Syncsort has been creating software to enhance databases since it released high speed sorting tools for mainframes in the 1960s. Why mess with a good thing? This month the company partnered with both Hortonworks and Greenplum.

Hortonworks is a Yahoo spinoff that provides commercial products and services for Hadoop. The new partnership enables integration between Syncsort’s DMExpress Data Integration platform and Hadoop. With the integration, customers can design data integration workflows that include Hadoop using Syncsort’s graphical user interface. Syncosort  integrated DMExpress with Hadoop’s Distributed Filesystem (HDFS) and the MapReduce framework, which allows Syncsort to work with HDFS files. DMExpress can sort routines can also be integrated into MapReduce jobs. This could make Hadoop more accessible to organizations that want to leverage the technology, but don’t have resources with the right skillset to develop solutions with the notoriously complex platform.

In addition to the Hortonwork partnership, Syncsort also partnered with Greenplum a business unit of EMC that offers a massively parallel processing data warehouse appliance.  The partnership  certifies Greenplum as a valid end point and for high-performance data loading.  DMExpress’s ability to connect to a variety of data sources makes it easier for users to extract and transform data from across the enterprise and rapidly load it into Greenplum database without manual tuning or custom development. Syncsort also joined Greenplum’s “Catalayst” developer program, which will allow the companies to collaborate on future solutions.

Syncsort’s ability to integrate with multiples types of big data solutions  can give companies access to data more quickly and lowers the cost and effort associated with analysis. These benefits will continue to grow more important as data sizes and diversity continue to increase within organizations. Businesses are already struggling with the cost and the complexity of unlocking value from their big data. Syncsort is hoping that companies dealing with these challenges will look to it for a solution.