SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - May 3, 2016) - Trifacta, the global leader in data wrangling, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Trifacta to its 2016 Big Data 100 list. This annual list recognizes the ingenuity of tech suppliers bringing to market innovative solutions for harnessing the increasingly huge amounts of data generated in today's digital world, raising the bar for data management and challenging established IT practices. 

Businesses are constantly grappling with the exploding volume, speed and variety of information they produce and utilize on a daily basis in order to remain competitive. Solution providers are on a never-ending quest to tame this "big data" with innovative tools, technologies and services that can convert it into meaningful, usable statistics.

In response to this challenge, the CRN editorial team has identified the IT vendors at the forefront of data management, business analytics and infrastructure technologies and services. The resulting Big Data 100 list is a valuable guide for solution providers seeking out key big data technology suppliers.

Trifacta is the leading data wrangling solution for exploring and transforming diverse data. With Trifacta, business analysts are able to easily explore and prepare raw data, transforming it into clean and structured formats for analysis. Trifacta allows businesses to unlock the potential of their data by enabling analysts to more effectively work with new data sources as well as improve the efficiency of existing reporting and analytics processes.

"Big data is becoming critical for many businesses. Organizations are faced with managing information streams of unprecedented volume and complexity, and are always in need of more powerful and efficient tools for capturing, storing, organizing, securing and analyzing data to gain business insights," said Robert Faletra, CEO, The Channel Company. "We are pleased to present the Big Data 100, a list of vendors whose ingenuity and creative problem-solving are creating effective new ways to help solution providers tackle this mammoth task, challenging the status quo and keeping pace with the rapidly evolving demands of the data management field." 

"Recognition by CRN further demonstrates the value of Trifacta's industry-leading data wrangling solution. Improving the efficiency of data preparation is a critical challenge for any business trying to gain a competitive advantage through the use of data," said Adam Wilson, CEO of Trifacta. "Our goal with this breakthrough approach is to empower anyone who works with data to be able to discover, structure, clean, enrich, validate and publish data for analysis. We are thrilled to be selected for the Big Data 100 list for the second consecutive year."

The 2016 Big Data 100 list is available online at www.crn.com/bigdata100.

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

• 2016 Top End User Data Preparation Vendor by Dresner Advisory Services
• Delta-V Award winner for the big data platforms category by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)
• 2015 Ventana Research Technology Innovation award winner in the big data category
• Dresner Advisory Services 2015 Technology Innovation Award in End User Data Preparation category 
• The Channel Company's exclusive 2015 CRN® Emerging Vendors List
• 2015 Red Herring Top 100 North America Winner
• The Channel Company's 2015 CRN® Big Data 100

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About Trifacta
Trifacta, the global leader in data wrangling software, significantly enhances the value of an enterprise's big data by enabling users to easily transform and enrich 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, Cathay Innovation, Greylock Partners and Ignition Partners.

About the Channel Company
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