10 Hot Data, Web Analytics Companies That You Should Know

The application of new-generation analytics to collected business data, especially when involving the large workloads that are becoming standard in data centers, is becoming a prime-time conversation. Savvy line-of-business people know that wringing good information and advice out of various streams of business data can show patterns that can help predict the future-and if you have an idea of what the future holds, you have a huge competitive advantage and stand to improve profit margins. Thanks to powerful multicore processors, the tech industry now has the computing power to process more data; with improved storage, the security and capacity at reasonable cost to protect it; and with new-gen networking, the bandwidth to move it efficiently from one place to another. Now, the market has incredibly fast analytics software and services to go with all the above. Here, eWEEK showcases 10 significant new players in this burgeoning space.

Social analytics and user analytics platform: Kontagent is a leading viral analytics platform for social network application developers. The Kontagent platform has been built from the ground up to provide deep social data visualization and analysis that delivers actionable insights delivered via a hosted, on-demand service. The Kontagent platform works directly with the Facebook API, and will shortly support the OpenSocial and the MySpace platform.

Free mobile analytics: Flurry increases the size and value of mobile application audiences, already helping more than 60,000 companies in more than 150,000 applications across iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, JavaME and HTML5 platforms. Flurry has built the world's leading mobile application analytics and data-powered advertising platform, with more ground-breaking services in development.

Combines all analytics and data into one place: Metricly helps small businesses and startups create easy-to-use dashboards to track their key metrics and better understand their business. Metricly aggregates the actual data from financial systems, Web analytics and other sources. It at that time provides simple tools to create custom graphs and dashboards based on that data. Metricly as well helps business operators improve their analytics with suggested dashboards, metrics overviews, data summaries and the best related links from around the Web.