HPE's Haven OnDemand offers 'machine learning as a service'

If 2015 was the year analytics tools became ubiquitous in enterprise software, 2016 is shaping up to do much the same for machine learning. Just last week artificial-intelligence startup Nervana launched an offering that promises "deep learning on demand," and on Thursday Hewlett Packard Enterprise released a product of its own for what it calls "machine learning as a service." Dubbed Haven OnDemand, the cloud platform offers machine-learning application programming interfaces (APIs) and services designed to enable developers and businesses to build data-rich mobile and enterprise applications. Face-detection capabilities are included in Haven OnDemand. Haven OnDemand entered beta back in 2014, and at the time it had just a few APIs, said Fernando Lucini, HPE's CTO for big data.