The next generation of smart applications to transform industries will bring powerful analytics to front-line decision-making. These new applications need a new, smart database foundation that tears down the traditional barriers between transactions and analytics, and that can process sophisticated planning, predictive analysis, and business logic in one unified, high-performance engine. This new database foundation must natively take advantage of the cloud and multicore computing, and free developers to focus on solving innovative problems, not on figuring out the underlying technology. LogicBlox provides this next-generation, smart database foundation. LogicBlox' capabilities are enabled by its patent-pending technology, and driven by its global research & development organization, which includes over 20 computer science PhD's, 6 former computer science faculty, and 50 academic collaborators at 25 of the world's leading universities. The LogicBlox team is pushing the boundaries of computing and science to re-envision what business applications can do.