On Tuesday, HP announced details of HP Haven Predictive Analytics, a platform that delivers machine learning and statistical analysis for large-scale datasets. HP Haven Predictive Analytics features distributed R, an analytics platform based on the R programming language designed to tackle the most complex Big Data predictive analytics tasks in the industry. Moreover, the HP Haven Predictive Analytics platform boasts support for SQL and HP Vertica in addition to preconfigured algorithms that allow developers to leverage out of the box, R-based analytics. The hallmark of the offering, however, consists of the distributed R analytical engine that leverages parallel R processing to allow the power of R’s predictive analytics to tackle big data sets. The conjunction of the platform’s data acceleration functionality with its distributed use of the open source R programming language stands to improve analytic performance on large datasets and enable statisticians to derive actionable business intelligence from petabytes of data with speed and analytic sophistication. As such, HP Haven Predictive Analytics augments the analytic power of the SQL on Hadoop Vertica platform by delivering a Big Data predictive analytics platform capable of analyzing structured and unstructured data via the cloud or an on premise deployment.
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