Starschema Inc. is a global data services consultancy based in Arlington, VA with additional offices in San Francisco, Budapest and Szeged.

Starschema
Company typePrivate limited company
IndustryProfessional services
Founded2006 in Budapest, Hungary
HeadquartersArlington, VA,
United States
Key people
Services
Revenue
  • Increase US$ 14.2m
[1] (2020)
Number of employees
  • Increase 250+
 (2020)
Divisions
  • Data science and Advanced Analytics
  • Data visualization
  • Data Engineering
  • Strategy
  • Intramural Research
Websitestarschema.com

History edit

Founded in 2006 in Budapest, Hungary, Starschema initially worked for the European market. By the early 2010s, the company counted a number of Fortune 500 companies among its clients, including General Electric, Apple Inc. and Johnson & Johnson.[2] In 2016, the Government of Hungary awarded Starschema the Grand Prix for Innovation in IT,[3] and the company opened its US headquarters in the following year[4] after a $5m investment by the Central European venture capital fund PortfoLion.[5] Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Starschema posted a revenue of $14.2m for the 2020 fiscal year.[1] On 14 January 2022, HCL Technologies announced an agreement to acquire Starschema for US$42,500,000 (equivalent to $44,249,488 in 2023), subject to regulatory approvals from the Government of Hungary.[6] The acquisition was finalized on 6 April 2022.[7]

Services edit

Starschema's customer base has in recent years shifted towards a greater emphasis on the healthcare and life sciences portfolio.[8] Alongside large multinational corporations, Starschema also serves a range of NGOs, such as the UN's World Food Programme.[9] The company's global network of partners includes Amazon Web Services,[10] Snowflake Inc. and Tableau Software. The company's main practice areas are

Awards and recognition edit

The Financial Times ranked Starschema among the 1,000 fastest growing companies in Europe in 2019,[12] and the company was listed as one of the fifty fastest-growing technology companies in Central Europe by Deloitte.[13] In 2018, Aon Hewitt ranked Starschema as one of the best places to work in Hungary.[14]

Starschema's work in public health has been widely recognized, including the company's cooperation with PATH on malaria surveillance in Ethiopia, Zambia and Senegal.[15] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Starschema partnered with Snowflake Inc. to provide a comprehensive COVID-19 data set through Snowflake's Data Exchange.[16][17][18]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Folytatódott a Starschema növekedése". ProfitLine.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  2. ^ Attila, Götz (January 23, 2017). "A fél Szilícium-völgynek egy magyar cég bányász adatokat". index.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  3. ^ "Elismerték a legjobb magyar fejlesztéseket". Világgazdaság (in Hungarian). March 29, 2017. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  4. ^ "Amerikában terjeszkedik a magyar big data cég". Computerworld (in Hungarian). Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  5. ^ "Groundbreaking Hungarian Data Company Starschema to Receive $5 Million Investment". Hungary Today. February 20, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  6. ^ "HCL Technologies acquires Hungary's Starschema for $42.5 million". The Economic Times. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  7. ^ @starschemaltd (April 6, 2022). "As of today, Starschema is officially an HCL Technologies company" (Tweet). Archived from the original on April 8, 2022. Retrieved July 13, 2023 – via Twitter.
  8. ^ "Gyógyszeripari megrendelések tartják növekedési pályán a vezető magyar big data céget". ProfitLine.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  9. ^ "Élelmezési gondok: magyar big data cég segít a globális probléma megoldásában | Forbes.hu". forbes.hu (in Hungarian). July 30, 2020. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  10. ^ "AWS Partner Solutions Finder". partners.amazonaws.com. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  11. ^ "Services". Starschema. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  12. ^ Smith, Ian (March 1, 2019). "The FT 1000: third annual list of Europe's fastest-growing companies". www.ft.com. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  13. ^ "Deloitte: NNG shows how Hungarian startups can conquer the world – BBJ". BBJ.hu. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  14. ^ "Egyre csökken a munkavállalók lojalitása". www.origo.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  15. ^ "Big data's newest tool to fight malaria". Built In. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  16. ^ "Starschema launches COVID-19 dataset on Snowflake's Data Exchange". itbrief.co.nz. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  17. ^ "Data Cloud Success Story: Starschema Uses Snowflake Data Marketplace to Help the World Leverage COVID-19 Data | Snowflake Blog". Snowflake. April 23, 2021. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  18. ^ "Starschema Brings Single Source of Truth for COVID-19 Incidence Data to Snowflake Data Exchange". Snowflake. Retrieved June 25, 2021.