Date: 2009-11-17
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CARY, NC (Nov. 16, 2009) – SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, and Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances, have expanded their partnership to bring in-database analytic processing to mutual customers. Joint R&D will further integrate the companies’ respective products, starting with SAS® Scoring Accelerator for Netezza, available worldwide in early 2010.
(Media-Newswire.com) - CARY, NC (Nov. 16, 2009) – SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, and Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances, have expanded their partnership to bring in-database analytic processing to mutual customers. Joint R&D will further integrate the companies’ respective products, starting with SAS® Scoring Accelerator for Netezza, available worldwide in early 2010.
The SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza will help businesses obtain analytical results faster for more efficient, reliable decisions. Customers using SAS® Enterprise Miner™ and the Netezza TwinFin™ data warehouse appliance will translate and execute scoring models directly within Netezza’s massively parallel environment so they can act on results more quickly.
As a long-time customer of these technologies, Catalina Marketing is nearing the pinnacle of its data mining efforts. "Catalina Marketing is pleased to see the continued partnership of SAS and Netezza, and their delivery of in-database processing. The SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza has been a major advancement for us as we score approximately 200 million IDs," said Kelly Carrigan, Vice President, Business Intelligence Solutions for Catalina Marketing Corporation. "Our exclusive focus is on the advanced insights, not proprietary techniques for scaling our data mining execution. This translates to significant savings on engineering and efficiencies of computing resources. Successful delivery of these solutions reinforces our strategic, long-term commitment to these platforms. Bringing the 'processing' to the data is absolutely where the industry is going, and Catalina Marketing is excited to be on the forefront of these large-scale efforts."
Reducing data movement across networks lets organizations process more analytic models without jeopardizing reliability. The results are higher returns from data assets and reliable results supporting critical operations such as fraud detection, credit scoring and risk management.
“SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza, our first in-database activity with Netezza, further demonstrates SAS’ commitment to integrating SAS Analytics across leading database vendors,” said Keith Collins, SAS Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. “Running SAS analytic scoring processes where data is stored – in this case, Netezza’s data warehouse appliance – moves customers closer to real-time decision making.”
Rather than manually transforming and processing code outside the database, SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza automates data preparation and model deployment tasks inside the database. Flexible and cost-effective, this approach leverages customers’ Netezza data warehousing investments with SAS Business Analytics, letting customers focus instead on improving business processes and organizational performances.
“The SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza is an exciting new offering, one that will open up new opportunities for existing and future customers who want to take advantage of SAS' analytic software in conjunction with TwinFin as their platform for advanced analytics," said Jim Baum, President and CEO of Netezza. "Partnering with SAS for this initial delivery on a joint analytic road map will better equip our customers with increased operational efficiencies as well as enable them to make better, faster decisions throughout the enterprise."
About Netezza Corporation
Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ) is the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics across an extended enterprise. Netezza’s technology enables organizations to process enormous amounts of captured data at exceptional speed, providing a significant competitive and operational advantage in today’s data-intensive industries, including digital media, energy, financial services, government, health and life sciences, retail and telecommunications. Netezza is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts and has offices in Northern Virginia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, France, Japan, Korea, Australia and Singapore. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.
About SAS
SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know® .