Alpine Data Labs

Alpine Data Labs
Private
Founded San Mateo, California 2011
Headquarters San Francisco, California, USA
Key people
 Joe Otto, President & CEO
Services Advanced Analytics on Hadoop and Big Data
Number of employees
 45 (As of October 2013)
Divisions f
Website www.alpinenow.com

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 scientist" who understands languages like MapReduce or Pig.[2][9][10]

Co-founded by Anderson Wong and Yi-Ling Chen, Joe Otto serves as president and CEO of Alpine Data Labs.[11]

History

Greenplum commissioned its then employees Anderson Wong and Yi-Ling Chen to develop an app that could work with databases.[12] Greenplum was acquired by EMC Corporation and Alpine Data Labs was co-founded by Wong and Chen in 2010.[13][14] The site launched in May 2011 with Wong serving as CEO.[15] That month, Alpine raised 7.5 million in Series A round funding from EMC Greenplum, Sierra Ventures, Mission Ventures, and Sumitomo Corp. Equity Asia.[15] The funding was used in part to move Alpine’s headquarters from Beijing to San Mateo, California.[16] Its 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.[17][18] In June 2011, Alpine Miner 2.0 for Oracle Database was released.[12]

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.[19] 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.[20] 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.[13][21] 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.[22] Alpine also moved its headquarters from San Mateo to San Francisco in November 2013. In February 2014, Alpine Data Labs was added to the Gartner Magic Quadrant as a "Niche Player."[23][24]

In March 2014, Alpine Data Labs was certified by Databricks on Apache Spark.[25]

References

  1. ↑ "Sand Hill 50 "Swift and Strong" in Big Data". Sand Hill. January 8, 2014. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Robin Bloor (January 6, 2014). "10 Companies and Technologies to Watch in 2014". Inside Analysis. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ Ted Cuzzillo (December 4, 2013). "Alpine Data and Goliath". Data Doodle. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ Eric Blattberg (2013-10-30). "Big data, little companies: These six startups want to disrupt the data world". Venture Beat. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  5. ↑ Noreen Seebacher (October 2, 2013). "Big-Data Draws Attention at Interop New York". All Analytics. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  6. ↑ Scott Koegler (December 3, 2013). "Making Big Data Work For Your Business". Forbes. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  7. ↑ Bob Gourley (2013-10-17). "The breakthrough technologies every analyst should know about". Analyst One. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  8. ↑ Valentina Craft (2013-10-29). "2014, the year of Big Data applications". Silicon Angle. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  9. 1 2 Christina Farr (2013-11-22). "Alpine Data Labs gets $16M to ensure companies 'won't fail' with big data analytics". Venture Beat. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  10. 1 2 Derrick Harris (2013-11-22). "Alpine Data Labs raises $16 million for its visual approach to data science". Gigaom. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  11. ↑ Gil Press (2013-09-24). "What's A CMO To Do? Alpine Data Labs' Otto And Aziza On The Digital Marketing Landscape". Forbes. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  12. 1 2 Derrick Harris (July 20, 2011). "Greenplum protégé brings predictive muscle to Exadata". Gigaom. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  13. 1 2 Alex Woodie (2013-10-29). "Alpine Demos Big Data Analytics from an iPad". Datanami. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  14. ↑ Robin Wauters (May 11, 2011). "Alpine Data Labs Scores $7.5 Million To Help Companies Analyze Troves Of Data". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  15. 1 2 Patrick Hoge (May 11, 2011). "Alpine Labs gets $7.5M to mine Big Data". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  16. ↑ "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. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  17. ↑ Jeffrey Kelly (May 23, 2011). "Alpine Data Labs Offers Visualization Tools to Create In-Database Analytics Models". Silicon Angle. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  18. ↑ Robert Gelber (2/16/12). "Alpine Data Climbs Analytics Mountain". Datanami. Retrieved March 8, 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. ↑ "Alpine Data Labs Names Joe Otto CEO". Reuters PE HUB. May 3, 2013. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  20. ↑ Alex Konrad (2013-11-22). "This Startup Just Raised $16M To Help Barclays, Nike And Havas Play With Big Data". Forbes. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  21. ↑ Brandon Butler (November 11, 2013). "Products of the week 11.11.13". Network World. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  22. ↑ Mike Vizard (November 7, 2013). "Alpine Data Analytics App Works Directly Against Hadoop". IT Business Edge. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  23. ↑ Gregory Piatetsky (2014-02-24). "SAS, IBM, RapidMiner, Knime leaders in Gartner MQ for Advanced Analytics Platforms". KDnuggets. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  24. ↑ "Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms". Gartner. 2014-02-19. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  25. ↑ Daniel Gutierrez (2014-03-18). "Databricks Certifies Alpine Data Labs on Spark". Inside Big Data. Retrieved 2014-03-30.
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