Persistent announces strategic solutions with IBM InfoSphere BigInsights

Persistent Systems, an outsourced software product development services provider, has announced strategic solutions around email analytics and social media analytics that run on top of IBM’s InfoSphere BigInsights, company said in a statement. Persistent Systems is an IBM Business Partner, which provides professional services and solutions leveraging IBM’s Big Data platform.

IBM’s Big Data platform allows enterprises of all sizes to cost effectively manage and analyse the massive volume, variety and velocity of data that consumers and businesses create every day.

Commenting on the partnership Bruce Weed, program director of big data business development, IBM Information Management, said, "Persistent Systems brings strong capabilities on the BigInsights platform and proven expertise in analytics solutions using both structured and unstructured data. Their experience working with IBM BigInsights over the past two years makes them well positioned to serve our clients. We look forward to their future innovations on the BigInsights platform and the business insights they are able to help bring to our customers."

Hari Haran, president of Persistent Systems Inc, said, "Persistent Systems has heavily invested in Big Data and Hadoop over the past two years, laying the groundwork for unleashing this powerful platform. Persistent System’s solutions for IBM BigInsights help customers unlock the value of their most important asset, ‘their data’. We firmly believe that IBM BigInsights will be a platform of choice for many Fortune 1,000 enterprises."

According to the statement, Persistent Systems is helping companies access this data and extract valuable insights which companies can use to improve their business processes and customer offerings. Persistent Systems has invested in algorithms, data-connectors and solutions that aim to accelerate the time to deliver business results on IBM’s BigInsights platform.