In reply to jaap karman.

Jaap,

SAS definitely still works with Teradata appliances - and very well.

The technical nature of that partnership has changed as we've come to better understand how our customers want to use their Teradata warehouse.

We no longer support "co-located" installation of the SAS High-Performance Analytics Environment (providing the LASR Analytic Server and support for the HPA PROCs) on a TD700. Instead, we work with a dedicated TD720 which hosts the SAS LASR (or other HPAE) software "next to" any existing TD appliances. This means that we will need to deploy the SAS In-Database Embedded Process to the TD appliance hosting the TD warehouse. And then the EP can be used for parallel data loads over to LASR (or other HPAE) on the TD720. The EP is also useful for in-database procedures as well as scoring and code acceleration (all under the idea of "taking the analytics to the data").

So definitely feel confident in pursuing a Teradata solution with SAS High-Performance Analytics. It's a very strong partnership and compelling technology stack.