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Shared technology and service offerings target rapid deployment, streamlined data prep and modeling, and faster query performance.

By Doug Henschen, March 24, 2009, intelligententerprise

Faster analysis means faster decisions, so there's a growing trend toward moving calculations and queries into the data warehouse, avoiding data movement that slows response times. Some 18 months ago, SAS and Teradata announced plans to support so-called "in-database analysis," and this week at the SAS Global Forum in Washington, D.C., the two vendors announced the resulting technology and service offerings.

"We now have a joint center of excellence that can help customers from deployment and development though to maintenance and services," says Rob Berman, a vice president at Teradata. "It's unique among partnerships in that it's delivered as one offering, from taking the order through delivering the services and ongoing support."

The initial joint technology and service offerings can be delivered through either vendor, depending on the customer's purchasing, deployment and support preferences. Analytic Advantage packages include prepackaged hardware, software and services aimed at streamlining deployments in addition to all the steps leading up to and including actual analytic queries.

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