Greenplum Speeds Creation Of 'Self-Service' Data Warehouses With Enterprise Data Cloud Release

By: Dana Gardner Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:25 PM

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Greenplum has charged headlong into cloud computing with this week's announcement of its Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) Initiative, which aims to bring "self-service" provisioning to data warehousing and business analytics.

The San Mateo, Calif. com pany, which provides large-scale data processing and data analytics, says its new initiative, as well as the general availability of Greenplum Database 3.3, improves on costly and inflexible solutions that have dominated the market for decades. (Disclosure: Greenplum is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.)

Greenplum's goal: To foster speedy creation of vast data warehouses by non-IT personnel in either public or private cloud configurations. The value of data warehouses and the business intelligence (BI) payoffs they provide are clear.

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