HEAVY.AI announced the limited release of HEAVY.AI 6.0,
with general availability to follow in April. The new capabilities, such as
HeavyConnect, deliver improved analytics performance and faster time to
decision-quality information, allowing organizations to immediately extract
value from their data. HEAVY.AI 6.0 empowers stakeholders to learn and make
decisions based on data without requiring sophisticated data science skills or
executing SQL commands.
"Like most organizations today, we constantly collect enormous volumes
of data across many endpoints. This data contains insights that are critical to
guiding our decision-making, but parsing through massive, complex data sets to
uncover those insights is a serious challenge," said Richard Sutton, VP of
Geospatial at Skyhook. "HEAVY.AI 6.0 transforms this process by providing
immediate access to enormous data extracts, with accelerated query performance
and analytics tools that are easily accessible even for highly complex
functions. These capabilities enable us to make timely, reliable decisions
based on a complete understanding of the shape and dynamics of our data."
As enterprises gather massive volumes of location and
time-based data from many disparate sources, such as sensors, IoT devices and
satellites, they struggle to leverage and derive value from that data. Data
scientists spend significant effort just to manage all this data rather than
deriving analytic value from it, and analysts and other stakeholders are often
unable to interrogate the data at all without the help of more advanced users.
"According to our research, data
scientists and statisticians remain the top users of data science and ML
solutions. However, ML's importance and use has increased to include business
analysts and business intelligence experts," said Howard Dresner, Founder and
Chief Research Officer at Dresner Advisory Services. "The growing and shifting
demand for these solutions will drive development in favor of greater usability
(e.g., low code/no code; automation) and manageability (e.g., MLOps)."
HEAVY.AI 6.0 introduces several significant new capabilities
to enable rapid, informed decision-making. The product equips both seasoned
data scientists and broader business analysts with immediate access to their
data sets, allowing them to execute queries in milliseconds, uncover deep
understanding and ultimately deliver significant new business value. In
addition, HEAVY.AI 6.0 introduces new artificial intelligence (AI) and machine
learning (ML) beta features that provide a foundation for future advanced
analytics visualization and integration upgrades.
"Enterprises today recognize the importance of data to guide business
decisions. Yet, organizations are challenged when it comes to managing big data
and making sense of rapidly growing, increasingly complex datasets. As a
result, they often make critical decisions based on incomplete and old data,"
said Jon Kondo, CEO of HEAVY.AI. "HEAVY.AI 6.0 enables enterprises to quickly
unify and analyze all data as they collect it, regardless of how complex or messy
it may be. With timely information from real-time data, these organizations
will be able to uncover new opportunities and risks to support better business
results."
HEAVY.AI 6.0's key new capabilities include:
- HeavyConnect: HEAVY.AI 6.0 supports
faster time to decision-quality information with the introduction of
HeavyConnect. With HeavyConnect, users can immediately analyze and
visualize their data wherever it currently exists, without the need to
export or import data or duplicate storage. This effectively eliminates
data gravity, making it easier to leverage data within the HEAVY.AI system
and derive value from it.
- HeavyDB: HEAVY.AI 6.0 delivers
major new SQL capabilities and performance improvements, including
real-time string operations that can run on both GPUs and CPUs, more
comprehensive window function support, and system and user defined table
function support.
- Heavy Immerse: HEAVY.AI's browser-based
visualization client now includes an administrative panel that provides a
comprehensive view of existing deployments. The panel offers detailed
information on how many tables and dashboards a system has, who owns those
assets, the amount of storage and memory they're using and more.
- Performance and
Scalability Improvements: HEAVY.AI has been significantly optimized for 6.0 to
further increase performance and scalability, including enhancements such
as 10X faster initial joins, parallel query compilation, and dramatically
faster data egress to Immerse and other clients.
- Interactive ML and
Custom Algorithms: HEAVY.AI
6.0 features in beta the ability to integrate ML models
directly into the analytics workflow, both via SQL and in Heavy Immerse.
Users can now obtain real-time visual feedback on how model accuracy is
impacted by changes to input data and model parameters, and then use the
model for workflows such as scenario planning, fraud detection, asset
valuation and missing data inference. Furthermore, users can register
their own functions, algorithms and models in the system via Numba Python,
which is then run at the speed of the underlying hardware via HeavyDB's
parallel execution framework.
"To get more from their data, organizations increasingly
look to marry the subject matter expertise embedded in their organization with
augmented machine learning and data science capabilities that can help surface
hidden correlations and anomalies," said Todd Mostak, Co-founder and CTO of
HEAVY.AI. "HEAVY.AI 6.0 makes it easy to fuse key datasets from multiple stores
of record, and then combine the power of interactive visual interrogation with
hardware-accelerated ML capabilities and custom algorithms to get to answers
faster than ever before."
HEAVY.AI 6.0 will be generally
available in April. To learn more about HEAVY.AI 6.0 and its capabilities,
please visit www.heavy.ai/product/release/6-0.
To sign up for a free trial, visit https://www.heavy.ai/product/downloads.