
Dr. Kostas Tzoumas – Stratosphere Project
Dr. Kostas Tzoumas is a post-doctoral researcher at TU Berlin . Kostas is currently co-leading the Stratosphere project, that develops an open-source Big Data Analytics platform, the only of its kind in Europe. His research is focused on system architectures, programming models, processing and optimization for Big Data. Kostas has

Interview with Sablono
We met with Lukas Olbrich the co-founder and co-CEO at Sablono.Sablono is a software company founded and based in Berlin. The company is developing software solutions for the construction industry with a focus on project management and scheduling tools. The main product is Sablono BIMtime. Who are you and what brings you

Radoop – Making Big Data Analytics Easy
We met with CEO and Co – Founder of Radoop. Radoop is a big data analytics company with the goal of lowering the barrier for using Hadoop systems. The Radoop package allows even non-technical people to access, analyze and visualize big data, but also provides scripting and advanced predictive analytics for

FoundationDB – NoSQL Database with ACID Transactions
We spoke with Dave Rosenthal, CEO of FoundationDB, over a conference call last week. Dave gave us an overview of FoundationDB and its business activities. FoundationDB is a NoSQL database with a shared nothing architecture.The product is designed around a “core” database, with additional features supplied in “layers.” The core database exposes an ordered key-value store with transactions. The

GPredictive – Data Driven Decisions for Marketing & Sales
We met up with founders of GPredictive. GPredictive ´s mission is to provide customers with solutions that make decisions based upon data as easy as possible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aqZX8kFBXU Who are you and what are you doing? We are G-Predictive, a big data start-up. We want to give access to everyone to the

MammothDB: The Easy Jet of Big Data
We caught up with the founders of MammothDB at the CODE_n contest in Hannover. MammothDB was chosen from amongst various global big data startups to present their technology and services at CeBIT 2014. MammothDB is a specialized analytics database – much like Teradata or Vertica – but offered at a

Mint Labs – Using Data to Map Your Brain
We met up with Vesna Prčkovska, Co Founder of Mint Labs. Mint Labs develops visualization and image manipulation software for the virtual dissection of white matter structures of the brain. The company provides imaging marker quantification for longitudinal studies, across population and across time. Who are you? My name is Vesna Prčkovska

Leanciti – Building Energy Efficient cities
Who are you ? My name is Eran Aloni and I am the CEO of Leanciti. We are originally from Tel Aviv, Israel and for the past one year we have been working on developing a platform for cities to run their energy systems more efficiently. For Lean Citi, I joined

Jaspersoft and AWS Disrupt Business Analytics
San Francisco & London – April 8, 2014 – Jaspersoft, the Intelligence Inside applications and business processes, today announced the release of a Nucleus Research report validating how the utility-priced business analytics offered by Jaspersoft on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is disrupting the business analytics market. According to the report

Precogs – Improving and Fortifying Supply Chain
We met up with Jean Louis Andorin, COO of Precogs recently. Jean Louis gave us a brief insight into Precogs. Precogs is a business analytics company offering visibility on the risk of adverse events in the electronic manufacturing supply chain. Who are you?