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David Smith – VP, Marketing

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Revolution R Enterprise and The Big-Data Predictive Analytics Ecosystem

Presenter(s):

David Smith – VP Marketing and Community

David Smith leads corporate marketing and community relations at Revolution Analytics, the leading provider of software and services for the open-source R statistical language. David writes daily about applications of R, analytics and open-source software at the Revolutions blog, and was named a top 10 influencer on the topic of “Big Data” by Forbes. He is the co-author (with Bill Venables) of the tutorial manual, An Introduction to R, and one of the originating developers of the ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics project. Prior to joining Revolution Analytics, David was the director of product management for S-PLUS at Insightful, Inc.

Michele Chambers – Chief Strategy Officer

Michele Chambers is an entrepreneurial executive with over 25 years of industry experience. As the Chief Strategy Officer at Revolution Analytics, Michele is responsible for corporate strategy, product management and product marketing. Michele’s passion is helping companies identify new areas to apply analytics that drive high business value and create sustainable differentiation in the market. Michele was formerly the GM & VP Big Data Analytics at IBM. Her team was responsible for working with customers to fully exploit the IBM Big Data platform including the IBM Netezza appliance via scalable, high performance advanced analytics on IBM Netezza’s massively parallel computing platform. Michele was responsible for guiding the vision, strategy, sales and go-to-market for IBM Netezza Analytics. Michele is the co-author of “Big Data Big Analytics” (Wiley) that helps businesses and IT managers/executives understand the value of big data through practical use case stories along with consumable descriptions of the enabling technology. Michele holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Nova Southeastern University and an MBA from Duke University.

Company Profile:

Revolution Analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and services based on the open source R project for statistical computing. Led by analytics consulting veteran Dave Rich, the company brings high performance, productivity, and enterprise readiness to R, the most powerful statistics language in the world. Used by over 2 million analysts in academia and at cutting-edge companies such as Google, Bank of America, and Acxiom, R has emerged as the standard of innovation in statistical analysis. The company’s flagship Revolution R Enterprise product extends R to meet the production deployment needs of large organizations in finance, life sciences, retail, manufacturing, and other data-driven industries.

Case Studies:

Northern Trust Bank

exelate

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Big Data Analytics in R

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Getting value out of big data with analytics can be tough, and challenges the status quo of many tools and infrastructures. As the R language gains adoption, Revolution is committed driving its adoption deeper into the enterprise, and this means into the emerging big data landscape. In this presentation, we’ll update the BBBT on our progress and that of some of our users who have used R to extract analytical value form their big data assets.

Presenter(s):

Bill Jacobs, VP, Product Marketing

Bill Jacobs is Revolution Analytics’ VP of Product Marketing. Bill brings a rich perspective on Big Data Analytics developed over the past ten years working for companies including IBM/Netezza and Pivotal, and has helped users pioneer Big Data analytics for telecom, financial services, health and life sciences, retail, manufacturing and insurance companies.

At Revolution Analytics, Bill manages Revolution’s efforts to converge the simplicity of R analytics with the capacity of Hadoop and MPP EDWs. Bill helps users identify opportunities to improve business outcomes using big data analytics by applying Revolution Analytics’ streamlined approach to modeling, development and integration of Big Data analytics.

Most recently, Bill helped Revolution Analytics to launch the latest revision of Revolution R Enterprise adding groundbreaking support for in-database in-Teradata and in-Hadoop analytics that provide scale heretofore unavailable to users of R.

An avid commercial pilot, airplane restorer and outdoorsman, Bill resides in Denver, Colorado with his family and can be found on Twitter at @bill_jacobs.

Steve Belcher, Sales Engineering

Company Profile:

Revolution Analytics, with its flagship Revolution R software and services suite, is the innovative leader in Big Data enterprise analytics. Powered by the R language, the de facto standard for what Gartner describes as Advanced Analytics, Revolution R is used by enterprises with massive data, performance and multi-platform requirements to drive down the cost of Big Data. The suite includes Revolution R Open, a free, enhanced open source R distribution. Revolution R Plus adds a subscription-based technical support and indemnification package to Revolution R Open. Revolution R Enterprise delivers parallelized analytics to the heart of Big Data platforms including data warehouses and Hadoop. Revolution R Cloud is available on-demand through the AWS Marketplace.

Case Studies:

Datasong

American Century Funds

Northern Trust

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