HPCC Systems Enterprise Edition for big data analysis and processing

HPCC Systems Enterprise Edition for big data analysis and processing : HPCC Systems, provides open-source, enterprise-proven platform for big data analysis and processing for large volumes of data in 24/7 environments. HPCC Systems version 5.0 is available with enhancements to provide additional support for international users, visualization capabilities and new functionality such as a Juju charm that makes the platform easier to use. “We decided to open-source HPCC Systems three years ago to drive innovation for our leading technology that had only been available internally and allow other companies and developers to experience its benefits to solve their unique business challenges,” said Flavio Villanustre, Vice President, Products and Infrastructure, HPCC Systems, LexisNexis. HPCC Systems offers a consistent data-centric programming language, two processing platforms and a single architecture for efficient processing.Customers, such as financial institutions, insurance carriers, insurance companies, law enforcement agencies, federal government and other enterprise-class organizations leverage the HPCC Systems technology through LexisNexis products and services.

Community Edition is a free version of the HPCC Systems platform that is supported by an active community of developers and enthusiasts via the online discussion forums.Enterprise Edition is a subscription-based offering of the HPCC Systems platform for enterprises. It includes software, services and support to deliver the highest levels of reliability, security, and uptime proven over the years in mission-critical industrial settings. In addition to all of the features of the Community Edition, the Enterprise Edition features High availability system monitoring tools, LDAP/AD integration, Access to test cloud environment for a certain number of hours and Access to an HPCC extended knowledge base and extended source code library.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions creates data, risk, analytics and anti-fraud solutions for customers in the industries financial services, government, health care, insurance and retail.For example, using LexisNexis Identity Analytics and HPCC Systems to verify and authenticate the identities of customers applying electronically for public assistance benefits, the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) has saved more than $12 million in cost avoidance by preventing fraud and creating increased efficiencies within its first five months rolling out a statewide program.

“We are extremely pleased with the savings we’ve already realized in the short time our program has been implemented,” Florida DCF Office of Public Benefits Director Andrew McClenahan said. “We look forward to continuing to protect the identity of our clients and stopping fraud at the front door, making sure only those who truly need help receive it.”

More users drive innovation in areas of interest like visualization and machine learning functionality. One developer worked on integration with machine learning library in about two weeks without prior experience using HPCC Systems Enterprise Control Language (ECL). The integration, considered seamless from an ECL programming standpoint, represents approximately 100,000 lines of existing C++ libraries, uses embedded C++ wrappers, ECL macros and ECL functions.

With community contributions from developers and analysts across the globe, HPCC Systems is offering translations and localization in its version 5.0 for languages including Chinese, Spanish, Hungarian, Serbian and Brazilian Portuguese with other languages to come in the future. Additional enhancements include, Visualizations, Linux Ubuntu Juju Charm Support, Embedded language features, Apache Kafka Integration, New Regression Suite, External Database Support (MySQL) and Web Services-SQL.