Scalytics to accelerate enterprise AI adoption

Scalytics, the new name of DataBloom AI, founded in 2022, just participated to The IT Press Tour in Malta and we had the chance to meet its CEO and founder, Alexander Alten-Lorenz.

The project was initiated by a group of recognized industry experts, see below, all active within the Apache Software Foundation. So far the company has 6 employees associated with 20-25 students. The company is elf bootstrapped and should raise more money in the future to accelerate its development.

The idea came from the proliferation of independent AI and ML engines without any connection between them and finally optimized results and associated infrastructure. And as a side effect, costs explode.

The firm develops an enterprise software named Scalytics Connect that, as its names states, connects diverse AI engines to various data processing platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks or Confluent to name a few. The last version is 1.2 announced a few days ago. The movement of data is very complex and takes time due to large, very large volumes. So an alternative approach is needed and it will continue to be a tough task to do. This is key to benefit from AI globally at the enterprise level. Access is also an second mandatory features that needs to be seriously considered.

In a nutshell, the last release introduces key features:

• Federated Machine Learning to allow models to be trained on various platforms without migrating or copying data, it could be connected to Apache Spark, TensorFlow, and to JDBC compliant solution, with native code integration,
• Traceability and Auditability to deliver fine-grain log access and training processes,
• Enhanced Performance with a new runtime to reduce complexity and time in development and integration,
• Broader Compatibility and more are coming to be considered as an universal approach.
  
  

The performance benchmark to measure the impact of such an approach illustrates the gain with x150 time reduction for a dataset of 3TB.

Scalytics is open source and leverages partners to penetrate accounts such as NTT Data, Google Cloud or even ESA.  The company has launched its partner program a few weeks ago targeting MSPs, CSPs and of course ISVs.

Open source is a philosophy, a culture, some people even say a religion,  and very difficult to displace once adopted. Scalytics is the initiator of the incubated Apache project Wayang started in 2022.

The revenue started to take off promoting a subscription model and appears to be small as of today.

We'll learn more soon I think.