, while offering the agility to
derive timely insights from Big Data with minimal IT
involvement. Because SQL queries can run directly on various
file formats, live data can be explored as it is coming in, versus
spending weeks preparing and managing schemas and setting up ETL
tasks. Additionally, Apache Drill supports ANSI SQL so users
can easily leverage their SQL skills and existing investments in
business intelligence (BI) tools.
"With this integration, MicroStrategy users can more easily
leverage multi-structured Hadoop data to improve decision-making,
while reducing time-to-value and enabling rapid development of new
applications," said Tim Lang, Chief
Technology Officer, MicroStrategy Incorporated.
"MicroStrategy's certification of Apache Drill further
highlights MicroStrategy's commitment to investing in developing
our best-in-class enterprise-ready platforms for analytics,
mobility, and security, and staying on the forefront of
technological advancement in these fields."
Apache Drill connects to MicroStrategy through a standard ODBC
interface and supports ANSI SQL so the end user can leverage the
full suite of SQL semantics for analyzing data. This enables end
users to explore large-scale data sets on Hadoop with remarkable
ease of use.
"Apache Drill is integrated into the MapR Distribution for
Hadoop, which was recently recognized as the best SQL-on-Hadoop
platform by Gigaom Sector Roadmap: Hadoop/Data Warehouse
Interoperability," said Anil Gadre, Senior Vice President, Product
Management, MapR Technologies. "MicroStrategy certification with
Drill provides tremendous value to MicroStrategy users as it now
opens up self-service data exploration to many more data
sources."
MicroStrategy and MapR will host a webinar on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 12:00 PM EDT that details the implementation, use
case, and benefits of combining sophisticated BI tools with a
robust SQL-on-Hadoop solution. To view the webinar, please
visit:
http://info.microstrategy.com/accessing-multi-structured-data-sources?CID=701E0000000Dq00
About MicroStrategy Incorporated
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is a leading
worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms. The
Company's mission is to provide enterprise analytics, mobility, and
security platforms that are flexible, powerful, scalable, and
user-friendly. To learn more, visit MicroStrategy online, and
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