Infosys announced the launch of big data edge to radically simplify the complex task of analyzing big data to discover relevant information. By empowering business users to rapidly develop insights from vast amounts of structured and unstructured data, better business decisions can be made in near real-time. With Infosys big data edge, enterprises can reduce the time taken to extract information by up to 40% and generate insights up to eight times faster.
It includes a rich visual interface with more than 50 customizable dashboards and 250 built-in algorithms. These algorithms, a set of reusable business rules both function and industry-specific, enable business teams to self-serve the process of building insights while minimizing the need for technical intervention. Over 50 data source connectors, which allow easy access to structured and unstructured data residing across enterprise and external sources. This would enable acceleration of discovery of relevant information from existing, underutilized data. It also has a powerful collaboration wall and pre-built workflows that allow teams across functions to interact on insights and collectively implement decisions. Edge has a logical data warehouse providing a virtual data management architecture, eliminates the need for physical availability of data to build and test insights
The out-of-the-box applications for specific industry needs such as fraud detection and prevention, predictive analytics and monitoring, and customer micro-segmentation helps deliver faster returns on investment.
Announcing the new platform, Vishnu Bhat, Vice President and Global Head – Cloud, Infosys said, “Enterprises today cannot afford to spend an inordinate amount of time making sense of the data deluge that surrounds them. Infosys big data edge draws upon our deep research and development capabilities and proven expertise in Big Data and analytics to help clients turn data into revenues faster. This unique platform is already enabling ten global organizations to develop actionable insights in a matter of days and act on them from day one.”