Trifacta Named to CRN Big Data 100

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - May 5, 2015) - Trifacta, the leading data wrangling solution for exploratory analytics, today announced it has been named to The Channel Company's 2015 CRN® Big Data 100. The annual list recognizes companies that bring innovative tools, technologies and services to market, helping organizations productively manage, process and analyze the increasing volume of information being generated today.

"When it comes to selecting building block technologies for big data solutions, channel partners need a dependable resource they can rely on to identify the key tools available," said Robert Faletra, CEO, The Channel Company. "We congratulate the vendors of the CRN Big Data 100 for their innovation and commitment to helping businesses manage the big data challenge."

Businesses continue to struggle with exploding volumes, speed and variety of information being generated, and solution providers are looking to tame that "big data" with solutions that help customers turn it all into meaningful statistics. Understanding this challenge, the CRN editorial team has identified key vendors that are bringing innovative business analytics, data management, and infrastructure technologies and services to market.

"Today, anyone who works with data, from business analysts to data scientists, needs a better way to prepare data of all different shapes and sizes for analysis. Trifacta simplifies the work required to prepare data for analysis, making data useful more quickly and with less effort than any other solution," said Adam Wilson, CEO of Trifacta. "We're honored to be named to CRN's Big Data 100 list. This recognition provides great validation for our mission to create radical productivity for people who analyze data."

Trifacta is the leading vendor in the emerging self-service data preparation market and recently earned the highest ranking among 26 vendors in the first Market Study on End User Data Preparation conducted by Dresner Advisory Services. By removing the inefficiencies and technical requirements of data preparation, Trifacta provides a breakthrough approach that empowers the people with the greatest context on the data to directly discover, structure, clean, enrich and distill it for analysis.

The 2015 Big Data 100 list is featured online at www.CRN.com, and will be published in the June issue of CRN.

Over the past year, Trifacta has received recognition in numerous market studies and top vendor rankings, including the following:

• #1 Ranked End User Data Preparation Vendor by Dresner Advisory Services
• 10 Hot Hadoop Startups to Watch by CIO Magazine
• 30 Big Data Companies Leading the Way by Datamation
• 10 Coolest Big Data Products of 2014 by CRN
• The Big Data 50 by Startup50.com

About Trifacta
Trifacta, the leading data wrangling solution for exploratory analytics, significantly enhances the value of an enterprise's big data by enabling users to easily transform raw, complex data into clean and structured formats for analysis. Leveraging decades of innovative work in human-computer interaction, scalable data management and machine learning, Trifacta's unique technology creates a partnership between user and machine, with each side learning from the other and becoming smarter with experience. Trifacta is backed by Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, and Ignition Partners.

About The Channel Company
The Channel Company, with established brands including CRN^®, XChange^® Events, IPED^® and SharedVue^®, is the channel community's trusted authority for growth and innovation. For more than three decades, we have leveraged our proven and leading-edge platforms to deliver prescriptive sales and marketing solutions for the technology channel. The Channel Company provides Communication, Recruitment, Engagement, Enablement, Demand Generation and Intelligence services to drive technology partnerships. Learn more at www.thechannelcompany.com.