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For Release on February 7, 2005
Teradata Ships Data Warehouse Solution with Breakthrough Business-Intelligence Capability
AUCKLAND, New Zealand – Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), announced the shipment of Teradata®
Warehouse 8.0, a powerful data warehousing solution providing businesses with breakthrough business intelligence to
solve the problems of how to increase revenue, reduce expenses and identify new growth opportunities. Teradata is the
first to deliver a single data warehouse that supports business intelligence capability from both traditional analytical
applications and new operational analytical applications.
“The stronger, more robust Teradata data warehouse enables customers to gain a competitive edge with a new level of
business intelligence,” said Julian Beavis, Teradata’s vice president for India, Southeast Asia, Australia and New
Zealand. “In addition to business-intelligence capability, we continue to enhance the warehouse suite to make it even
easier for businesses to integrate Teradata into their overall enterprise.”
“Teradata Warehouse 8.0 shows good performance improvement and was easy to integrate into our corporate Microsoft
Windows Active Directory services infrastructure using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Together with
Teradata’s BEA WebLogic integration, this will enable us to implement a secure, high-performance operational CRM system
using our Teradata data warehouse,” said Andrus Maigre, database administrator,
Elion Enterprises AS, the largest provider of telecommunication and information technology services in Estonia.
As a part of its data warehouse solution, Teradata partners with leading software vendors to serve its customers. The
following partners have tested and validated that their software is compatible with Teradata Warehouse 8.0: Ab Initio,
Ambeo, Ascential, Atanasoft, BEZ, Business Objects, Cognos, DecisionPoint Software, ETI, GoldenGate, Hyperion,
Informatica, KXEN, MicroStrategy, Prescient, SAS, Siebel Systems and Ward Analytics.
“This is the tenth consecutive year that MicroStrategy has been certified on Teradata. MicroStrategy’s integrated
business monitoring, reporting and analysis capabilities are used everyday by hundreds of demanding Teradata customers
worldwide. The availability, manageability and performance advances in Teradata 8.0 will enable our joint customers to
scale their applications to meet their rapidly growing business intelligence needs,” said Sanju Bansal, chief operating
officer, MicroStrategy.
“Teradata continues to innovate with their latest release, furthering our shared vision of active data warehousing to
deliver timely and relevant insights to everyone across the enterprise,” said Paul Rodwick, vice president, product
marketing, Siebel Business Analytics. “With Siebel’s industry-specific analytic applications and enterprise business
intelligence platform optimised for Teradata Warehouse 8.0, our joint customers will benefit from even higher levels of
performance and scalability to gain real-time insight for effective decision making.”
About Teradata Division
Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), is the global technology leader in enterprise data warehousing,
analytic applications and data warehousing services. Organisations around the world rely on the power of Teradata’s
award-winning solutions (www.teradata.com) to get a single, integrated view of their business to enhance
decision-making, customer relationships and profitability.
About NCR Corporation
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a leading global technology company helping businesses build stronger relationships with
their customers. NCR’s ATMs, retail systems, Teradata® data warehouses and IT services provide Relationship Technology™
solutions that maximise the value of customer interactions and help organisations create a stronger competitive
position. Based in Dayton, Ohio, NCR (www.ncr.com) employs approximately 28,500 people worldwide.
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