SAS partners with Teradata

Mumbai

16 October 2007

Business intelligence and analytical software and services company SAS has
signed a strategic partnership with Teradata Corporation. SAS said that with
this partnership customers now would be able to exploit the best of both
companies' core strengths. This will be accomplished through deeper technical
integration of their respective products, as well as through coordinated
marketing, sales and services activities.

In support of the recently announced SAS In-Database initiative, the
foundation of the partnership is to enable businesses to run and optimize key
aspects of SAS solutions and analytic processes within the Teradata database
engine. Customers will be able to leverage SAS capabilities and analytical
functions to utilize the core parallel processing inherent in Teradata's
architecture.

Additionally, the joint road map also calls for selected SAS solutions
targeting financial services and retail to be optimized with Teradata, SAS said
in a statement.

Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS said, "This announcement with Teradata marks
our first relational database partnership - one that will open up new
opportunities for existing and future customers interested in utilizing the
power of SAS' award-winning solutions and analytics within Teradata's
industry-leading database engine."

In addition, SAS and Teradata also have created a Center of Excellence (COE).
This dedicated joint team of solution architects and technical consultants will
help customers achieve increased performance and capabilities from their current
and future SAS and Teradata IT infrastructure.

The two companies will also establish a joint executive-level customer
advisory group for product feedback, future direction and determination of
subsequent integration priorities.