Gartner's 2013 Cool Vendor in Analytics report is now available.

We're pretty excited about earning a cool-factor nod from Gartner with its Cool Vendors in Analytics¹, 2013 report.  Each year, Gartner identifies a select number of new Cool Vendors in key technology areas and publishes a series of research reports explaining companies that offer technologies or solutions that are innovative, impactful, and intriguing. According to the report, five vendors were chosen from a shortlist of 15 vendors nominated by analysts in Gartner's analytics research community.

We never really thought of ourselves as cool, but we're sure glad somebody does! Gartner, Inc. has named us a "Cool Vendor" in its Cool Vendors in Analytics, 2013 report. Each year, Gartner identifies a select number of new Cool Vendors in key technology areas and publishes a series of research reports highlighting these companies and their products and services. For the Analytics designation, Gartner evaluated dozens of potential candidates to whittle it down to five final designees.

 OSGS Recognized in Safety & Security Category

NEW YORK, NY, March 22, 2013 — IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program has named Opera Solutions Government Services (OSGS) as one of its 2013 Laureates. IDG’s award honors visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic, and educational change.

NEW YORK, N.Y., Nov. 15, 2012 — Opera Solutions, LLC, a leading global Big Data science company, today announced that it has been selected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide advanced analytics to enhance operational controls and prevent fraud in federally funded Health Insurance Exchange Operations (“HIX”) managed by CMS’ Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO). Opera Solutions will apply its unique healthcare claims data anomaly detection experience, in tandem with its extensive origination/eligibility and fraud detection expertise, to support CMS’ rollout of the Exchanges that begins in January 2014.

ATLANTA, G.A., Nov. 13, 2012 — LexisNexis Risk® Solutions today announced that Opera Solutions, LLC, a leading global Big Data science company, has chosen HPCC Systems®, an open-source, enterprise-proven platform for Big Data analysis and processing, as one of the processing components in its Vektor™ Big Data platform. Opera Solutions, whose global customers are in data-rich industries, will leverage the HPCC Systems’ platform to rapidly process and analyze large internal and external data.

NEW YORK, N.Y. & RADNOR, P.A., Nov. 5, 2012 — Opera Solutions, LLC, a leading global Big Data Science company, and QlikTech (NASDAQ: QLIK), a leader in Business Discovery — user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), today announced the two companies have reached an OEM agreement. Under the agreement, QlikTech's industry-leading in-memory associative search technology will be incorporated into select applications developed by Opera Solutions as part of its Signal Hub™ Suite and related Signal Apps.

NASHVILLE, T.N. & NEW YORK N.Y., Oct. 23, 2012 — Digital Reasoning™, the leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, today announced a partnership with Opera Solutions, the leading global Big Data science company. This integration will expand Opera Solutions’ Signal Hub technology to include unstructured text analytics from Digital Reasoning’s Synthesys, providing a comprehensive Big Data solution for innovative enterprises.

NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 10, 2012 — A research report published today by Opera Solutions found that Texas — one of the best performing housing markets since the onset of the credit crisis — also pays one of the highest weighted average coupon rates on its mortgages, representing one of the most significant mispricing of risks in the Non-Agency RMBS marketplace. The finding came from the analytics firm’s inaugural edition of Mobiuss Market View, a monthly market commentary covering the private label RMBS marketplace.

AUSTIN, T.X., Oct. 2, 2012 — Pervasive Software® Inc. (Nasdaq: PVSW), a global leader in cloud-based and on-premises data innovation, today announced Opera Solutions, LLC, a world innovator in using advanced analytics to extract and use predictive information from Big Data, is leveraging Pervasive DataRush™ in its technology stack.