Storage kingpin EMC Corp. (EMC) today opened the EMC Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence/Analytics Competency Center, focused on delivering application-specific solutions by bringing together EMC engineering resources with other vendors.
The EMC resources at the facility are focused on data warehouse/business intelligence and will be joined by the likes of Greenplum, IBM, Microsoft, Netezza, Oracle, ParAccel, Sybase, Teradata and Vertica, said EMC.
This centralized engineering lab provides customers with a one-stop shopping experience to identify the appropriate solution to meet their data warehouse/business intelligence needs, according to EMC.
Data warehouse/business intelligence environments today, EMC claims, are larger ― often using tens or hundreds of terabytes of storage ― more complex, and have become more critical and more integral to the business process.
“Customers want a flexible, manageable and cost-effective information infrastructure that supports the new business requirements, and that is where EMC can help," said Chuck Hollis EMC's vice president of Global Marketing chief technology officer, in prepared comments. "EMC's new application Competency Center will help customers better understand how to address their business goals today and in the future and choose the appropriate solution to achieve these needs."
Located in EMC's Santa Clara, Calif., facility, the EMC Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence/Analytics Competency Center also has Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing system to link to EMC's Executive Briefing Centers in Hopkinton, Mass., to provide customers access to the resources.
