How does Hadoop fit into your IT architecture? Does it replace your data warehouse, or complement your EDW? How can you access data in Hadoop? And what is the best way to take advantage of the parallel processing capabilities of Hadoop for advanced analytics? These and other questions are answered
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![How’s the week gone for SAS? It’s easy as 1, 2, 3 … People on stage with green lasers from recent SAS conference](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2013/10/Green.jpg)
SAS has had a good week. No. 1 in Analytics The company remains No. 1 in advanced analytics -- per IDC and Forrester, not just according to marketers like me. And we remain committed to innovation. Our data visualization offering, SAS Visual Analytics, is now used by more than 500
![How to get started now with Hadoop](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/DataMgt-1-702x336.png)
What do you get when you put a dozen big data pros around a table to discuss the real (not over-inflated) effects of big data on the organization? An honest discussion around what big data is and what it isn’t, what Hadoop can accomplish and what it cannot. Where did
![The Teradata and SAS partnership: Faster than a speeding query on a 6700](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2013/09/berman-rob-photo-20063-384x336.jpg)
Customers continue to validate the value of the joint alliance strategy of Teradata and SAS, and for good reason.
![From one tech leader to another: 3 big thoughts on big data](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2011/09/kcollins.jpg)
If you're looking for an honest discussion around big data and IT from one technologist to another, look no further than the recent Forbes article, "SAS CTO On IT And Big Data Analytics."* In it, Keith Collins discusses Hadoop, shadow IT and more. Three excerpted points you won't want to
![SAS Global Forum: Buzzword Bingo with SAS Experts](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/DataVisualization-1-702x336.png)
SAS Global Forum 2013 provided a platform for SAS to share its vision. If you couldn't make it to San Francisco, no problem, I have interviewed our key thought leaders to bring you their thoughts in a game of buzzword bingo. First up is Paul Kent, SAS' Vice President of Big Data. Paul
![Paul Kent on Hadoop, SAS and elevators](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
Paul Kent, SAS VP of Big Data talks to us at SAS Global Forum about working with Hadoop and the significant impact it has on SAS customers. Watch the video to learn how one Japanese real estate company used this technology to gather data from elevator stops in high-rise buildings. The
![Five big data predictions for 2013](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2012/05/bigdata150.jpg)
My predictions for "big data" in 2013 were recently published in the Fourth Quarter 2012 issue of Loyalty Management Magazine, and I wanted to share them here too: Streaming data from gadgets, cars and other devices will become an even bigger and more important data source. Social data will be used
![Adventures in the Hadoop zoo](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/DataMgt-1-702x336.png)
For some odd reason, the open-source Apache Hadoop ecosystem consists of cleverly named components that seem to have escaped from the Central Park Zoo. You may be aware that the little yellow elephant named Hadoop was actually a stuffed toy that Doug Cutting’s son owned. (Doug is the co-creator of
![A strategic data plan pays off](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2012/10/DATA-PLAN-702x336.jpg)
Recent SAS-sponsored research by the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed large enterprises on a number of questions about "big data" and its value. The most prominent finding was that companies with a strategic data plan were much more likely to be financially successful than those who treat data as a tactical