WANdisco stands for Wide Area Network Distributed Computing, and we make software happen.

This is because our technology is the secret ingredient behind the products that you use every day – from mobile phones to machinery. We are an active member of the community that develops the world’s most popular Source Code product: Subversion, and our technology is used by half of the world’s software developers.

Our customers include a host of Fortune 1000 companies such as Hewlett Packard, Intel, John Deere, European Southern Observatory, Barclays Capital, Walmart, GE and Cisco.

How it works

With our patented technology, software developers in distributed locations can work simultaneously, creating a seamless global network. Users at every site where WANdisco is installed have local access to the same data at all times, which means that they can make changes locally and see each other’s changes immediately.

We are proud to have a 98% customer renewal rate – which is driven by compelling ROI data: a recent study from Forrester Research has shown that our Subversion MultiSite offers a 167% return on investment with a nine-month payback period.

The company

Co-founded in 2005 by David Richards, Jim Campigli and Dr Yeturu Aahlad, WANdisco has dual headquarters in Silicon Valley and Sheffield, England. WANdisco grew, without raising any private equity, venture capital or angel finance to become a leading provider of global collaboration software to the software development industry.

On June 1st, 2012 the company had a highly successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange raising over $24 million. The IPO was oversubscribed by over 300% and the list of investors included Fidelity, Legal & General, Blackrock, Artemis, Hargreave Hale, Cazenove, M&G, Octopus and Standard Life. WANdisco's ticker is WAND.L


http://www.wandisco.com/

26 Nov Investec 1,275.00 Buy
26 Nov finnCap 700.00 Corporate

i wonder how investec and finncap rated QPP?
just an idle question :-)

The Wandisco client is believed to be Capital One

Big Data Win

RNS


RNS Number : 4068A

WANdisco Plc

22 December 2014










22 December 2014



WANdisco plc



Big Data Customer Win



Consumer data business dunnhumby adopts WANdisco Big Data solution





WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is pleased to announce that dunnhumby, the world's leading customer science company, has selected WANdisco's Big Data solution to support retail customer analysis. The resulting new subscription for WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop has

a value of approximately $475,000 over a three-year term.



dunnhumby pioneered retail customer analysis with Tesco Clubcard data. Today it is using Hadoop to analyse and apply insights from 700 million shoppers, enabling consumer brands

to personalise their offerings.



Following the completion of a successful production trial establishing continuously available data and a dramatic reduction in analytics processing times, dunnhumby has adopted Non-Stop Hadoop as part of its standard enterprise Hadoop architecture in live production.



This deployment is integrated with Oracle's Big Data Appliance server infrastructure and is the first one to result from WANdisco's partnership with Oracle, announced on 17 July 2014.



David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive, adds:



"Adoption of our Big Data solution by the pioneer of retail customer analysis is a great endorsement for our Non-Stop Hadoop product. I expect dunnhumby to make greater use

of WANdisco technology as it expands the scope of its new Hadoop infrastructure."

22 Dec Investec 1,275.00 Buy

22 Dec finnCap 700.00 Corporate

Signal Update

Our system’s recommendation today is to STAY LONG. The previous BUY signal was issued on 03/12/2014, 19 days ago, when the stock price was 370.5000. Since then WAND.L has risen by +24.83%.

Market Outlook

The bulls are in full control. The negative sentiment that led to the last bearish pattern has evaporated. Besides, the signal is suggesting to STAY LONG. It is best to follow the signal and continue to hold this security.


https://www.britishbulls.com/SignalPage.aspx?lang=en&Ticker=WAND.L

Big Data Will Get Even Bigger In 2015

Thanks to the Internet of Things.



http://readwrite.com/2014/12/26/big-data-will-get-bigger-in-2015

Nice chart.

Dec Investec and finnCap look like they have the target spot on.

believe it when those target levels are hit and held .... confess i got burnt on this one in earlyish 2014, but got out

2014 has seen the share head south. 2013 was fantastic, perhaps the share of the year . Big data is just taking longer than expected to develop.

Up 30p to 505p 'Mid' this morning, as I type. I'm now looking for just a bit more confirmation to show this is going to go on to around the £6 mark - which would be a very useful gain of 20%......



More News like today's RNS on a Big Data management contract with British Gas will obviously help things along. Looks like things are finally taking off now:

Big Data contract win

RNS

RNS Number : 5944B
WANdisco Plc
08 January 2015

Big Data contract win

British Gas scales up its WANdisco Big Data solution

British Gas, the UK's largest utilities and home services provider, has significantly scaled up its WANdisco (LSE: WAND) Big Data solution for live customer-facing operations. The resulting new three-year subscription is WANdisco's largest Big Data deal to date, with a value of $750,000.

An initial trial deployment of WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop (announced on 20 March 2014) enabled British Gas to capture real-time data from over a million household Smart Meters, to demonstrate cost savings in data storage and processing, and to minimise data loss and downtime in compliance with regulations. WANdisco was able to demonstrate performance and scale that otherwise could not have been achieved.

Non-Stop Hadoop is now going into live production, with the amount of data under management scaled up to more than twice its original level. Real-time analytics from the 'Connected Homes' programme will bring benefits such as dynamic matching of energy supply with demand patterns.

Across the whole British Gas data infrastructure, Non-Stop Hadoop accelerates the transformation to a consolidated and available body of management information, for which data centre storage and processing will be handled more efficiently and less expensively.

David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive, comments:

"Customers see our Hadoop technology as critical for enterprise big data deployments. Enlarging our footprint with existing customers like British Gas, in addition to gathering new customers, is a very important part of our strategy. This deal clearly demonstrates our ability to expand a small initial big data deployment into a much larger deal."

A full update on fourth quarter sales bookings will be released on 19 January.

For further information please contact:

WANdisco plc
via FTI Consulting
David Richards, Chief Executive Officer
Paul Harrison, Chief Financial Officer
Phil Branston, VP Corporate Development & Investor Relations

FTI Consulting
+44 (0)20 3727 1000
Matt Dixon / Rob Mindell / Roger Newby

Investec (Joint Broker and NOMAD)
+44 (0)20 7597 4000
Chris Baird / Dominic Emery

UBS Investment Bank (Joint Broker)
+44 (0)20 7567 8000
Rahul Luthra / Sandip Dhillon

About WANdisco
(LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today's data challenges of secure storage, scalability and continuous availability. WANdisco's products are differentiated by the company's patented, active-active data replication technology, serving crucial continuous availability requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), including Apache Subversion and Git. Fortune Global 1000 companies, including Juniper Networks, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton, rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.

Disclaimer
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that are based on current expectations or beliefs, as well as assumptions about future events. Undue reliance should not be placed on any such statements because they are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties and can be affected by other factors that could cause actual results, and WANdisco's plans and objectives, to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. WANdisco undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statement contained within this announcement, regardless of whether those statements are affected as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, save as required by law and regulations.

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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Every day its a buy.

8 Jan Investec 1,275.00 Buy
8 Jan finnCap 700.00 Corporate

Companies are just beginning to understand the need for big data.

UKHotViews©


Thursday 08 January 2015

British Gas goes live with WANdisco Big Data

Organisations are not prepared to take big data promises on trust and want proof of value before committing heavily to this area of technology, which is why 2013/14 was a period for proof of concept activity. The hope is that 2015 will see many of those PoC projects convert to enterprise implementations. On that basis, the year got off to a good start for big data infrastructure provider WANdisco because British Gas has converted its March 2014 trial deployment of Non-Stop Hadoop, which captured real time data from over 1m Smart Meters and delivered savings in data storage and processing, and is going into live production with a scaled up solution.

British Gas has taken out a three year subscription, worth $750,000. That makes it WANdisco’s largest big data deal to date, although big data revenue is a tiny proportion of overall revenue which was $5m in H1. The company has been adding to its big data customer list over the past six months or so however (see the HotViews coverage here), providing welcome signs of momentum on this side of the business but it is coming at a cost. As of its H1 update, losses were mounting and cash burn was increasing and we can see costs and losses rising further as WANdisco invests in technology and customer acquisition. PoC conversion will also come at a cost but will also generate revenue and move the big data business into its next phase of development.

should hit 700 to 800 before y/e

WANdisco co-founder believes company will be as big as the likes of Oracle and Microsoft

WANdisco’s market capitalisation now almost £300 million



http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/wandisco-co-founder-believes-company-will-be-as-big-as-the-likes-of-oracle-and-microsoft-1.2030330

Where should government start with Big Data?



The following article is based on a presentation given by Eddie Copeland at London City Hall for WANdisco’s Big Data Breakfast on 13 January 2015.


http://policybytes.org.uk/government-start-big-data/

siliconANGLE » Deutsche Bank study finds Hadoop rapidly gaining enterprise traction


Deutsche Bank study finds Hadoop rapidly gaining enterprise traction
Maria Deutscher | January 14th



Happy elephantNew data from Deutsche Bank Group AG suggests that the explosive adoption of Hadoop will have a tangible impact on enterprise technology spending in 2015. The research counters some recent dour assessments of Hadoop’s enterprise-readiness and should put a smile on the faces of vendors pushing the bandwagon.

Standing to gain the most from increased investments in Hadoop are the distributors commercializing the project. Hortonworks Inc., which is one of the top players in that space and the first to hit the stock exchange, saw its revenue more than quadruple in 2014 from the previous year – momentum that Deutsche Bank’s report suggests is only set to increase over the next 12 months.

Nearly half of the technology leaders that the German investment powerhouse surveyed indicated that Hadoop plays a role in their analytics plans, with implementations varying from prototype deployments to full-blown production clusters powering business processes. The differences are even more pronounced among sectors.

The chief executive officer of a major retailer told Deutsche Bank that he is experimenting with the framework to analyze supply chain and security operations, while another participant from a global telco was working on a full-blown business intelligence solution. And the financial services giant is itself in the advance stages of implementing Hadoop, an initiative that has admittedly had its fair share of legacy impediments, which is hardly uncommon.

The issues involved in deploying the platform on an organizational scale are gradually fading as practitioners become more familiar with the framework and vendors like Hortonworks continue to improve their solutions. That should not only help drive adoption among the more than half of large enterprises that the survey indicates have not yet jumped on the bandwagon but also move more existing deployments from pilot to production.

Once an organization makes the leap, the revenue potential for vendors begins to grow exponentially. The additional software licenses and professional services that the CIO needs to buy from their distributor in order to scale their environment represent only the tip of the iceberg. There is an equally substantial, if not bigger, opportunity for the partners providing the value-added offerings needed to implement advanced production applications on top of Hadoop.

Overall, Deutsche Bank sees organizations spending considerably more on the framework in 2015 than before. The question is which players will take greatest advantage of the opportunity.