LG CNS releases big data sharing platform

By Yoon Sung-won

LG CNS said Wednesday it has launched its ODPia open big data sharing platform.

Based on the service, the system integration affiliate of LG Group pledged to boost its presence in the sector both at home and abroad, covering diverse industries including commerce, finance and healthcare.

“We plan to ultimately build up ODPia as a data analytics platform by collecting data from diverse sources such as shopping, financial technology and healthcare,” LG CNS’s big data business development senior leader Lee Jin-hyeong said in a statement.

LG CNS has pushed for the big data business as one of its new growth engines alongside cloud computing, energy management, smart green systems, smart transportation and the Internet of Things.

In 2011, it organized a department dedicated to this sector for the first time in Korea’s system integration industry.

By 2012, the company had launched more than 10 big data-related services including the nation’s first integrated big data system, the Smart Big Data Platform (SBP), and its analysis platform SBP Appliance.

In particular, LG CNS has targeted global big data markets by releasing its Smart Social Media Analysis platform in China in June 2013.

ODPia is an open platform where users can easily search analyze and share big data.

The platform service provides real-time analysis of data cited on social media to monitor a company’s public awareness and customers’ lifestyle trends. It processes and provides data from public agencies and links them for cross analysis.

Users can also share, sell and buy big data-related applications and services on the platform and communicate with each other through analysis galleries and community bulletin boards, the company said.