Teradata

Economic reality is clearly in the driver’s seat and will be the single largest factor affecting all IT spending in 2009. Vendors will deliver on new releases and functionality announced in 2008, as well as work hard to encourage upgrades and adoption. User priorities, on the other hand, will be more pragmatic.

Find out why companies are migrating to Teradata, turning their tactical solutions into strategic solutions. Bill Inmon discusses why people are migrating to Teradata to get an enterprise-wide view of their business.

Any consideration of integration tools to accelerate supply chain performance in SAP environments should include Teradata Supply Chain Accelerator for SAP.

This MDM report tries to establish a baseline of understanding for MDM initiatives, the technology needed to implement a master data, benefits, and evolving MDM initiatives. 

This case study, written and published by IDC, features Belgian direct insurance company Corona Direct and their implementation of a Teradata data warehouse along with software from DataDistilleries for customer management.

eBay has combined the agility and ease of use of data marts with the advantages of a centralized data warehouse by selecting a platform with massively parallel processing capability. This approach has given eBay an advanced self-service model that allows groups to leverage virtual systems for their individual or department needs, at a cost that undercuts any data mart or cascaded systems implementation.

Finding and exploiting incremental uses for the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) are critical. This AMR report defines the EDW Roadmap and identifies how it can help business realize the full potential of their data warehouse.

The Data Warehousing Institute Best Practices Report Third Quarter 2007 By Wayne W. Eckerson discusses best practices in Operational Business Intelligence and converging analytical and operational processes.

The technology stack for business intelligence and data warehousing is currently expanding to accommodate two relatively new additions, namely BI search and text analytics. Although each stands ably on its own, the two are related in that they tend to operate on unstructured data.

An increasing number of organizations are making BI functionality more pervasively available to all decision makers, be they executives, customer-facing employees, line-of-business managers, or suppliers. The technology to support such BI efforts consists of many components, all of which are deployed with the goal of providing the right information to the right people at the right time.

TDWI Technology Market Reports provide TDWI Members an annual overview of an important technology sector within the business intelligence (BI) market. Technology Market Reports highlight the major events in the sector for the previous 12 months, predict the segment’s future direction, and provide a comparative review of the leading products in the sector.

To shed more objective light on the current state of the art in Business Performance Management, we conducted an extensive study of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) from 780 of the largest corporations in the United States1. This makes it one of the largest studies ever conducted in the field of BPM.

Three-quarters of data in the average data warehouse comes from structured sources, although only half of data across the rest of the enterprise is structured. Most organizations need to close this gap; otherwise, the data warehouse will remain a single version of the truth, but not the whole truth.

2007 M&A activity, coupled with new product introductions and emerging partnerships, has reshaped the landscape for corporate performance management (CPM) applications. Vendors recognize the CFO’s office as an ideal place to sell a departmental application in the context of the broader enterprise.