Partnership Enables Big Data Clients with Advanced GeoSpatial and
Data Quality Capabilities
STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2017--
Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that provides
innovative products and solutions to power commerce, announced today
that it has joined Hortonworks Partnerworks in the Modern Data Solutions
(MDS) partner program to enhance data management and analytics for
clients so that they may be able to leverage the power of a Big Data
platform. Clients will now have access to data quality, advanced
geospatial foundation and geo-enrichment capabilities that will result
in faster, more scalable business insight.
Through the partnership Pitney Bowes will deploy its data quality and
geospatial capabilities, which recently achieved Hortonworks
Certification. These data quality and geospatial capabilities are
critical in driving business transformation and outcomes in a
data-driven world. Location-based data, in particular, plays an
important role in how businesses understand their customers because it
is one of the most consistent ways to link people, places and things.
Data storage and analytics are both equally critical to how businesses
interpret this data. Traditional infrastructures are designed to analyze
large quantities of data, on premise, through hardware devices. However,
these infrastructures cannot handle the tremendous amounts of structured
and unstructured data that today’s consumers produce each day, both on
and offline. Businesses that rely on traditional infrastructures are
challenged to analyze data with speed and scale.
Hortonworks is a leading industry innovator, focused on creating,
distributing and supporting enterprise-ready, open and connected data
platforms, and modern data applications that deliver actionable
intelligence from all data. Its connected data platforms, powered by
open source technologies, are making it possible for clients to analyze
mass amounts of structured and unstructured data, while Pitney Bowes
adds the spatial and vertical market-specific data to allow customers to
fully leverage the power of a Hortonworks Data Platform.
“Hortonworks is dedicated to expanding and empowering the modern data
solution ecosystem, which ultimately accelerates adoption of connected
data platforms,” says Chris Sullivan, Senior Vice President, Global
Channels & Alliances, Hortonworks. “We are pleased to welcome Pitney
Bowes to the Partnerworks community and look forward to working with
them to strengthen the role of connected data platforms for the
enterprise.”
Pitney Bowes’ spatial analytics solutions are utilized across many
verticals including insurance, financial services, telecommunications
and retail, with many applying these analytics across massive, global
data sets. Insurance firms rely on Pitney Bowes’ spatial capabilities to
better understand risk profiles by geography. Financial services firms
leverage spatial analytics to optimize branch and ATM locations.
Telecommunications providers and retailers use spatial data to better
understand their subscribers and customers to present the most
attractive offers to them. Additionally, analytics for the Internet of
Things (IoT) require location attributes in order to fully address asset
management use cases.
“Our partnership is extremely beneficial for Pitney Bowes and
Hortonworks clients because it’s one that will enable our clients to get
tremendous business value out of their Big Data investments through
geospatial analytics,” says Roger Pilc, Executive Vice President, Chief
Innovation Officer, Pitney Bowes. “By making our solutions available
through one of the market’s most respected big data providers, we’re
making it easy for partners and clients to derive meaningful insight,
quickly and at scale.”
Pitney
Bowes Big Data solutions enable end users to quickly visualize
patterns and relationships, inform interpretation and decision making,
and generate richer insights and a faster return-of-investment. With
data quality and geospatial analytics embedded directly into Big Data
applications, it’s easy to keep pace with the extraordinary speed and
scale required. Clients can expedite insights, bread down data silos,
boost accuracy and precision with geospatial and geo-enrichment
capabilities, and link information across and with datasets like never
before.
Currently, the Pitney Bowes capabilities offered through Hortonworks
include Spectrum Geocoding for Big Data, Spectrum Location Intelligence
for Big Data, Spectrum Data Quality for Big Data and the Spectrum
Technology Platform. These offerings enable clients to work with
structured and unstructured data to extract insights that can be applied
for better outcomes.
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) is a global technology company offering
innovative products and solutions that enable commerce in the areas of
customer information management, location intelligence, customer
engagement, shipping and mailing, and global ecommerce. More than 1.5
million clients in approximately 100 countries around the world rely on
products, solutions and services from Pitney Bowes. For additional
information, visit Pitney Bowes at www.pitneybowes.com.
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Pitney Bowes Inc.
Emily Simmons, 843-467-1071
emily.simmons@pb.com
