Accion Labs
Accion Labs Makes Foray Into Big Data

The biggest challenge organizations face today is not just the technical competency, but a fundamental shift in how they view their data, its structure, the usage scenarios and redefining the roles and responsibilities of the IT and user organizations.

Founded in 2011, Accion Labs' Big Data practice assists organizations in both strategic upstream activities such as evaluating and developing Big Data roadmap to implementation and support in large environments. The organization is helping companies conceptualize, design, develop and deploy commercial software products in the emerging technologies such as Web 2.0, SaaS, Cloud, Open-source, BI/DW, Mobile and Big Data.

With the use of tools like Hadoop, NoSQL Databases and Advanced Search Technologies, Accion Labs delivers incomparable solutions to the problems of Big Data. Along with sophisticated team of Big Data architects, data scientists, PMs and consultants trained at leading Big Data user firms such as Google, Yahoo and Facebook, the company offers a balanced mix of strategy, design and implementation expertise.

This world class solutions have helped Accion Labs provide Big Data solutions to a range of industries such as media, telecom, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, chemical aviation and retail industries. "The way we approach the Big Data market is different from other players. We not only provide solutions to their problems, but also help them understand Big Data and its tools. This helps our customer’s resources understand technologies and get real experience of implementing Big Data tools." says Kinesh Doshi, CEO of Accion Labs.

For instance, the company developed an ETL and analytic environment for a large retail/supply chain firm to analyze their POS data with over 100TB of data collected from 20 different channels using Hadoop MapReduce programs over HDFS repository. With the help of NoSQL solution, Accion labs deliver flexible databases with world-class authentication, authorization and agility that allow organizations to quickly and easily derive and deliver value from their vast stores of Big Data.

Data Analytics can be a game changer for businesses

Accion's Big Data team has built several “packaged” solutions to automate the deployment and support of Hadoop environments. The skillful team at Accion developed a CRM Analytic tool to analyze call-center logs for a leading telecom firm. With a strong foundation of Linux administration, the team was able to handle installing, configuring, maintaining, monitoring and troubleshooting of Hadoop clusters.

"Data Analytics can be a game changer for businesses. However, the diversity of sources of data, lack of consistency of data definition and lack of ownership of data quality hasstalled many data analytics projects. Through Accion team’s experience of delivering hundreds of projects in range of industries, functional areas and technology platforms – organizations can finally realize the value of data without reinvesting the wheel or loosing valuable time," says Doshi.

Accion labs see Big Data initiative to continue to grow as more companies adopt the techniques and tools employed for managing and leveraging their data assets. "Big Data solutions have been one of the strongest offerings provided by Accion labs from past three years. It has been contributing to the large portion of the company’s revenue and Accion Labs will continue to focus on Hadoop, NoSQL Databases and advanced search technologies and other Big Data core technologies," iterates Doshi. The company envisions partnering with more upcoming clients and building software products for the next generation as well.