by Angela Guess
According to a recent article out of the company, “MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only Converged Data Platform, today revealed that TransUnion, a global risk and information solutions provider, is using the MapR Converged Data Platform to power the initial product offerings in its new Prama analytics platform. TransUnion recently launched Prama, a new self-service environment with advanced analytics leveraging the MapR Platform and Apache Drill. Prama provides TransUnion’s customers with market insights and historical perspectives to make better decisions and operationalize those decisions more effectively. Drill’s interactive SQL engine combines with Tableau’s visualization layer to constitute the primary components enabling analytics in Prama Insights.”
The article goes on, “The MapR-powered Prama Insights bases its analysis on TransUnion’s anonymized consumer credit database and a seven-year historical view of data. Data sources include records compiled from over 85,000 data feeds, covering about 300 million consumers. This self-service solution allows TransUnion customers to explore data and act on insights. With this new platform, TransUnion is allowing customers direct access to their content, but with the power of an advanced analytical platform and team of experts behind it.”
It adds, “Several years ago, TransUnion recognized their legacy platforms would not be able to scale and perform at the pace their vision for nimble pivoting and trend analysis demanded. In order to transform its technology to include cutting edge capabilities, TransUnion turned to MapR and began an IT-led project focused on providing their analysts and data scientists with greater flexibility, self-service access to full volumes of data and big data insight discovery capabilities. With the success of the internal project, TransUnion realized some of this content could be offered directly to customers to give them the ability to see for themselves how their decisions compare to the marketplace.”
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