Greenplum Chorus - The World’s First Enterprise Data Cloud Platform

Greenplum Chorus™ is a new class of software that empowers people within an enterprise to more easily collaborate and derive insight from their data. As the first commercial Enterprise Data Cloud platform, it provides the key services necessary for organizations wrestling with all data-big and small, structured and unstructured-to realize the benefits of private cloud computing techniques and social collaboration for enterprise data warehousing and analytics.

Chorus serves the needs of data analysts, IT, and business executives with three core pillars of functionality:

• Self-service provisioning of data marts and secure, controlled sandboxes relieve IT of the management overhead and operational complexity usually associated with data mart deployment.
• Data services allow analysts to effortlessly discover, combine, and share useful datasets within and across data marts.
• Data collaboration provides rich social networking capabilities that link data and data analysts, accelerating collaboration and insight.

Self-Service Provisioning

With Chorus, IT and DBAs can establish one or more pool of commodity servers and storage ahead of demand, and can then create new database instances and sandboxes in minutes with just a few clicks. These databases could be small sandboxes on just a couple of servers, or they could be multi-petabyte marts across hundreds of servers. Pools can be expanded by adding more servers, and the databases can themselves grow to span more servers and storage using Greenplum Database's online expansion capabilities.

Data Services

With Chorus, analysts can browse or search for interesting datasets among all those that they have permission to access across all databases of the Chorus system. Chorus will schedule and manage the flow of data, and will track the dependency and update their copy when the source is updated with new data. Analysts can operate on the data, and can share the results of their analysis as a new dataset that can be discovered and accessed by other analysts.

Data Collaboration

Chorus provides rich social network features that revolve around datasets, insights, and other key Chorus entities, allowing data analysts, IT, DBAs, executives, and other stakeholders to all participate and collaborate.

The result is that groups of data analysts and other stakeholders can each bring their datasets to the table and collaboratively discover, share, and discuss insights that have meaningful impact on the business.

Learn more about the technology behind Greenplum Chorus: Greenplum Data Hypervisor.

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