Alpine Data Labs
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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | San Mateo, California 2011 |
| Founders | Anderson Wong & Yi-Ling Chen |
| Headquarters | , USA |
Key people | Dan Udoutch, President & CEO Steven Hillion, Chief Product Officer |
| Services | Advanced Analytics on Hadoop and Big Data |
Number of employees | 45 (As of October 2013) |
| Website | www |
Alpine Data Labs specializes in delivering advanced analytics solutions tailored for Apache Hadoop and big data environments. The company provides a collaborative visual platform designed to facilitate the creation and deployment of analytics workflows and predictive modeling. This platform is specifically intended for business analysts, eliminating the need for proficiency in programming languages such as MapReduce or Pig, thereby promoting wider adoption of big data analytics across sales and other business units.
The firm’s strategy centers on demystifying complex data science procedures to improve decision-making processes and operational performance. Alpine Data Labs has secured substantial funding, including a $16 million investment round aimed at accelerating both growth and product innovation.
Under the leadership of Dan Udoutch, who holds the roles of president and CEO, the company pursues strategic development and innovation. Established in 2011 by Anderson Wong and Yi-Ling Chen, Alpine Data Labs is headquartered in San Francisco, California, employing around 45 staff members as of 2013.
History
Founded in 2010 by former Greenplum employees Anderson Wong and Yi-Ling Chen, Alpine Data Labs initially developed an application to interact with databases utilized by EMC's Data Science team and early adopters within Financial Services and Digital Media sectors. During that year, the company secured $7.5 million in Series A funding from investors including EMC Greenplum, Sierra Ventures, Mission Ventures, and Sumitomo Corp. Equity Asia to establish its base in San Mateo, California. Steven Hillion, previously Greenplum’s Data Science lead, joined Alpine as Chief Product Officer. The flagship product, Alpine Miner, empowered users without data science backgrounds to build predictive models without writing code by leveraging an "In-Database" methodology. In June 2011, Alpine Miner 2.0 was launched with support for Oracle Database.
Tom Ryan served as CEO from January 2012 until April 2013, after which Joe Otto assumed the position. In November 2013, Alpine completed a $16 million Series B funding round backed by Sierra Ventures, Mission Ventures, UMC Capital, and Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH. That same month marked the debut of Alpine 3.0, which introduced a drag-and-drop interface along with device-independent access to data stored in Hadoop and other databases without requiring IT assistance. Late in 2013, the company moved its headquarters to San Francisco and enhanced its platform by adding features for enterprise collaboration and governance.
By February 2014, Alpine earned recognition as a "Niche Player" within the Gartner Magic Quadrant, subsequently progressing to the "Visionary" category. The platform was further developed to include integration with the R programming language and compatibility with all major Hadoop distributions as well as relational database systems.
In November 2017, Alpine Data Labs was acquired by TIBCO Software, representing a strategic move to broaden TIBCO’s analytics portfolio.