The world is awash in BIG DATA and analytical tools are essential to making sense of that data. Yet most analytical tools are stand-alone, single threaded applications that don’t easily integrate with other essential components. Projects that hope to integrate these applications are often complex, ill-defined and expensive. Flex Analytics provides analytical software from many vendors and has partnered with Optensity to provide a “platform” that allows the end-users to easily weave heterogeneous software packages into complex workflows with limited or no programming required.