Podium Data and Fusion Alliance Partner to Deliver

LOWELL, Mass., and INDIANAPOLIS, March 06, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Podium Data, maker of the leading data lake management platform, and Fusion Alliance, an enterprise information technology solution provider, have joined forces to help large companies build, deploy and manage data lakes, thereby reducing the time-to-answer from data-driven insights from three months to a couple of days. These data lakes are transforming how organizations are delivering actionable data to internal consumers through self-serve data marketplaces. The business users are in turn deriving real and immediate value for their businesses. With Podium Data’s technology, Fusion Alliance can deploy a data lake for a customer in a few weeks. Within a day of deployment, business users at the customer location will have self-service, on-demand access to data through the secure, enterprise data lake marketplace. This provides immediate return-on-investment (ROI), as employees can use that data to bring more analytic insights, agility and innovation to critical business decisions. “With the recent launch of version 3.0 of the Podium Data Lake Management Platform, we are delivering a mature, production-ready platform. Our partnership with Fusion Alliance will help us expand our distribution channel by working with such an experienced solution provider organization,” said Paul Barth, CEO, Podium Data. “Our first projects have gone very smoothly and proven that customers can start realizing the value of their data lake immediately when it goes live.” In its first deployment of the Podium Data platform, Fusion Alliance stood up a data lake for Vantiv, a leading credit card processor. Vantiv needed to compress the time-to-value in deployment of new data into its Hadoop data lake, and improve overall data quality by profiling data on ingest. This enables data quality remediation before the data is used in analytics by the data science team and is found to be erroneous.  Also, Vantiv needed to improve “first look” insight to available data by users, which is enabled through Podium’s capture of profiling results as searchable metadata. These improvements have accelerated the accumulation of benefits realized from Vantiv’s investments in what is now emerging as a valuable “Data Marketplace.” Fusion Alliance helps clients achieve competitive advantage by using the leverage of data and analytics. That mission focus drives the company to stay on top of the best products, architectures, and methods to take time out of the equation, while maximizing ROI. “With the Podium Data platform, our clients can rapidly transform their data lake project into a ‘data marketplace,’ where knowledge workers and other data consumers can shop for curated content that fuels their quest for insight,” said Mark Johnson, executive data leader, Fusion Alliance. “We are excited about the value proposition created as the result of our partnership with Podium Data. It enables us to significantly compress the time-to-value for our clients who are leveraging Hadoop to broaden and deepen customer and market insight through data and analytics.” 

Using Fusion and Podium Data, organizations can:

-       Deliver new data to the business 25 times faster,

-       Eliminate 40 percent of the cost for data prep and delivery,

-       Enable data analysts and other business teams to complete 30 times more analytics projects, using the same resources. Companies interested learning more about how a Podium-based data marketplace can help deliver business value to their organization can visit Podium Data at www.podiumdata.com and Fusion Alliance at www.fusionalliance.com . In addition, executives from Podium Data will be available to answer questions at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit (booth #803), March 6-9, 2017, and Strata + Hadoop World (booth #822), March 14-16, 2017. About Fusion Alliance Fusion helps companies embrace digital transformation to capitalize on market opportunities and address business issues. We do this by integrating our data, digital, technology and cloud solutions to create value-driven experiences for our customers and their customers. Our data practice delivers insights that feed our digital strategies. Our technology expertise allows us to build digital platforms to create seamless customer experiences. Fusion brings experience with cloud computing and how to create a strategy that will allow a business to be more agile, flexible and scalable. For more information, go to www.fusionalliance.com and follow Fusion on Twitter @fusionalliance.

About Podium Data, Inc. 
 Podium Data is redefining enterprise data management with its practical, high-performance data lake management platform. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, Podium’s seasoned team of entrepreneurs has deep expertise in analytics, big data, and enterprise data management. A growing number of Fortune 500 companies use Podium to provide secure self-service access to enterprise data. For more information, go to www.podiumdata.com and follow Podium on Twitter at @PodiumData.