Microsoft has purchased Revolution Analytics -- a provider of software and services for the R programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics -- for an undisclosed amount.
Revolution Analytics provides an "enterprise-class platform" for developing and deploying R-based analytic solutions that can scale across large data warehouses and Hadoop systems, and which can integrate with enterprise systems, according to Microsoft's blog post. Revolution R customers include banks, financial services organizations, pharmaceutical companies, consulting companies, and manufacturing and technology companies.
Revolution Analytics company contributes to open source R projects such as ParallelR and RHadoop, as well. Microsoft will continue to support and evolve the open source and commercial distributions of Revolution R across multiple operating systems, including Mac and Linux, Microsoft officials said.
In 2013, Revolution Analytics signed a Hadoop partnership with Hortonworks, with Revolution developing so-called "in-Hadoop" predictive analytics to avoid importing and exporting data from Hadoop.
The Revolution Analytics team plans to continue to support the free Revolution R Open Project and will continue to offer technical support for R with Revolution R Plus subscriptions, officials with the Mountain View, Calif., company said in a blog post today.