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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.

Read this recap of AMR Research conference session "Using Shopper Insights to Improve Joint Value Creation"

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.

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.

BeyeNetwork report examines state of the art in designing and implementing operational BI solutions, including data and event analytics, techniques, technologies, benefits.

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.

AMR suggests in this report that the goal of collecting customer data should not be to generate reports, but rather to increase revenue while decreasing costs. And it identifies a centralized customer data source as a best practice for realizing such returns.

Top-line metrics summarize the impact of bad data in business terms, enable senior managers to properly allocate resources, build support for data quality efforts, and focus efforts to improve and track progress.   This paper by Tom Redman explores what such metrics look like, summarizes the thinking that underlies them, and provides a structured approach for developing them.

This research report examines the nature and importance of data warehouse appliances to the area of business intelligence (BI) and specifically to data warehousing within the information technology (IT) infrastructure of an enterprise.

This study examines the nature and importance of the data warehouse (DW) appliance to the area of business intelligence (BI) and specifically to data warehousing.  This report was prepared by Business Intelligence Network for Teradata.

Inventory buffers are at all-time lows, forecast error is on the rise, and a legacy of make-to-stock manufacturing strategies is crippling the ability of producers to respond to increasing volatility in demand and supply. AMR shares how new demand-driven manufacturing strategies are the answer.

AMR Research weighs in on the need for an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) strategy to effectively leverage information -- not just intuition -- to make better business decisions.  This report identifies the business issues an  EDW addresses, some business and technical requirements of an EDW, the value that can be realized, best practices and some vendors who can help, and implementation requirements.

Lisa Loftis from Intelligent Solutions discusses how the best contact optimization strategies enable timely, relevant and significant customer communications. Communications are prioritized, not based on campaign profitability, but rather on the ability to identify and act on the best things to talk to the customer about today.

Few companies know how to use the data around them. This report from AMR Research helps companies make the transition to use downstream data to make money.

This report reveals insights about analytics as driving competitive differentiation: a dramatic shift in the effect of decision making on customers, demand for real-time information, and distribution of critical decision making up, down, and across the enterprise.

This report by Celent defines customer profitability, elaborates on its importance, and discusses adoption of customer profitability analytics and best practices. It launches into an evaluation of technology providers, provides analysis, and profiles each vendor, elaborating on their attributes.

Teradata provides the most scalable, mature, and flexible EDW solution portfolio on the market, and, through its recently released
2550 and 1550 platforms, offers an increasingly cost-effective solution portfolio for diverse customer requirements.

In a report by AMR Research, Hershey shared its unique approach for implementing SAP APO DP. The company used both Teradata and SAP to maximize the value of demand planning from multiple streams of data.

This detailed report provides the results of a survey taken among members of OAUG, conducted by Unishphere Media in cooperation with Teradata, to measure the scope and adoption of financial reporting technologies. Read more to learn about the information stemming from this study.

This Giga Research IdeaByte provides Giga's definition and examples of Active Data Warehousing. Teradata is recognized early in the note for our leadership in this area. Also, a link to a white paper titled, "Current Practices in Active Data Warehousing" is included under "Relevant Links and Other Sources."

As foundational technologies such as radio frequency identification, global data synchronization and basic computing power evolve, new business practices are emerging that will fundamentally change the way that retail value chains plan and respond to consumers.

This AMR Alert analyzes the partnership of Teradata and Information Resources, Inc. The Alert defines the two solutions Teradata and IRI will be jointly offering and provides what AMR views as the key benefits of the partnership and combined solutions.

The worldwide business intelligence tools market is expected to continue to grow at a healthy compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11% over the next five years. The following comments by Dan Vesset, IDC's Business Analytics research, address questions posed by the IDC global study on business intelligence sponsored by Teradata Corporation.

Forrester Research highlights EDW best practices that push the scalability and performance envelope without sacrificing agility.

The bottom line of this report by AMR Research is to make MDM improvement projects part of each significant business initiative with an explicit plan and framework for piecing together a full solution over several years.

This report describes a range of technology best practices for management master data and its system of record, plus organizational best practices that are key to success, like data governance, stewardship, and architecture.

This independent report, from an MDM-focused consultancy, reviews Teradata MDM from all angles: workflow, Excel integration, SAP integration, pricing approach, CDI/PIM applications, and customer deployments at Intel and Wachovia.

This AMR Research report discusses how organizations are shifting away from data marts toward enterpise data warehousing for "real-time" or "active decision-making".   It recognizes Teradata and the success our customers have had in creating a "single version of the truth."

To discover the latest views and trends in predictive analytics, as well as suggestions for how your enterprise can enjoy benefits from predictive analytics while it is still in its early-adopter phase, download this report.

This report summarizes trends in the use of analytics in retail across eighteen different categories, as well as several more emerging analytical activities. It is based on interviews with 33 retailers, more than 25 retail analytics experts, and the published literature. For each analytical trend, the description, state of maturity, underlying rationale, and several exemplars in using the trend are presented.

Overview: This research report by Thomas Davenport discusses analytical options and trends in the retailing industry and opportunities available to retailers that adopt this approach.

2009 will be anything but business as usual, with this recession predicted to go longer and be more profound than any other in most of our lifetimes. What should companies do in response? The answer is simple: improve capabilities to better sense demand. Companies need to reduce demand latency to see the upturn quicker. If not, decisions will be made two weeks too late.

AMR Research note on Teradata and SAP announcing their intent to jointly deliver SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW), which will run on Teradata’s enterprise data warehouse.

While organizational obstacles and product maturity prevent a sudden approach to Master Data Management (MDM) today, companies must pursue MDM in short-term pieces, with an understanding of needs across departments, between enterprises, and among industries. Product Information Management (PIM) is a worthwhile place to start.

Executives from top companies, including Teradata customer, Keith Henry of Coca-Cola Bottling, discuss with AMR Research the state and organizational issues involved in becoming more demand driven.

TDWI study examines business intelligence next steps beyond reporting: understanding analytics.

According to Ventana Research, data stores must evolve to become an enterprise hub that manages a constant information flow. This report highlights how Teradata’s 12.0 addresses the demand for real-time analytics and operational Business Intelligence (BI).

AMR's Data Warehouse analyst, Paul Kirby, closes this with "… For business users struggling to perform analysis across multiple data sources… We recommend companies using R/3 to seriously consider the BW/Teradata combination as part of an overall enterprise data warehousing strategy."

Teradata acquired existing partner DecisionPoint Software for an undisclosed sum. The deal was announced and closed on November 30, 2005.

This report by AMR Resarch states that starting in October 2005, Teradata was to begin to offer additions to its industry data models to include Accounts Payable (A/P), Accounts Receivable (A/R), Procurement, Fixed Assets, and Project Accounting—putting more “E” in its Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) strategy.

This report by Ventana Research discusses Teradata's Extension into Enterprise Marketing. Teradata is known for its data warehouse technology and for offerings that address critical business intelligence and enterprise needs.  Yet it also has staked out a position in the market for customer management (CM) applications.  

This industry analyst research note highlights the Teradata Supply Chain Accelerator for SAP solution. The power of detailed and historical data is harnessed to drive more accurate and more frequent planning and helps SAP SCM users gain active business intelligence about their supply chains.

In June 2005, European analyst firm, Bloor Research, issued an evaluation report on Teradata.  It is a thorough report detailing Teradata's approach to the market, its complementary solutions, its hardware and database architecture approach, and its extension into active data warehousing.

Teradata Demand Chain Management is singled out in this AMR research note by Scott Langdoc for integrating both demand-driven promotion and inventory planning into its solution; a characteristic that is not found in any other retail software suites.

This AMR Research report identifies five infrastructure projects that AMR recommends its end user clients prioritize for 2003.  Data mart consolidation is among them, and Teradata is identified as the market leader for DMC! ..."Teradata is on terra firma when it comes to EDW."  The criteria for the priorities AMR identified are:  opportunities to increase the utility of existing information assets, significant cost savings and relatively quick implementations.

This report by AMR Research defines the four core DDSN capabilities, the four stages of organizational performance management maturity and then discusses the downstream data roadmap.

From META Group analyst Charlie Garry: Although data warehousing, as a concept, has been practiced for years, increasing competitive requirements to make better, timelier decisions are driving the growth of the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) market.

To build an enhanced loyalty program, retailers need to develop and deploy a second-generation loyalty strategy to influence desired purchase behavior and ultimately reward their best customers.  This AMR Research note covers vendor companies who help build these loyalty programs in the Retail industry.

This report describes the evolution of operational BI, the components of an operational BI solution, and the experiences of four companies that have implemented real-world, operational BI solutions.

AMR Research analysts Lora Cecere and Colin Mason author this note about their observations of the leading companies who do Demand Driven Supply Network (DDSN) best.