On July 16, 2014 Teradata purchased assets of Revelytix, the product provider for the management of Big Data having unique technology of management of metadata and profound experience of integration of information within the enterprise.
Data management and understanding of metadata in Hadoop — one of the major problems and obstacles in a way of successful development of Hadoop today. Acquisition of Revelytix will give to Teradata new tools on management and data preparation in Hadoop as this company provides single solution in which work with metadata, procedures of lifecycle and complex data processing are integrated.
The staff of Revelytix passing to work into Teradata has experience in creation of solutions on management of metadata. With acquisition of Hadapt Teradata has a pilot team of the engineers having extensive knowledge in the field of Big Data which will be used for improvement of architecture of Teradata Unified Data Architecture.
From the organizational point of view employees and the intellectual property purchased as a result of these transactions will become a part of Teradata Labs, research division of Teradata.
The possibility of use of all available data became a strategic necessity for the organizations aimed at success. Investments of Teradata into technologies of Big Data, including investments into Teradata Aster and Hadoop, will add in offers of Teradata in the field of data warehouses and will help clients to derive a benefit maximum from Big Data.
Conditions of acquisition are not disclosed.