Kyligence Joins the OpenPOWER Foundation to Foster OLAP on Big Data Solutions to Community-Driven Hardware Innovation

Shanghai, China, July 24, 2018 - Kyligence, a leading data intelligence company, today announced the company has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community based on the POWER microprocessor architecture.  

The OpenPOWER Foundation, founded in 2013 with 340 members expanding across 34 countries, is an open technical community based on the POWER architecture, enabling collaborative development and opportunity for member differentiation and industry growth. The goal of the OpenPOWER Foundation is to create an open ecosystem, using the POWER Architecture to share expertise, investment, and server-class intellectual property to serve the evolving needs of customers and industry.

Figure 1 OpenPOWER, a growing ecosystem

Kyligence flagship product Kyligence Enterprise, powered by Apache Kylin, brings instant insights on massive datasets for business users and data analysts. With cutting-edge machine learning technology and intelligent data modeling functionality, it greatly improves the productivity of big data analytics. Kyligence Enterprise is currently adopted by industry leaders including China Mobile，China Unicom, China UnionPay, China Pacific Insurance Group, Huawei, OPPO, and SAIC.

Within the OpenPOWER foundation, Kyligence has a special interest in working in the areas of building highly scalable big data computing solution on top of the POWER hardware and software. Open standard, like those being utilized by OpenPOWER, are critical to enterprise IT innovation, offering a common set of guidelines for the integration, implementation, and security of new technologies. With Kyligence Enterprise, a modernized Big Data platform, Kyligence will complement the performance of Power Systems by allowing clients to quickly gain business insights from their structured and unstructured data. Kyligence as one of the startups that build cutting-edge technology is now part of the Open standard. Jointly with OpenPOWER foundation members, Kyligence will build the de-facto enterprise IT standard today and in the future.

“We’re pleased to be a part of rapidly expanding OpenPOWER, and look forward to collaborating with all community members”, said Billy Liu, Vice President of Partner & Ecosystem of Kyligence, Power’s open architecture – built to deliver superior performance on Big Data and cloud workloads – combines with Kyligence’s big data product, we can bring incredible big data solution with high performance on large-scale data to enterprises.

“The development model of the OpenPOWER Foundation is one that elicits collaboration and represents a new way of exploiting and innovating around processor technology,” says Ze Shao Zhou, Senior Business Development Manager of IBM. “With the Power architecture designed for Big Data and Cloud, new OpenPOWER Foundation members like Kyligence will be able to add their own innovations on top of the technology to create new applications that capitalize on emerging workloads.”

About Kyligence

Kyligence Inc. is a leading data intelligence company which focuses on big data analytic technology innovation. It is founded by the team who created Apache Kylin, a leading open source extreme OLAP for Big Data project. Kyligence is offering on-premises big data analytic platform- Kyligence Enterprise and its cloud product - Kyligence Cloud.

Dual-headquartered in Shanghai China and Santa Clara USA. Kyligence has strong backing from leading VCs, including Redpoint, Cisco, China Broadband Capital, Shunwei Capital and Eight Roads Ventures (the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International Limited)