by Angela Guess
According to a new press release, “Arcadia Data, provider of the first native visual analytics software for big data, today announced upcoming support for KSQL, a new technology for continuous, interactive queries on Kafka topics via SQL, which was announced today by Confluent. The integration gives all users advanced visualizations for streaming data use cases, specifically around alerts and time-based data exploration (and drill downs). The integration will be available in Arcadia Enterprise later this year.”
The release continues, “Industries ranging from financial services to automotive can deploy analytical applications with real-time requirements in critical initiatives including: (1) Predictive maintenance. Companies with specialized products and machinery need easier ways to identify impending failures that result in significant losses. Visualizations on streaming data allows analysts to see trends and patterns that lead to failure, so equipment can be repaired or replaced before the failure occurs. (2) Financial services risk reporting. With real-time analysis, banks are able to get an immediate understanding of capital market risk, and can make quick decisions about asset allocation and continuously ensure compliance. (3) Data quality checks. By identifying data quality issues earlier in the pipeline as data is coming in, businesses can avoid costly downstream errors that lead to bad or delayed decisions. Checks are run on each input source to uncover problems up front and resolve issues faster.”
The release adds, “Thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), today’s organizations are leveraging massive volumes of fast-moving data unlike ever before. However, since most existing IoT analytics technologies are developer-oriented, only data engineers or data scientists obtain business value from streaming data, and only with significant IT intervention. With the KSQL integration, Arcadia Enterprise unlocks the value of IoT analytics to business analysts and lets any user directly query the streaming data sets, or ‘topics,’ in Apache Kafka, a leading technology for managing real-time data.”
Read more at Globe Newswire.
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