Syncsort and Tableau Software form technology partnership

Syncsort has announced a technology partnership with Tableau Software geared to provide their mutual customers with a better way to make the most current, accurate data from across the enterprise – including mainframe and legacy systems – available in Hadoop and then visualise and share it on-the-fly with simple, drag-and-drop business analytics.

Syncsort’s Data Integration solutions deliver an agile ETL platform - collecting, processing, and integrating data into Hadoop for faster performance and an easy way to keep the most current data available for analysis. Tableau gives customers a quick and simple method to analyse, visualise, and share the information via a drag-and-drop interface. Combined, Syncsort and Tableau provide a fast, resource- and cost-effective solution for collecting, processing, and visualising data - optimising value and leveraging key mainframe and legacy data to uncover new business insights on request.

“To derive maximum value from Big Data across the enterprise, customers are looking for the smartest way to get enterprise data into Hadoop, keep the most current information available for analysis, and quickly and easily visualise it for business intelligence,” said Bryan Ashley, vice president business development, data integration business, Syncsort. “With Syncsort’s Data Integration solutions and Tableau’s visual analysis technology, customers have the agility to achieve this goal with speed, accuracy, and minimum risk.”

With over 40 years of mainframe experience, Syncsort can address the challenges of ingesting and processing data from across the enterprise, including mainframe and legacy data. With no programming or tuning required, Syncsort provides the ability to extract, transform, and load data between Enterprise Data Warehouses, file repositories, and Hadoop.

“Big Data analysis is often complicated by the need to integrate data from multiple sources with multiple formats including key business data sources on Mainframes,” said Dan Jewett, vice president of product management, Tableau Software. “The process of collecting and processing the data needs to be simple, fast, efficient, and reliable from the time it is pulled from multiple sources until it is visualised for analysis. The partnership with Syncsort offers a complete and balanced solution to this challenge.”