Who Should Use This Guide

This guide is for business analysts and data stewards who are using SAS Data Loader for Hadoop as a self-service way to prepare, integrate, and cleanse big data without writing code. This product enables users to run code and data quality functions on Hadoop, and then to load that data into memory for visualization and analysis. Thus, SAS Data Loader for Hadoop improves productivity, performance, and accuracy.
Note: If you are deploying the SAS Data Loader for Hadoop Trial Edition, do not refer to this guide. Instead, use the instructions that are provided at http://www.sas.com/en_us/software/data-management/data-loader-hadoop.html.