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The R Revolution
Fast, Powerful and Cost-Effective Analytics Technologies Reshaping Business Competition Worldwide
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Numbers drive business and big numbers drive big business. Predictive analytics unlocks the value of big numbers, converting them from sprawling collections of data points into finely honed competitive weapons. The language of predictive analytics is R. This amazingly powerful programming language is poised to make the leap from the laboratory to the marketplace. R is changing the face of business creating an entirely new era of competition based on fast, powerful and cost-effective analytic technologies. Revolution Analytics is the leading commercial provider of R software and support. The companys Revolution R products help make predictive analytics accessible to every type of user and budget.
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These modern analytic technologies can handle very large volumes of data, at very high speeds. In other words, analytic processes that used to take days to perform can now be accomplished in minutes. Now imagine the value of this extra speed and capacity. Imagine the value of turning your data into useful information that can be applied in an endless variety of practical ways, quickly and cost-effectively. Imagine the value of sifting through mountains of information and gleaning the knowledge you really need to make better decisions.
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faster performance and greater stability. It is a perfect product for learning R and performing basic analysis. The benefits of Revolution R include:
Improved Performance: Optimized libraries and compiler techniques run most computation-intensive programs significantly faster than Base R. Greater Reliability: Revolution R is built upon the latest proven & stable R releases. More powerful: Revolution R enables users to leverage the processing power of multi-core processors. Up-to-Date: A constant check of the R project means critical bugs and fixes are incorporated less for users to worry about.
For large-scale research and real-world business, Revolution Analytics offers Revolution R Enterprise, a premium production-grade analytic platform. The company also offers this same software to the academic community for free to ensure that professors, students and educational researchers can learn and leverage high-performance, high-productivity R. Revolution R Enterprise is designed for corporations, government agencies and academic researchers that require the highest levels of performance, reliability and computational power for their large-scale data analysis. It is optimized to run the fastest computations of any R software on a wide-range of platforms and features a visual development environment that leaves the command-line far behind. A subscription to Revolution R Enterprise also includes direct access to the companys expert technical support team. The benefits of Revolution R Enterprise include: Enhanced Speed and Reliability: Revolution R Enterprise is fast, usable and practical, making it the ideal choice for real-world data analytics. Visual Productivity: Graphic IDE enables faster, more accurate R programming Visual Debugging: Create reliable R applications faster. Create a breakpoint and step through code with a single click. 64-Bit Scalability: Analyze larger data sets on 64-bit Windows, taking full advantage of your equipment's RAM.
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Wide Platform Support: Available for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Parallel Processing Power: Significantly reduce computation time for simulations, optimizations, segmented data analysis and more. On-Call Technical Support: Revolution Analytics is there to support you when you need help or confront an issue.
Revolution Analytics also offers professional training and consulting services to meet specific needs. In the near future, the company will also provide Big Data analysis for terabyte-class file structures, integrated web services and a GUI for comprehensive data analysis.
Looking ahead
In 2010, Revolution Analytics will be delivering a series of technologies that will firmly establish its leadership role in the advanced analytics space pushing R past what is available in legacy tools. Among these capabilities: Big Data Analysis for Terabyte-Class File Structures A total solution that combines the use of external memory algorithms, distributed parallel computing, high performance data access and an extensible framework for processing huge datasets in R. The compressed file structure and other features are designed to make many R packages run faster and use less memory thus vastly increasing overall performance. Additionally, it will include a collection of the most-common statistical procedures used on Big Data that are scalable across cores and computers, and are orders of magnitude faster than using legacy tools. Integrated Web Services -- A scalable programming platform used to deliver R functionality on the Web and Cloud. It will help enterprises share data and analysis between users, data sources, and other enterprise software -- such as BI tools. Will support both anonymous R Script execution, and authenticated users working in a stateful environment. Comprehensive Data Analysis GUI A Web-based user interface that radically improves the usability of R, accelerates productivity and enables rapid learning for both novice and experts. Users will
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be able to seamlessly transition back and forth between R code and dialogs, and be exposed to only as much R code as they want to see. Built on a fully-extensible framework that allows for creating and modifying UI elements (menus, dialogs, outputs), users will be able to customize and extend the UI for their needs.
Products and Services to help migrate data and applications from legacy statistical systems to R such as the ability to import and read SAS, SPSS, and Stata files in an Enterprise R environment, and to convert code written in such systems to the R language.
Upsides, Downsides
Because the R programming language is an open-source project, it evolves continually through the contributions of a global community of academics, quantitative analysts and data miners. The evolutionary qualities of R invite comparisons to the early days of Linux, arguably the worlds most famous and most successful open-source project. This changeable aspect of R can be perceived as a positive and as a negative. On one hand, R is constantly being improved and enhanced by a self-organizing global community of software developers, most of whom contribute their time and energy freely to the project.
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On the other hand, no one is officially in charge of these developers if an enhancement proves beneficial, its accepted by the community and becomes part of the R language. If an enhancement doesnt work or if it creates issues that cannot be easily resolved, word spreads through the community and some sort of resolution emerges. In theory, thats how an open-source project works. While this kind of arrangement offers some genuinely spectacular benefits the worlds best programmers collaborating in an unfettered environment of intellectual freedom it also presents some notable downsides. For example, if you run a business that depends on software written in R to crunch through large data sets, theres no help desk to call when something goes wrong.
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Finally, the economic opportunity is unmistakable: the market for data management and analytic technologies currently generates about $100 billion and is growing at a pace of 10 percent annually. The market leaders in data analysis software today are based on decades-old technology unable to meet current demands for analysis of huge data sets within an easy-to-use user interface. With its modern roadmap centered around the open-source R project, Revolution Analytics stands to significantly disrupt this market.
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This capacity limitation then forces analysts to use smaller samples of data, which can lead to inaccurate or sub-optimal results. The second issue involves the inability of many R applications to read data quickly from files or other sources. Speed is critical in all areas of modern life, and it seems unreasonable to wait weeks or months for a computer to crunch through larger sets of data. Although some software packages claim to address these issues, whats usually missing is an over-arching framework with a top-down approach for analyzing Big Data easily and efficiently. Typically, analysts find themselves struggling with a collection of software tools that can create more problems than they solve. Revolution Analytics addresses these critical issues head on and solves them.
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represents a significant advancement in speed and efficiency over earlier R packages that required reading the entire data file before handling a specific piece of data.
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As an innovative leader, developer and supplier of critical new software and services, Revolution Analytics will play a significant role in this transformation.
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We also offer our full-featured production-grade software to the academic community at no cost, in order to support the continued spread of R's popularity to the next generation of analysts. For customers such as Pfizer, Novartis, Yale Cancer Center, Bank of America, Motorola, Hess and others, our flagship Revolution R Enterprise product is designed to deliver faster drug development, reduced time of data analysis, and more powerful and efficient financial models. Revolution Analytics' executive leadership represents some of the most respected and experienced names in statistical computing and open-source business with venture funding from Intel Capital and North Bridge Venture Partners.
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