Microsoft Corporation acquired Revolution Analytics, a transaction completed in April 2015.
Revolution Analytics operates in Data Group (SQL Server / Azure advanced analytics). Revolution Analytics was the leading commercial provider of software and services for R, the open-source language for statistical computing and predictive analytics. Microsoft acquired it to bring advanced analytics and data science to its data platform across on-premises, hybrid, and Azure environments and help close the data-science skills gap.
Add enterprise-grade R and advanced analytics to Microsoft's data platform so customers can build and deploy statistical models at scale.
We are at the threshold of a revolution in information technology driven by the use of statistics and scientific analyses on big data.Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President, Data Group, Microsoft
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.