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Company: OmniSci, San Francisco, CA
Nomination Submitted by: Next PR
Company Description: OmniSci is the pioneer in accelerated analytics, redefining speed and scale in big data querying and visualization. The OmniSci platform is used to find insights in data beyond the limits of mainstream analytics tools. Harnessing the massive parallel computing power of GPUs & CPUs, the platform is available in the cloud and on-premise.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Business Technology
Nomination Sub Category: Big Data Solution
 Nomination Title: The OmniSci Analytics Platform
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The OmniSci team launched the company’s pioneering accelerated analytics platform in 2016 under the name MapD; the most recent release was rolled out in August 2021.
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The OmniSci Analytics Platform gives users power to find insights in big data beyond the limits of mainstream analytics tools, enabling discovery at the speed of curiosity by harnessing the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware. OmniSci Free, a full-featured version, is available for use at no cost to democratize the power of accelerated analytics. The enterprise-grade, hardware-accelerated analytics platform was purpose built to allow users to get to faster, deeper insights and make more data-driven decisions. The platform is capable of rendering billions of data points, enabling interactive analytics, including:
• Visual data storytelling
• Geospatial and time series exploration
• Data science and machine learning
The platform transcends the limitations of traditional business intelligence (BI) tools, enabling users to scale data and expand use cases. Users can effectively bridge space and time, effortlessly getting answers to “where” and “when” questions in data without needing to index, down sample or pre-aggregate. The platform accelerates the power of human intuition by pairing speed-of-curiosity visual exploration with deep integration into the Python data science ecosystem.
The OmniSciDB in-memory, distributed SQL database was built from the ground up to tap into the massive computational power and parallelism of modern hardware. Queries are compiled to optimized machine code that run across hundreds of CPU cores and tens of thousands of GPU cores per server and can zero-copy render or run machine learning models on the results. The result is game-changing performance: query, visualize, and power data science workflows over hundreds of billions of records, in milliseconds.
OmniSci was designed to address the problem of ever-increasing scale of data, which made it challenging for enterprises, governments and other organizations to analyze efficiently to unlock the valuable insights data contains. Traditional solutions couldn’t handle the massive scale of datasets fast enough to use it — legacy solutions either took too long to analyze or were capable of processing only a subset of the relevant information, which limited utility. OmniSci combines the fastest hardware (GPUs) and fastest software to create an interactive experience that allows analysts to explore multiple questions at once, accelerating insights.
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OmniSci has grown quickly, and marketplace enthusiasm for its solutions is accelerating. The company expanded its footprint into Asia last year following an earlier European expansion. This year, OmniSci announced a partnership with Théa — a fast-growing company that delivers connected vehicles infrastructure and telematics-based commerce solutions — to capture, analyze and visualize automotive data at scale to drive innovation. OmniSci’s accelerated analytics platform’s scalability was a key factor in the decision.
Prior to that, the company brought major new clients on board, including Procter & Gamble, HERE Technologies and the utility company Avangrid. OmniSci deepened its partnership with Z by HP to accelerate data-driven workflows and make the Z8 — the world’s most powerful workstation — even more appealing by offering it preloaded with the OmniSci platform, giving data scientists instant access to unprecedented analytics power.
Throughout the pandemic, the company has engaged in the fight against COVID-19, providing the platform to research teams across the country through the OmniSci for Good program. Every federal, state and local government is working to cope with COVID-19 and the massive amounts of data involved, and OmniSci helps these organizations make smarter, data-driven decisions. OmniSci worked in close partnership with water infrastructure analytics consulting company BlueConduit to power the Flint Service Line Map (www.flintpipemap.org), a public website that maps up-to-date information about residential water service line replacements in the city of Flint, Michigan.
OmniSci won numerous awards and accolades in 2021, including being named the best Big Data Reporting and Analytics Solution of 2021 as part of the annual SIIA CODiE Awards and being recognized as the Best Data Visualization Solution by the 2020 Tech Ascension Awards. OmniSci also participated in major conferences this year, showcasing new uses of GPU-accelerated analytics for single-cell RNA sequencing at NVIDIA GTC, demonstrating the power of massively accelerated geospatial analytics at GEOINT and highlighting multiple opportunities to accelerate geospatial and GPU database knowledge at GTC 2021.
Some of the world’s most prominent venture capital firms and strategic investors back OmniSci, including Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel, NEA, NVIDIA, Tiger Global Management, Vanedge Capital and Verizon Ventures.
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OmniSci was recognized by SIIA as the Best Big Data Reporting & Analytics Solution of 2021, demonstrating the value of the product for those looking to better analyze enormous data sets through geospatial visualization. This year, the winners of the awards were recognized for their resilience and innovation even in the face of an unprecedented challenging year. With recognition such as this, OmniSci’s platform is proven to stand out against other competitors for producing one of the most innovative business technology products across the country, and around the world.
The partnership with Théa Auto, announced in early 2021, proved OmniSci’s ability to provide a solution that would be able to expand at the same rate as Théa’s fast-growing company. Partnering with OmniSci gave Théa the tools to expand the possibilities in the connected vehicle experience with data at scale, these tools were also critical in data driven applied science for automotive and mobility sectors. OmniSci’s advanced data visualization technologies enabled Théa to better communicate its data-driven customization capabilities to existing and potential clients.
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