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Why Revolution Analytics?

The commercial layer around open source R, from 2007 to the Microsoft acquisition.

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Why Revolution Analytics?

With over 2 million users and growing, the open source programming language known as "R" has emerged as the new de facto standard for computational statistics and predictive analytics.

Since 2007 Revolution Analytics has worked to foster growth and learning within the R Community, as well as actively supporting the needs of the increasing ranks of commercial users.

Our flagship Revolution R software and services suite is the innovative leader in Big Data, enterprise analytics. Powered by the R language, Revolution R is used by enterprises with massive data, performance and multi-platform requirements who need to drive down the cost of Big Data.

The suite includes Revolution R Open, a free, enhanced open-source R distribution. Revolution R Plus adds a subscription-based technical support and indemnification package to Open. Revolution R Enterprise delivers parallelized analytics to the heart of Big Data platforms including data warehouses and Hadoop. Revolution R Cloud is available, on-demand through the AWS Marketplace.

We partner with our customers to help them develop the skills necessary for today and design the programs to assist with fulfilling the promise of tomorrow. Our AdviseR consulting services and technical support deliver the expertise necessary to quickly and effectively install, develop, and deploy advanced, R-based analytics within today’s complex and diverse data architectures. Our AcademyR training services allow you to develop the skills of your people.

Two dates that define the company

2007

Founded as REvolution Computing, providing support and services for R in a model similar to Red Hat’s approach with Linux, plus bolt-on additions for parallel processing.

2010

The company changed its name to Revolution Analytics and its focus: Revolution R free for academic users, commercial software aimed at big data, high-performance computing and multi-core.

2015

Microsoft announced on 23 January 2015 that it had agreed to acquire Revolution Analytics; the deal completed that April.

What happened next

Under Microsoft the technology became part of Microsoft R Server and the Microsoft R Application Network. In 2021 Microsoft announced it would retire the R distribution it acquired, and in 2023 it retired the Microsoft R Application Network.