SAN JOSE, CA — (Marketwired) — 11/25/13 — the leader in Hadoop technology for Big Data deployments, today announced it will present sessions about Big Data use cases and showcase its distribution for Apache HadoopR at several events in December, including:
Big Data & Analytics for Banking Summit
Southern California Big Data Executive Summit
Minneapolis Big Data Executive Summit
Data Marketing 2013
Highlights include:
December 4, 2013 at 9:05 AM
Marriott Downtown in New York, NY
MapR Solutions Architect Brad Anderson will present a workshop titled, “Prominent Big Data Use Cases in Banking.” Banking institutions are one of the most advanced users of Big Data technologies such as Hadoop and NoSQL. This session will review in detail some of the prominent real-world use cases that are being implemented to solve critical business problems in the financial industry. MapR is a sponsor and will be exhibiting at the event.
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December 4, 2013 at 9:20 AM
Omni Hotel Los Angeles at California Plaza in Los Angeles, CA
MapR Vice President of Product Management Tomer Shiran will moderate a panel titled, “The Digital Gold Rush.” In the mid-19th century, the discovery of gold in California-s hills sparked the westward migration of hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs. In 2013, organizations find themselves in the middle of a digital gold rush, as organizational data proves to hold the secrets to improving customer relationships, increasing operational efficiencies and decreasing costs. However, in both gold and data mining, luck tends to be reserved for those with a detailed understanding of the terrain. In this boardroom session, this interactive discussion will discuss how analytics teams are partnering with the business to identify the “right” data in order to heighten their chances of striking gold.
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December 5, 2013 at 1:50 PM
Hyatt Regency Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minnesota
MapR Chief Marketing Officer Jack Norris will present a session titled, “Big Data Operational Impacts.” Hadoop is changing how businesses fundamentally operate. While there continues to be discussions about SQL access, data queries, and data warehouse offloading, the real power of Hadoop is in operations, where high arrival rate data is processed and analyzed to better respond to revenue opportunities, risk mitigation and cost optimization. This session will explore case studies at the forefront of the Hadoop paradigm shift and discuss how companies are processing high volumes of diverse data.
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December 9, 2013 at 1:30 PM
Hyatt Regency Toronto in Toronto, Canada
MapR Senior Director of Interactive Marketing & Demand Generation Tracy Roccasalva will present a session titled, “Solving Big Data Problems with Hadoop.” As organizations begin to collect large volumes and variety of customer and operational data, they are relying on Hadoop to solve their marketing and business intelligence needs. The session will discuss the ways Hadoop can help target customers better by recommending the right products in order to improve customer retention.
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delivers on the promise of Hadoop with a proven, enterprise-grade platform that supports a broad set of mission-critical and real-time production uses. MapR brings unprecedented dependability, ease-of-use and world-record speed to Hadoop, NoSQL, database and streaming applications in one unified Big Data platform. MapR is used by more than 500 customers across financial services, retail, media, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications and government organizations as well as by leading Fortune 100 and Web 2.0 companies. Amazon, Cisco and Google are part of MapR-s broad partner ecosystem. Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, and Redpoint Ventures. MapR is based in San Jose, CA. Connect with MapR on , , and .
Beth Winkowski
MapR Technologies, Inc.
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Nancy Pieretti
MapR Technologies, Inc.
(603) 268-8007
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