Capabilities
At B23, we build high value Big Data and Cloud analytics solutions that bring data closer to the consumer for analysis.
We understand that in today’s fast paced business environment organizations don’t have time to waste waiting on IT. B23 empowers the enterprise to ingest raw data and rapidly transform it to competitive intelligence.
Focus
PRODUCTIZATION AND RESALE OF DATA
At B23 we believe all businesses are data businesses, and that there is unrecognized value in every organizations’ data. B23 can help your business create and build custom data pipelines to acquire new data. B23 can help your business transform and productize data for resale to access new markets and business opportunities.
Predictive Analytics
It is critical for businesses in every industry to identify trends, interpret business performance, and calculate risk. B23 can help your business understand the most meaningful data, and build the predictive analytics you need to understand your customers and gain competitive intelligence.
INTERNET OF ANYTHING
The production of data has exploded. Don’t let valuable information and data go uncollected and unanalyzed. B23 can help you make sense of the data generated by IoT devices, giving your organization and customers valuable real-time insight.
ADVERTISING AND MEDIA
In Adtech and Media, speed and responsiveness to customers and partners are critical. Whether it is Audience Management, Demand-side and Supply-side Platforms, or integrated analytics systems, B23 understands the technologies that will best give you the competitive intelligence to target customers.
Platforms
VISUALIZATION
B23 is well versed with many open source JavaScript and commercial visualization applications that enable analysts, data scientists and stakeholders to collaborate and make informed decisions.
ANALYTICAL PROCESSING FRAMEWORKS (ALGORITHMS)
B23 helps scale our customers’ custom algorithms on platforms that meet their data size and temporal requirements. We assist implementing algorithms for real-time, micro-batch, and batch processing requirements.
DATA STREAMING AND INGEST
B23 uses modern data ingest and streaming technologies to get data from its source to where it can be analyzed. We select the right technology to meet source requirements, data types, throughput, latency, and analytical framework requirements.
DATA ACCESS
The nexus between infrastructure and data is what B23 calls the data access layer. B23 uses a variety of applications that are best suited for our customers’ data structure, scheme, scalability, durability, and analytical requirements.
INFRASTRUCTURE ABSTRACTION
Infrastructure abstraction and resource management helps organizations use their existing resources more efficiently. Abstracting resources across Cloud providers, compute clusters, or even single machines empowers our customers to gain more control in deciding how to best manage their infrastructure.
PROGRAMMABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
Programmable Infrastructure is the key foundation to building dynamic and automated analytical platforms. B23 uses Cloud Application Programmable Interfaces (API’s) and Software Development Kits (SDK’s) to automate the management of software defined networks, software defined storage, and virtualized machines.
Recent Media
Analytical Journey: Focus on data, not infrastructure: Three things to look for, three things to avoid.
By Brad Kolarov Published in the July/August Edition of Analytics Magazine With the continued hype from so many big data companies, it is hard to understand the best way to start down the big data analytics path. After all, the reason we use big data software... read moreThe Modern Data Economy – Part III of III: Scaling in the Data Economy
Dave Hirko is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of both B23 and Stackspace. Prior to co-founding both companies, Dave was an Account Executive at Amazon Web Services. Iterative Spark Development Previously, we discussed how Apache Spark and its SparkSQL module... read moreAbout Us
B23 LEADERSHIP
We started B23 (“Bee” “Two” “Three”) to help customers see through the hype and uncertainty of Big Data. B23 provides a new source for Big Ideas, and most importantly provides capabilities to implement those big ideas. We are currently based in the Washington, D.C. area, but we will travel anywhere a customer is in need! Contact Us
Dave
Mark
Brad
Dave is a co-founder and Managing Partner at B23. Prior to starting B23, Dave was an Account Executive at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Over the past 15 years, Dave has supported a variety of enterprise customers in both selling and technical roles within the Financial Services, International Telecommunications, and Public Sector markets. Dave started his career as a software developer and network engineer at MCI. Dave has an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Virginia, and an M.B.A. from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Mark is a Partner at B23. As a data scientist and technical executive for B23, Mark develops data products to inform business and customer decisions. Before joining B23, Mark directed the corporate product development and in-house innovation center for Agilex Technologies. Mark has built and managed teams with specialized expertise in advanced analytics, distributed processing, DevOps, and mobility. As a data scientist for Agilex, Mark led the implementation of big data business applications, including engineering the largest known implementation of latent semantic indexing with Apache Hadoop. Mark is the author of a patent application for applying machine learning to natural language, and he has contributed to the Apache Spark project. Mark has also served as a strategic and technical policy analyst in support of the Science Advisor and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Mark earned a BA in Physics from Georgetown University and an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.
Brad is a co-founder and Managing Partner at B23. Prior to starting B23, Brad was an Account Executive at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he helped Big Data, Financial, Health Care, and Public Sector customers make their transition to Cloud Computing. Brad has spent 15 years in project management, product management, sales and marketing positions. Brad held multiple leadership positions and specializes in developing strategic frameworks to support customer adoption of disruptive technologies. Brad started his professional career in the U.S. Navy where he spent 9 years as a Navy SEAL and left as a Lieutenant Commander. After leaving the Navy, Brad spent several years at CA Technologies, before his time at Amazon Web Services. Brad has a Bachelors of Science degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara an M.B.A. from George Mason University.