Think Big Analytics raises $3M, goes old school with big data consultancy
Summary
Collectively, the team of 50 has “hundreds of years of experience building advanced architectures for the financial services, technology, retail, and advertising sectors,” Bodkin says. Amid all this, an overwhelming numer and variety of vendors have sprung up promising enterprises the newest and best tools to manage this data. Since launching in 2010, Think Big has already worked with several Fortune 500 companies, including Wal-Mart, Apple, NetAPp, Reuters, Ancestry.com, HSBC, Quantcast, NASDAQ, and Ebay-owned Where, among others. In one instance, the company helped one retailer client transition from a legacy Teradata system to a Hadoop cluster, and as a result reduce its query times from six hours to four minutes. The closest thing to competitors, would be legacy System Integration (SI) firms like Cognizant, Infosys, and Accenture, according to Bodkin, although they don’t provide the same level of side-by-side collaboration and often won’t take on anything less than seven figure contracts.