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EMC Greenplum and SAS

Delivering Big Data Performance, Scale and Agility to SAS® Users

SAS® and EMC have partnered to deliver innovative solutions to address the big data challenges that our joint customers are facing. EMC's industry-leading capabilities in IT infrastructure solutions for virtualized and cloud environments are optimal to allow SAS customers to modernize and grow with the latest SAS Business Analytics software and solutions.

Greenplum, a division of EMC, has industry-leading analytics platforms to help SAS users rapidly bring their growing structured and unstructured data assets to complex analytics challenges such as:

  • Predictive modeling of customer behavior to improve acquisition, retention and revenue.
  • Product and service quality analysis.
  • Creation of new information-based products and revenue streams.
  • Detection and prevention of complex fraud.
  • Investment and risk analysis.

"Analyzing massive amounts of big data quickly to get at answers that increase agility – an organization's ability to sense change and respond – and drive time-sensitive business decisions is a competitive differentiator in today's market. Customers will gain from EMC's deep understanding of massively parallel processing architecture combined with SAS' deep expertise in analytics. Greenplum's strategic alliance with SAS gives our mutual customers integrated tools that allow them to capitalize on the big data opportunity, with confidence of knowing that our joint solutions have been pretested by our world-class engineering teams. 

-Bill Cook, President
Greenplum, a division of EMC

Joint Initiatives

SAS High-Performance Analytics for Greenplum

SAS Analytics expertise and EMC Greenplum's deep understanding of parallel processing will offer our customers a database appliance ready analytics software to tackle difficult problems with unparalleled speed and confidence. SAS High-Performance Analytics will let customers develop and deploy analytical models using complete data – not just a subset or aggregate – to get accurate and timely insights and take well-informed decisions.

SAS® Scoring Accelerator for Greenplum

SAS Scoring Accelerator for Greenplum is now available. SAS Scoring Accelerator for Greenplum enables customers to publish scoring models created in SAS® Enterprise Miner™ into database-specific functions and exploit parallel processing architecture offered by the database to get faster results. In-database scoring reduces data movement between various data marts, streamlines analytic deployment processes and improves productivity of analytical professionals and IT.

SAS/ACCESS® Interface to Greenplum

Greenplum's database appliance manages, stores and facilitates the analysis of petabytes of data. SAS/ACCESS software is the foundation of SAS enterprise data management capabilities. It reads, writes and updates data regardless of the native database or platform. SAS/ACCESS Interface to Greenplum is an out-of-the-box solution that provides direct connectivity between SAS and Greenplum database appliances, going beyond ODBC's standard interfacing capabilities.

Greenplum products

Bring performance, scale and agility to SAS Analytics projects with: 

  • Greenplum DCA modular commodity-based parallel analytics appliances. 
  • Greenplum Database massively parallel analytical computation and data storage software.
  • Greenplum HD for Hadoop-based software for analysis of large unstructured data assets.  
  • Greenplum Chorus, the industry's first enterprise data cloud platform for collaborative analytics.

EMC's portfolio is the broadest and deepest in the data storage industry. EMC's current market position is No. 1 for:

  • Networked Storage (NAS + Open SAN)
  • Open SAN
  • FC SAN
  • iSCSI SAN
  • NAS
  • IP-based storage
  • Storage software

About Greenplum and EMC

Greenplum, a division of EMC

Greenplum, a division of EMC, is driving the future of Big Data analytics with breakthrough products including Greenplum Data Computing Appliance, Greenplum Database, Greenplum Community Edition, Greenplum HD and Greenplum Chorus – the industry's first Enterprise Data Cloud platform. The division's products embody the power of open systems, cloud computing, virtualization and social collaboration – enabling global organizations to gain greater insight and value from their data than ever possible before. Additional information on Greenplum can be found at http://www.greenplum.com.

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.