Alteryx Strategic Analytics to Deliver Cloudera Impala and Hive 2 Integration

Alteryx Strategic Analytics to Deliver Cloudera Impala and Hive 2 Integration

Alteryx offers customers real-time query management

IRVINE, Calif., March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alteryx, Inc., the leading provider of Strategic Analytics, today announced it will support Cloudera Impala(TM), as well as Hive 2 to bring faster, more efficient access to Big Data for today's Data Artisans and line-of-business analysts.

"At Alteryx, we help businesses use Big Data to help make better decisions. The ability to perform real-time query management magnifies the impact of analytics by allowing faster data access to the full wealth of data available in Hadoop," said George Mathew, president and chief operating officer at Alteryx.  "Today's announcement highlights the value Alteryx continues to provide by Humanizing Big Data through our easy-to-use analytics platform and enabling companies to seize new business opportunities."

Alteryx will offer support of real-time query management through:

    --  Cloudera Impala Support - using the Impala driver, Alteryx will support
        Cloudera Impala to provide real-time, ad hoc query capability to Apache
        Hadoop, complementing traditional batch processing and providing faster
        queries for more proficient analytic results.
    --  Hive 2 Support - Alteryx now will also provide support for Hive 2, fast
        becoming the industry standard platform, via a Simba ODBC driver, which
        will allow data analysts a more efficient way to access and retrieve
        data from Hadoop.
Alteryx recently announced Alteryx Strategic Analytics 8.5 at its annual user conference, Inspire 2013.  Today's announcement of real time query support will be available in Q2 2013 following Alteryx Strategic Analytics 8.5 general availability.

Alteryx is announcing this in conjunction with GigaOm's Structure Data this week, March 20 - 21, 2013, where George Mathew will speak at 11:00 a.m. ET in the Aquitania West Suite. Mathew will discuss 'How big data blending drives better business analytics,' including: empowering business analysts to get more value, analyzing data in the context of all relevant data, and performing real-time Hadoop queries. Attendees can also visit the Alteryx booth (#2) at the conference for more information.

About Alteryx, Inc.
Alteryx provides an indispensable and easy-to-use analytics platform for enterprise companies making critical decisions that drive their business strategy and growth.  Alteryx Strategic Analytics runs analytic applications that empower executives to identify and seize market opportunities, outsmart their competitors, increase customer loyalty and drive more revenue.  It Humanizes Big Data by enabling business analysts and Data Artisans to combine Big Data with market knowledge, location insight, and business intelligence; easily perform predictive and spatial analytics; and produce analytic apps that can be shared via the private cloud or the Alteryx Analytics Gallery public cloud. Customers like Experian Marketing Services and McDonald's rely on Alteryx daily. Headquartered in Irvine, California, and with offices in Boulder and Silicon Valley, Alteryx empowers 250+ customers and 200,000+ users worldwide.  Visit Alteryx, the leader in Strategic Analytics, today at http://www.alteryx.com or call 1-888-836-4274.

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CONTACT: Brandy S. Baxter, Alteryx, Inc., +1-650-375-2907, bbaxter@alteryx.com, Twitter: @brandysbaxter

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