Podium Data Selected as Finalist for MIT Sloan CIO Symposium’s Innovation Showcase


LOWELL, Mass., May 03, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

Podium Data, Inc. (www.podiumdata.com), provider of the industry’s first enterprise data lake management platform, has been selected as a finalist in the 13th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Innovation Showcase.

Podium Data’s data lake management platform is a practical, proven solution that enables enterprises to radically simplify the way they manage, prepare and deliver ever-growing quantities of data to business users.

“Big data and Hadoop specifically has made the leap from promising technology to practical, enterprise-ready tool that can deliver measurable ROI,” said Paul Barth, CEO and co-founder of Podium Data. “We are very pleased to be nominated by the MIT Symposium along with other great companies that are delivering real value right now to organizations around the world.”

 “We are thrilled to invite these top 10 companies to our 2016 Innovation Showcase,” said Anton Teodorescu, Co-Chair of the Innovation Showcase. “Their technologies are leading edge, and will be vital to empowering the future digital economy.”

For a full list of Innovation Showcase finalists visit  http://www.mitcio.com/innovation

The Innovation Showcase will take place at 5:30PM in the Kresge courtyard tent on Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at MIT, in Cambridge, MA. The full agenda of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is available at www.mitcio.com/agenda.

About the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is the premier global conference for CIOs and digital business executives to become more effective leaders. In one day, CIOs and senior IT executives explore enterprise technology innovations, business practices and receive actionable information that enables them to meet the challenges of today and the future. The Symposium offers a unique learning environment by bringing together the academic thought leadership of MIT with the in-the-trenches experience of leading, global CIOs and industry experts. The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is organized and developed by the MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association, the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE), and the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). Visit www.mitcio.com for more information and registration.

About Podium Data
Podium Data is redefining enterprise data management with its practical, high performance data lake management platform, Podium. Podium’s integrated software platform leverages proven big data technologies and provides secure, self-service access to business-ready data, which dramatically improves an organization’s ability to manage, act, and innovate. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, Podium’s seasoned team of entrepreneurs has deep expertise in analytics, big data and enterprise data management. A growing list of Fortune 500 companies use Podium to accelerate delivery of data to business users through a variety of enterprise scale data lake, extraction/transformation, and load migrations; and analytic projects. Visit www.podiumdata.com to learn about how Podium accelerates access to fundamental data and drives the analytics and insights required for dramatic impact or follow us on Twitter at @PodiumData. 


            

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