[January 21, 2015]

CAC's Pension Management System Adopts MapR for Its Hadoop Infrastructure

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced CAC Corporation (CAC) has adopted the MapR Distribution including Hadoop for its "Micmari" cloud-based pension management system. Designed for enterprises as an open-source distributed processing infrastructure, the MapR-based system was developed by ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC (News - Alert)), one of the largest system integrators in Japan and a MapR reseller partner.

The "Micmari" pension management service was developed through the know-how accrued from CAC's in-depth experience building many pension systems for large corporations and banking institutions. "Micmari" offers users the ability to reduce system management costs, including those that occur during system changes and during system switchovers. Groups involved in administrating corporate pensions of companies, funds, and more can manage pensions from one unified platform and can customize web services to match their unique strategies. The system easily and quickly processes terabytes of data depending on the number of people it's managing and flexibly handles rapidly increasing calculation volumes.

"MapR offers an innovative Hadoop platform which increases performance, availability, fault-resistance, and adds security measures and data protection in order to provide companies with a product superior in overall performance," said Masanori Tanaka, general manager of IT Solution Business Division at CTC.

Yukihisa Shigemaru, practice lead of CAC, added, "By adopting a system which combines MapR and CTC offerings, we have achieved a reduction in initial costs and operation costs, reduced batch processing time, and as such expanded system usability time, enabling us to offer higher quality and more flexible services."

In addition, "Micmari" runs on ElasticCUVIC, a unique enterprise-grade, cloud-basedservice provided by CTC, which has partnered with CAC to utilize CTC's Big Data Processing Lab to run advanced testing on "Micmari" and ElasticCUVIC combined with MapR.

"We're pleased to partner with CTC to launch innovative cloud-based services in the Japanese market," said Martin Darling, vice president, Asia Pacific & Japan, MapR Technologies. "The growing volume of data processed in CAC's pension management service is a perfect example of leveraging Hadoop in order to stay ahead of changing data management requirements."

About CAC

CAC Corporation offers a wide range services related to IT systems, ranging from corporate IT strategy and planning consulting to system development, construction, adoption, management, and protection, offering BPO services aimed at achieving IT utilization within corporate business processes.

About "Micmari"

"Micmari" is a pension management package service offered by CAC and designed for the pension funds held by general companies, corporate pension funds, trust banks, life insurance companies and other organizations managing the pension enrollment, beneficiaries, and more within corporate pensions. "Micmari" was developed using "AZAREA-Cluster", the CAC's GUI based application development framework for developing applications easily on top of the Hadoop MapReduce framework.

About CTC

Established in 1972, ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) delivers complex end-to-end IT solutions and services to enterprises and outsourcing services through our own data centers. CTC serves the telecommunications, broadcasting, manufacturing, financial services, retail, distribution, public, utilities, education, life sciences, engineering, and apparel market segments.

CTC has formed partnerships with hundreds of leading IT companies from all over the world. These partnerships range from global multinational IT companies to highly focused venture businesses. Our service edge lies in offering one-stop 24 x 7 support services through 100 locations nationwide.

* "Micmari" and "AZAREA" are registered trademarks of CAC. All rights concerning every other title, etc. mentioned in this article are retained by their respective companies.

About MapR Technologies

MapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop with a proven, enterprise-grade platform that supports a broad set of mission-critical and real-time production uses. MapR brings unprecedented dependability, ease-of-use and world-record speed to Hadoop, NoSQL, database and streaming applications in one unified distribution for Hadoop. MapR is used by more than 700 customers across financial services, government, healthcare, internet, manufacturing, media, retail and telecommunications as well as by leading Global 2000 and Web 2.0 companies. Amazon, Cisco, Google (News - Alert), Teradata and HP are part of the broad MapR partner ecosystem. Investors include Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. MapR is based in San Jose, CA (News - Alert). Connect with MapR on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook

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