Teradata acquisitions strengthen big data innovation

SAN DIEGO, USA: Teradata, the analytic data platforms, marketing applications, and services company, has announced two acquisitions.

Teradata acquired assets of Revelytix, a provider in information management products for big data with unique metadata management technology and deep expertise in integrating information across the enterprise. Teradata also acquired assets of Hadapt, including experienced big data technologists and intellectual property.

Scott Gnau, president, Teradata Labs, said: "We welcome Revelytix and Hadapt employees to Teradata and we look forward to their contributions in helping Teradata Labs accelerate delivery of big data solutions for our customers. The addition of the key assets of these companies underscores Teradata's commitment to continued innovation and customer value, extends our big data portfolio, and enhances the Teradata Unified Data Architecture."

Data governance and understanding metadata in Hadoop is one of the biggest challenges and impediments to success with Hadoop today. The Revelytix acquisition brings to Teradata new data management and data preparation tools in Hadoop, as it delivers integrated metadata, lineage, and data wrangling all in a single software solution.

The Revelytix team joining Teradata has a deep history in metadata management solutions. From Hadapt, Teradata has gained an experienced engineering team with deep big data knowledge that will be leveraged to enhance and move forward the Teradata Unified Data Architecture.

Organizationally, the people and intellectual property acquired in these transactions will become part of Teradata Labs, the research and development arm of Teradata.

Because they are not material to Teradata, the terms of these acquisitions have not been disclosed.