Zaloni's new Mica release makes data discovery, curation and self-service data preparation more collaborative and intuit

Zaloni, the data lake company, released today a new version of its Mica self-service data preparation platform at Strata Hadoop World. Mica provides users with an on-ramp for self-service data discovery, curation, and preparation of data in the data lake. With Mica, business users have the tools they need for rapidly discovering data sets, interacting with them and uncovering needed business insights. According to a January 2016 report, entitled Overcoming Obstacles That Prevent the Deployment and Use of a Modern BI and Analytics Platform, Gartner predicts that by "2017, most business users and analysts in organizations will have access to self-service tools to prepare data for analysis." "Data preparation can no longer exclusively be an IT function," said Ben Sharma, Zaloni's co-founder and CEO.