20 Revolution Analytics Testimonials

"There are lots of good reasons to use Revolution Analytics in a super computer like Netezza. It’s faster and easier to program. It will speed up our computation. And, we have more data sets available to us because of how flexible and quick Revolution Analytics makes it to add and delete variables in our model."

"We find two advantages to the Revolution Analytics and IBM framework: minimization of data transfer by moving the function to the data as well as the computation speedups associated with distribution of an embarrassingly parallel problem."

“There are a few important benefits [of Revolution R Enterprise]…It’s really easy to develop and maintain for analysts. We don’t need a full time DBA to administer the IBM database appliance and don’t need a hardcore programmer to deploy our prediction functions. We’ve been able to scale our solution to a problem that’s so big that most companies could not address it. If we had to go with a different solution we wouldn’t be as efficient as we are now.”

"I use [Revolution R Enterprise] for building prototypes because it’s fast and easy to make adjustments. I can build the prototype and just let it run, because it’s very fast!"

"We use R for adaptive designs frequently because it’s the fastest tool to explore designs that interest us. Off-the-shelf software, gives you off-the-shelf options. Those are a good first order approximation, but if you really want to nail down a design, R is going to be the fastest way to do that."

"Northern Trust went to Revolution Analytics and asked if we could explore the opportunity to parallelize our Monte Carlo simulations."

"At the end of the day, our job isn’t about the programming and it isn’t about the system. It’s about getting the work done. I’m all in favor of the solution that lets me get the work done quickly and easily. We’ve been able to do something that we can’t really do otherwise. The speed is pretty remarkable."

"What takes a day to do in Excel can be done in 15 minutes by writing a few lines of R code in Revolution R Enterprise."