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Executive Feedback Ranks Teradata in the Top 10 Business Intelligence Providers

^{Published on 2009-02-11 11:47:06, Last Modified on 2009-02-11 11:48:10 - Market Wire}
 

MIAMISBURG, Ohio--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--[ Teradata ] Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the world's largest company solely focused on [ data warehousing ] and [ enterprise analytics ], has been recognized for technical excellence and customer satisfaction in [ business intelligence ] by two industry publications, adding to the growing lists of [ awards ] for Teradata.

For the third consecutive year, Teradata is ranked in the top 10 list of business intelligence providers in the Annual Consumer Goods Technology Reader's Choice. The ranking is based on customer experience as reported by consumer goods executives to an independent third party. Also for the third year in a row, Teradata was listed in [ Food Logistics FL100 ], an annual listing of the Top 100 technology suppliers to the food industry. The FL100 lists technology and solution providers that transform the food supply chain, including food, beverage and consumer packaged goods manufacturers, distributors, grocery wholesalers and third-party logistics providers.

Keith Henry, Teradata vice president for [ manufacturing ], global industry solutions, said, "Companies need to continue to innovate through analytics to do well today. By combining their rich transactional data with valuable external information sources, they are able to create an analytics platform to reduce costs and grow top line revenue. Increasingly Teradata is being recognized as a key technology enabler of analytic business transformation."

[ Teradata ] and [ enterprise analytics ] enable companies to make better decisions in less time, a critical advantage in an uncertain economic climate. Teradata customers gain a critical business advantage from the speed and efficiency with which Teradata analyzes products, customer behavior and corporate operational performance. The results of the analysis provide [ business intelligence ] to decision-makers — from strategic analysis for senior executives to operational intelligence for employees on the front lines, and to customers directly.

In extending Teradata's leadership, Teradata announced in 2008 its most powerful database version yet, Teradata 13, and it launched a new family of powerful [ analytical platforms ] to address a wide range of business intelligence and analytic needs, from data marts to entry level data warehouses and to the most sophisticated active enterprise data warehouses, all at attractive price points. The current releases of the [ Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family ] include the [ Teradata Data Mart Appliance ], [ Teradata Extreme Data Appliance ], [ Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance ] and the [ Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse ] platform.

Teradata also introduced [ Teradata Accelerate ] in 2008. These bundled comprehensive data warehouse packages include the Teradata database, hardware, software and services to help companies rapidly deploy and quickly realize business value from their data warehouse investment. [ Teradata Accelerate ] packages also protect a customer's investment in the Teradata technology going forward by leveraging existing skills sets and knowledge while also providing the portability of data integration scripts, data model and applications from one platform to another as the customer's needs evolve.

The company introduced the first database with breakthrough Teradata Virtual Storage capability when it announced the Teradata 13 database, also in 2008. When available, Teradata 13 will be packed with 75 new features for active data warehousing, providing an overall performance improvement up to 30 percent, and makes it economical to leverage a new class of data and enable faster data loading in to the data warehouse.

About Teradata

Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) is the world's largest company solely focused on raising intelligence through data warehousing, consulting services and enterprise analytics. Teradata is in more than 60 countries and on the web at [ www.teradata.com ].

Teradata is a trademark or registered trademark of Teradata Corporation in the United States and other countries.