Think Big on Monday took the wraps off its Dashboard Engine for Hadoop, which aims to make it easier for business users to extract insights from the vast lakes of data stored in Hadoop.

The development comes hard on the heels of last week’s launch of AtScale’s Intelligence Platform, which has a similar intent.

Virtually endless streams of data from Web browsers, set-top boxes and contact centers land in Hadoop within many enterprises, but they often aren’t accessible to a company’s business users through “downstream” analytics tools, said Ron Bodkin, president of Teradata-owned Think Big.

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