Microsoft to acquire Revolution R software company to strengthen power of R

Deepanshu Bhalla
Microsoft announced today that it will acquire Revolution Analytics. Revolution Analytics is an open-source analytics company with a strong focus on the highly popular R programming language for statistical computing. It offers numerous tools around the R language for free but charges for services like consulting, technical support, training and big data toolkit packages. The company also offers an enterprise extension to R that allows for parallelized analytics and a cloud-based service that is available on demand through Amazon’s AWS Marketplace.

Microsoft says that it made this acquisition “to help more companies use the power of R and data science to unlock big data insights with advanced analytics.”. Check out microsoft blog.

Currently, the "R" software is being used by over 2 million users and growing. It has achieved a dominant position by public acceptance of data science and predictive analytics professionals.
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Deepanshu Bhalla

Deepanshu founded ListenData with a simple objective - Make analytics easy to understand and follow. He has over 10 years of experience in data science. During his tenure, he worked with global clients in various domains like Banking, Insurance, Private Equity, Telecom and HR.

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