Teradata and SAS partner on analytics appliance

The appliance includes SAS data exploration, modeling and scoring tools combined with a specifically configured hardware and database software from Teradata.

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ZDnet, By Andrew Brust | April 23, 2012

SAS Teradata has been in the business intelligence (BI) business for some time, making purpose-built appliances for data warehousing applications. SAS has been in the BI business for decades as well, historically with industry-leading statistical software, but more recently with predictive analytics technology as the flagship component of a full BI stack.

Now the two companies have teamed up, with the introduction of the Teradata 700 appliance for SAS High-Performance Analytics. The appliance runs a version of SAS' analytics technology called SAS High-Performance Analytics for Teradata. Together, the appliance and the software bring together many of the technologies and architectures we've discussed in this blog:

Appliance technology, such as is used in Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) products
In-memory database technology
Parallel processing of analytics tasks, which bears certain affinity to both Hadoop/MapReduce and MPP

The SAS High-Performance Analytics software includes SAS data exploration, model development and model deployment software. According to Teradata, in the case of one of its existing customers, the combination of the 700 appliance's finely-optimized hardware, the in-memory technology and the parallel processing approach resulted in "improving modeling and complex query performance from a week down to less than 2 minutes."

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