Datawatch Brings Advanced Visual Data Discovery To Splunk Users

-- New Datawatch Accelerator Expands the Reach of Operational Intelligence

CHELMSFORD, Massachusetts, Nov. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH), the leading global provider of visual data discovery solutions, announced a new Visualization Accelerator that allows Splunk users to develop highly customized real-time visualizations against their Splunk data without any coding or scripting, allowing them to realize the full potential of Operational Intelligence by monitoring and analyzing the machine data made accessible through Splunk as well as other enterprise data sources and data streams.

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With Datawatch, users can connect to almost any source of information, including Splunk, to develop visual data discovery applications using an elegant drag-and-drop design environment.  These next generation analytic extensions to Splunk applications can include high impact customized visualizations and intuitive filtering controls to help users quickly isolate outliers and anomalies in their data.

In addition to easy design, Datawatch users can unify the display of data from multiple Splunk searches, as well as include data from other sources such as semi-structured, unstructured and real-time data sources.  And when combined with Datawatch Server, these next generation analytical applications can be shared across the entire enterprise via a browser-based solution, allowing for greater visibility and collaboration.

"Splunk customers have embraced the value of less-than-structured data, like machine log files, and we at Datawatch have a long heritage of helping customers gain value from this type of data," said Ben Plummer, chief marketing officer and senior vice president of Strategic Alliances.  "We are very excited about being able to offer Splunk users the ability to get even more from their investment through the use of Datawatch's next generation analytic capabilities and our new Visualization Accelerator for Splunk."

The Datawatch Visualization Accelerator for Splunk connects directly to on premise and cloud-based Splunk deployments.  To showcase this new solution, Datawatch has provided a free trial together with access to the Splunk demo instance running in the cloud.  Splunk users can now easily see the value of using Datawatch's visual data discovery capabilities in a Splunk environment by visiting www.datawatch.com/splunk.

ABOUT DATAWATCH CORPORATION 
Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH) provides visual data discovery software that optimizes any data – regardless of its variety, volume, or velocity – delivering next generation analytics to reveal valuable insights for improving business. Its unique ability to integrate structured, unstructured, and semi-structured sources like reports, PDF files and EDI streams with real-time streaming data into visually rich analytic applications allow users to dynamically discover key factors that impact any operational aspect of their business. This ability to perform visual discovery against any data sets Datawatch apart in the big data and visualization markets. Organizations of every size, worldwide use Datawatch, including 99 of the Fortune 100. Datawatch is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts with offices in New York, London, Munich, Stockholm, Singapore, Sydney and Manila, and with partners and customers in more than 100 countries worldwide. See the Whole Story for yourself by downloading the free trial at www.datawatch.com/trial.

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