Manthan wins Amazon Web Services (AWS) Innovation Partner award for the second consecutive year • Leverages Amazon Alexa and Amazon Lex to build Maya, the first AI-powered conversational agent for business analytics
MUMBAI,INDIA JUNE 27, 2017: Manthan, a leader in big data and analytics and a recognized innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, won the Innovation Partner Award for the second consecutive year, at the recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) India Partner Summit hosted in Mumbai, India. By combining AWS technologies with its expertise spanning descriptive and advanced analytics including forecasting, recommendations and causality, Manthan has created Maya, the world’s first AI-powered conversational platform for business analytics.
“We are delighted to receive this award two years in a row. It’s a testament to the body of work we have established in our AI initiatives. We believe AI is the future of decision making and have invested heavily in R&D focused AI labs that bring together the best technologies and some of the best minds in the industry,” said Atul Batra, CTO, Manthan.
Manthan has been at the forefront of technology innovations and is pioneering the move to zero touch UIs, voice-based AI-powered agents. With Maya, Manthan is transforming the way users interact with complex business systems. Users can ask any question related to their business in natural language and get answers instantly enabling them to make better analytics-driven decisions based on enterprise and external data, on-the-go. Enabled for Amazon Alexa, Maya uses the industry’s richest semantic data model and leverages Intent Analysis, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Deep Learning for personalized conversations.
Manthan is also delivering innovations in real time analytics using AWS serverless compute paradigm using AWS Lambda in combination with Big Data Analytics on the cloud, leveraging Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, Amazon Kinesis Streams, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon Relational Database Service and Amazon S3.
“Maya, Manthan’s leading AI innovation, is an exemplary solution that will help shape the future of decision making, powered by analytics. We are delighted to recognize Manthan for their contribution to business transformation,” said Amitabh Jacob, India - Head - Channels & Alliances, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
“AWS has been an excellent partner for Manthan, supporting us as we transformed to a SaaS model, and helping us innovate faster,” said Vijay Chidambaram, VP Cloud Engineering, Manthan
About Manthan
Manthan is the Chief Analytics Officer for consumer industries worldwide. Manthan's portfolio of analytics-enabled business applications, advanced analytics platforms and solutions are architected to help users across industries walk the complete data-to-result path - analyze, take guided decisions and execute these decisions real-time. Sophisticated, yet intuitive analytical capability coupled with the power of big data, mobility and cloud computing, brings users business-ready applications that provide on-demand access and real-time execution - the only path to profit in a contemporary, on-demand and connected economy. Manthan serves over 200 leading organizations across 23 countries. With the recent introduction of Maya, the world’s first AI powered conversational agent for business analytics, Manthan is pioneering the move to zero touch UIs and transforming user interactions with complex analytics applications. Manthan is one of the most awarded analytics innovators among analysts and customers alike. To learn how businesses can gain from analytics, please visit http://www.manthan.com