Name: Frontline Systems Inc. URL: www.solver.com<http://www.solver.com/>
Description: * We built an interface between Microsoft Excel and Apache Spark - bringing Big Data from the clusters to Excel enabling tools ranging from simple charts and Power View dashboards to add-ins for machine learning and predictive analytics, Monte Carlo simulation and risk analysis, and linear and nonlinear optimization. Using Spark Core API and Spark SQL to draw representative samples and summarize large datasets, it's now possible to extract "actionable small data" from a Big Data cluster, and make it usable by business analysts who lack programming expertise. * See our blog post<http://www.solver.com/xlminer-and-big-data-predicting-airline-flight-delays> presenting the analysis of 20+ years of airline flight data using Excel only
