Yesterday, Alternet Systems, Inc. (OTCQB: ALYI) filed its
Annual Report (10-K) for the year ended December 31, 2015, with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC), which set out the background for the company’s
present focus on big data. 2015 was a turning point for Alternet Systems. The
company ‘decided to cease pursuing digital currency opportunities due to the
market collapse for digital currencies.’ Its 10-K cited the lack of a clear
regulatory framework, the entrance of ‘major players’ in the field and the
volatility of digital assets such as Bitcoin as some of the risks and
challenges in the digital currency space. Going forward, Alternet Systems will
focus on data analytic tools and services for the telecommunications and
financial services industries. To this end, earlier this year, the company
announced the launch of its Data Analytics Division, expanding its portfolio of
existing digital commerce technologies.
In a recent press release, Henryk Dabrowski, CEO of Alternet
Systems, stated, “Alternet has a successful history of developing and
commercializing young digital commerce technologies. We are now building upon
that history to develop and commercialize an expanded portfolio of new key
technologies into the burgeoning big data analytics sector… We anticipate our
new Data Analytics Division to build upon the revenue base we established in
2015 from our digital commerce operations throughout the course of 2016.”
In April 2015, the company, through subsidiary Alternet
Payment Solutions, LLC (APS), signed an agreement with R4 Technologies, LLC
(R4) to market and promote R4’s purpose-built cloud platform for micro-segment
data, insight and engagement to help brands leverage data and automate yield
optimization. APS is to partner with R4 across Latin America and the Caribbean.
R4 Technologies, according to a page (http://dtn.fm/9BX5g) on the IBM website,
‘is the first company to make data science available through a
software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for business users to increase revenue
and profitability. R4 uses an algorithmic approach to revenue yield management
to find growth hidden in massive amounts of data and then programmatically
align product, channel and promotions.’
Big data is the next big thing in the digital arena. It
involves the provision of solutions to solve three major challenges in
information technology that have come to be known as the ‘three Vs’, including
volume, variety and velocity. The first challenge is coping with the enormous
amounts of data being generated on a continual basis. Data volume is now
measured in petabytes (250 bytes) instead of terabytes (240 bytes).
ComputerWeekly.com quoted (http://dtn.fm/2cTjp) ‘Michael Chui, principal at
McKinsey (as saying) that the U.S. Library of Congress “had collected 235
terabytes of data by April 2011 and a petabyte is more than four times that.”’
The variety of data is also multiplying as web logs, social
media interactions, ecommerce transactions, financial transactions and other
sources, each sometimes in a different format, proliferate. Velocity in the
generation and hunger for this data has become gargantuan. According to
internet live stats (http://dtn.fm/pqXt9), ‘when Google was founded in
September 1998, it was serving 10,000 search queries per day’ now it ‘processes
over 40,000 search queries every second ’.
Alternet’s partnership with R4 Technologies and its cloud
platform builds a strong foundation for Alternet’s Data Analytics Division. The
company’s aim to provide data analytics as a SaaS product has as much potential
as the cloud-computing SaaS service offered by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), which
has grown into a $6.7 billion dollar business.
For more information, visit www.alternetsystems.com
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