Syncsort delivers mainframe data to Snowflake to support growing demand for advanced cloud analytics
Now organizations have greater flexibility to connect critical on-premise customer and financial data to the cloud for advanced and predictive analysis like fraud detection and credit risk assessment
Syncsort, the global leader in Big Iron to Big Data software, today announced seamless data integration with Snowflake Inc., provider of the only data warehouse built for the cloud. The new integration will enable mutual customers to access, transform and deliver critical customer and financial data from the mainframe to Snowflake for advanced analytics. As the system of record for many large organizations, mainframe data provides key insights that support top business use cases such as new market promotions, fraud detection and evaluating credit risk.
Organizations turn to Snowflake’s built-for-the cloud data warehouse because it offers flexible architecture, low cost and elasticity. Cloud database platforms are extremely powerful and can handle a wide variety of data sources, but mainframe data remains largely inaccessible without specialized transformation. This challenge exists because moving mainframe Db2 and VSAM data and transforming it so it’s ready for storage and analytics in the cloud can be time consuming and very complex due to incompatible record formats. This is where Syncsort specializes in helping to make important customer, transaction, payment, bank and mortgage balance and stock holding information easy to collect, load and transform in Snowflake.
“Many of our customers want to leverage the power and economics of Snowflake to support key business initiatives but are unable to include their business-critical mainframe data,” said Bryan Ashley, Senior Vice President, Global Business Development and APAC Operations, Syncsort. “Syncsort leads the industry in collecting, delivering and transforming complex mainframe data to make it usable in modern cloud data platforms, as well as Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Elastic and Splunk. We are excited to partner with Snowflake to bring this vital business information to their cloud-built data warehouse, which combines the instant and near-infinite elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions.”
“Our customers leverage our cloud-built data warehouse because it’s designed to keep up with the exploding demand for data-driven insight,” said Walter Aldana, Vice President, Global Alliances, Snowflake. “They are looking for a different approach than the complex, costly and inflexible systems that have become obstacles rather than solutions to accessing and analyzing their data. We are pleased to work with Syncsort to ensure the mainframe data that is critical to many organizations, particularly financial and banking institutions, can be easily made available in Snowflake to support these insights.”