NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--1010data, Inc., the provider of the leading hosted, big data analytics platform, today announced that they have reached an important milestone by signing The Giving Group, headquartered in London, as a client. The Giving Group operates JustGiving.com in the UK and FirstGiving.com in the US. This marks 1010data's first entry into the international marketplace.
JustGiving, the UK's first online fundraising website, has provided hosted services for fundraising, charities and gift giving for over 9,000 non-profit organizations. JustGiving has helped these groups raise over $1 billion with donations from over 12 million people since they began operation 10 years ago. Their success has driven them to expand into other regions with FirstGiving and JustGiving Japan, and to install a Global CTO, Marc Stein.
Because The Giving Group had outgrown their existing database infrastructure, with efforts to maintain and manage it getting out-of-hand and with increasingly onerous hardware requirements, they had decided to pursue alternatives. Consulting the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Appliances and investigating some of the "top-right" solutions, they were disheartened by what they saw based on the complexity of implementation, time to delivery and cost. Stein had known of 1010data from a previous position and decided to re-evaluate their strategy.
Rather than simply building upon their existing SQL database technology they decided to make a quantum change and move to a radically more advanced technology. They surveyed a full range of alternative technologies and approaches before settling upon the columnar database technology of 1010data, based upon its astounding performance combined with an amazingly short implementation time and reasonable cost.
“From the moment we saw the initial demo, we knew that 1010data's Data Analytics as a Service platform had the potential to be a game-changer for us,” commented Stein. “However, we still had skeptics among the IT ranks and we needed to see our data on the 1010data platform. Within a day of receiving our data, they had it completely loaded and were ready to give us a demo and have us fire ad-hoc questions at them. Although we were amazed by what we saw, the technical team was also running these same queries on our existing system in the background and on other solutions we were evaluating from other vendors. On average, with 1010data our queries would run in one second, while the same queries, on the nearest 1010data competitor, would run six-times slower.”
“In fact our plans now go beyond what we had originally expected because the 1010data platform allows us to quickly load data from third-party data providers and easily combine it with our own data, so we will have an incredibly powerful engine to analyze donors, their gifts and campaigns based on many new dimensions and demographics," Stein concluded.
“We are very excited to have The Giving Group as our newest client and as our first international client,” said Greg Munves, Executive Vice President. “They are a great organization, providing valuable fund raising enablement to charities and causes around the world.”
“1010data is transforming our raw data into actionable knowledge,” said Stein, “Being able to provide powerful insight to our clients is a huge goal for us. We are amazed at what 1010data could do and in such a short timeframe. We look upon 1010 as an exceptional partner.”
About 1010data
1010data is the leader in the big data analytics space. Its hosted platform provides the only complete analytics solution available today, by combining the world's fastest database with a unique and powerful user interface, and by providing the solution via world-class hosting services. 1010data's platform enables the deepest analysis, to get maximum insight directly from raw data, at a fraction of the time and cost of any other solution. Over 150 top-tier clients, including leading financial services firms, retailers, and consumer packaged goods companies rely on 1010data for everyday decision-making in many of their core business functions.
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