BANGALORE: Crayon Data, a Singapore based Big Data Startup Company with its development centre at Chennai has been chosen as one of the companies for the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge. The short list allows Crayon’s product, Maya Personal Choice Assistant, to compete for a chance to tap the power of Watson’s powerful computing capabilities.

The Big Data startup was found with a vision to simplify  the large chunk of unstructured information and has a platform that includes vast variety of data. The platform helps enterprises to connect their internal data with the unstructured outside information, including that from social media. By connecting multi-dimensional data, the platform provides richer and more intelligent data-led decisions to its clients. Crayon Data has its headquarters in Singapore and its key development centre is in Chennai.

Maya is a cross-category Personal Choice Assistant, designed to help users simplify choices for a range of activities across banking, retail, hospitality and telecom. Maya represents the features of a big data platform that makes the interactions between consumers and enterprises simpler.