A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre (BATC) collaborates with Red Hat to Use open source solutions for data analytic applications development.
Witnesses and signing parties of the MOU collaboration between Red Hat and A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre. From L-R: Ang Wee Tiong, Director, Technology, BATC; Dr. Tan Geok Leng, Executive Director, Science & Engineering Research Council, A*STAR & Chairman, BATC Management Committee; Damien Wong, General Manager, ASEAN, Red Hat; Suresh Sachi, Deputy Managing Director (Corporate & Legal), General Counsel, A*STAR; Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat; Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources; Jacqueline Poh, Managing Director, IDA; Shankha Sen, Chief Financial Officer, Red Hat Asia Pacific.
Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, today announced plans for a new collaboration with A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre (BATC) to help accelerate innovation and drive adoption of business analytics with open source solutions from Red Hat.
Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, was present for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today in Singapore with Dr Tan Geok Leng, Chairman of BATC Management Committee and Executive Director for the Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC), A*STAR.
Red Hat will be collaborating with BATC in areas of big data, middleware, Platform-as-a-service (PaaS), cloud and storage, for the innovation and development of current and upcoming analytics projects.
Open source technology, such as Red Hat’s offerings, provides the reliability, scalability, as well as enterprise support required by BATC.
Big data, a key discussion at this year’s Red Hat Summit, saw a number of announcements from Red Hat, with regards to expanding its portfolio and partner ecosystems to support open, software-defined solutions, intended to handle large amounts of unstructured data.
BATC is a leading player in the strategic technology translation for big data and analytics in Singapore.
To date, a number of open source based applications for data analytics have been developed under the cross-agency initiative between the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR) and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA).
An example of BATC’s analytics application is SocialSense, a showcase application for social media monitoring and it runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
It incorporates a number of A*STAR intellectual properties in data analytics, semantic information processing, text mining and enables organizations to analyze user-generated data feeds on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, in a highly automated and intelligent fashion.
Social media posts are automatically deciphered, categorizing hot topics and analyzing topic sentiments in real-time to provide an effective qualitative and quantitative gauge on an organization’s social media standing.
To kick start the collaboration, Red Hat held an Open Innovation Symposium after the MOU signing for A*STAR scientists, researchers and academics from noted education institutions to discuss how open source technology can foster innovation and help developments in business analytics.
The guest-of-honor for the event was Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister of the Environment and Water Resources.
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