A Hortonworks Resident Architect provides guidance and mentoring for an organization and its team.hwx-res-arch.pdf Once an organization has HDP in place, the journey of ownership begins. This journey typically includes managing the cluster including creating processes and procedures, governance, security, scoping, refining and implementing the use case or additional use case(s) and learning how and when to extend the cluster. A Hortonworks RA helps the customer’s team navigate these tasks and provides assistance settling or positioning HDP’s capabilities within the enterprise and across the business units. HDP is evolving at a pace only open source software can achieve. A Hortonworks RA can provide insight into how the latest release innovations can be applied to corporate objectives or challenges. Hortonworks RAs have deep subject matter expertise, practical experience and access to all the resources within Hortonworks. Hortonworks RAs work onsite addressing the topics and or tasks an organization needs assistance with in the order and timeframe the organization requires. ... View more

Hortonworks Professional Services has extensive knowledge and offerings focusing on enabling the adoption and ultimate success around the adoption of the Hadoop platform. One specific offering the targets supporting customers is the Center of Excellence (CoE) offering. The CoE offering is a Professional Services led engagement focused on partnering with a customer’s Executive, Business and IT teams to build facilitate the creation of a Big Data and Analytics COE. The primary goals of this engagement are to create the foundational elements of a customer specific shared service providing thought leadership, best practices, research & development, process & governance, support and training to all lines of business across the enterprise by evolving the use of all types of organizational data to drive strategic business value and reduce TCO. It includes management, program, and technical consulting across various disciplines with the objective of defining the necessary blueprints to facilitate customer success and maturation around the adoption and utilization of their modern data ecosystem. More information on the CoE offering can be found within the Hortonworks Professional Services page located here http://hortonworks.com/services/professional-services/ under the Our Offerings section or via the attached Data Sheet. ... View more

You can start with the HDP jumpstart, which will deploy Hortonworks data platform cluster in 1 week, gain knowledge to help your team run Hortonworks data platform, and apply best practices and expertise to gain value from the HDP deployment. More information on the Jumpstart offering can be found within the Hortonworks Professional Services page located here http://hortonworks.com/services/professional-services/ under the Our Offerings section. ... View more