Analytics software maker   Karmasphere unveiled the latest version of Karmasphere Analyst Big Data today, its Hadoop-based data analytics offering.  The revamped product features a number of significant improvements, including a “highly integrated interface” that puts a big emphasis on ease-of-use, as well as a broad look into the deployment. David Menninger, VP and research director at Ventana Research pointed out the advantage in a release, noting the technology has advanced faster than some company’s workforce.

“Our recent Benchmark Research ‘Hadoop and Information Management’ indicated that while the majority of enterprises using Hadoop did so for advanced analytics, they lacked the skills and training in-house to take full advantage of Hadoop’s strategic benefits.”

The new UI has things like point-and-click navigation, a lot of visualization and other so-called power features you would normally see in a collaboration app, rather than an analytics platform.  All this allows developers to visualize results into charts and gain a deeper insight into their data, Karmasphere said. Other functions, such as the ability to retrace query histories and advanced filtering also make things easier.

Back at the Hadoop Summit, Karmasphere and Think Big Analytics said they plan on developing joint offerings that include Karmosphere’s visualization and big data ‘interaction’ technology. This was big news for the company, and Shevek Mankin, the chief technology officer of the company, sat down in theCube to brief us about Karmasphere.

Mankin gave some background about how the firm grew into a data company out of an email anti-forgery offering that requires a lot of data to be effective. He also said how this process gave Karmasphere a sort of insight into approaching solutions, and that it eventually transited from being a data provider to being a solutions provider that bases its offering on an open-source initiative – Hadoop.