Company Announces New Brand to Support End-to-End Platform for Streaming Data Integration and Streaming Analytics; Fall Release of Striim Platform

PALO ALTO, CA, September 14, 2015 – WebAction, Inc. today announced that it has rebranded its software as Striim™ (pronounced “stream”), the streaming integration and intelligence platform. The platform remains the same enterprise-strength, end-to-end streaming data integration and operational intelligence solution that has been generally available from WebAction for the past year. The new brand will help communicate the dependency that streaming analytics has on streaming data integration. Product advances in the Fall release of the Striim platform further highlight customer need for both integration and intelligence.

“Drawing on their deep data integration experience, the WebAction team realized that the real challenge of streaming analytics would be in the real-time collection and processing of streaming data,” said John Myers, managing research director at Enterprise Management Associates. “With this in mind, I think “Striim” better conveys what their solution is all about – real-time data acquisition combined with analytical processing, data visualizations and alerting on data in-motion.”

Striim uniquely combines both streaming integration and streaming intelligence in a single platform. The Striim platform can ingest high-speed streaming data from a wide variety of sources – including change data from enterprise databases – and deliver them to many different types of systems within milliseconds. While the data is moving, enterprises can filter, transform, aggregate and enrich it at-speed, organizing it in-memory before it lands on disk.

When deeper insights are needed, the Striim platform enables correlation of streaming information, anomaly detection, and the ability to identify interesting events and patterns while the data is in-motion. All this information can be stored, visualized through real-time streaming dashboards, and used to immediately trigger alerts and workflows.

The Fall release of the Striim platform offers significant advances in support of both streaming integration and streaming analytics.

Continuing the strategy to integrate with open source solutions, the platform now offers:

• Support for Kafka as target message queue. Many companies are looking to Kafka to serve as a messaging backbone. In addition to reading from Kafka, Striim users can now write to a Kafka message queue. More granular functionality includes writing to a Kafka topic and partitions. Striim formatters enable users to build applications and deliver output in a simple declarative manner, out-of-the-box.
• Hadoop/HDFS dynamic file management. Not only can Striim write to Hadoop, but it can also take advantage of Hadoop’s distributed file system, and easily write across the cluster to multiple nodes. Striim enables a clever partitioning scheme from all sources into HDFS. Parallel file creation allows users to write and create multiple files in parallel, while criteria can be based on the streaming event data itself. This is important for handling different partitioning schemes.
• Support for Hive as a target. In addition to pulling data from Hive, the Striim DBMS writer component can also directly write to Hive tables and partitions, enabling faster access to Hive data.

The focus for streaming analytics and operational intelligence is on:

• Advanced event correlation. The Striim platform’s easy-to-use pattern matching operator leverages simplified rules and regular expressions to create custom correlation logic. Users can define patterns that look for a specific sequence of events within a single stream, or across multiple streams from various sources, occurring within a certain timeframe.
• Optimizations for fast query of large caches.

At the platform level, Striim also introduces a Health Monitoring Object that offers access to vital signs – including cluster, application, server and state changes – for proactive monitoring via a RESTful API. This facilitates integration into existing monitoring frameworks.  For increased security, Striim users can now encrypt data as it’s flowing into the cluster.

WebAction also announced today a round of $20 million in Series B funding, led by Intel Capital.

For more details regarding the Striim platform, please visit triim.com or our blog at triim.com/blog/.

Editorial Note:

WebAction will have a presence at TDWI in San Diego on September 20-25, and Strata + Hadoop World in New York City on September 29-October 1.

On October 7 at 11am Pacific, please join WebAction and guest speaker, Mike Gualtieri, Forrester Research principal analyst covering Big Data strategy, for a look at the evolution of streaming analytics, and how a new focus on streaming integration changes the landscape. Register here.

About WebAction, Inc.

WebAction makes data useful the instant it’s born. The company provides the Striim™ platform, the only end-to-end streaming integration and intelligence solution. Striim enables multi-stream data integration and real-time Change Data Capture (CDC) across a wide variety of data sources including transactions from enterprise databases, events, log files, application and IoT sensor data. With data pipelines in-place, the Striim platform makes streaming analytics easy. Enterprises can detect anomalies, identify and visualize events of interest, and trigger alerts and workflows – all in-time and in-context. Based in Palo Alto, CA, WebAction was founded by the core team at GoldenGate Software (acquired by Oracle in 2009), and is backed by leading investors including Summit Partners, Panorama Point Partners, Frank Caufield, Regis McKenna, and Intel Capital.

For more information on WebAction and the Striim platform, please visit www.striim.com, or follow @striimteam.

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