Teradata

Market demands for major Aerospace and Defense Original Equipment Manufacturers, also called Systems Integrators (SIs), are changing. The market is evolving from a product development and delivery model to one focusing on lifecycle sustainment. Market demands for SIs are shifting to a performance-based business with agile management of lifecycle product and support services. Traditional approaches to business and production information management ill-equip SIs to support the higher levels of data capture, business intelligence and decision support that integrated customer product sustainment requires. Success in this changing market requires SIs to leverage enormous volumes of data into proactive business intelligence. Market leadership will require leveraging these best-practice capabilities while achieving agility and efficiency through integration – and standardization of data and systems while accommodating some of the largest extended enterprises operating today.

Success in sustainment market delivery requires detailed views of enterprise data that can scale to support emerging demands. An adequate integrated technical solution combines enterprise active data warehousing, robust analytics, and broad-based data collection including radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies and services. Getting the most from these technology investments calls for detailed attention to quality implementation and support services. Key areas of expertise required include process engineering and integration, implementation, program and process management, change management, and end-user training and support.

Teradata Corporation and BearingPoint® are uniquely qualified to provide solutions and services to help SIs make this critical business transition. Together, Teradata and BearingPoint provide the technical and process capability to generate true business improvement and positive ROI. Both companies bring a record of successful implementation across the global Aerospace and Defense industry supporting their commitment to delivering value rapidly and efficiently.

SIs face a number of operational challenges compounded by the size and complexity of their products, services, and business networks. These include:

• Data growth from improving source technologies.
• Government mandates including RFID.
• Performance-based business models driving product and performance risk back onto SIs.
• Management visibility across enterprise networks and product lifecycles.
• Systems integration supporting advanced enterprise and specialized transactional systems.
• Legacy consolidation to streamline information and business process systems.

SIs can leverage a combination of technical and process improvements to effectively meet evolving challenges.

An enterprise data warehouse brings together all of a company's data into a single repository with unlimited scalability for a completely integrated, 360-degree view of your business featuring near-realtime access to data at the atomic level, a full suite of data access and management tools, and robust data mining capabilities including ad-hoc query capabilities.

Supply Chain Management Solutions can help achieve faster time-to-market for products and services, global growth, and migration to web-enabled systems. Some of the global benefits include:

• Reduce costs and increase profits with reengineered business processes, improved operational efficiency, and global inventory management.
• Reduce overall supply chain risk by optimizing information flows and infrastructure investments.
• Create visibility into the total interorganization supply chain by sharing applications and data with trusted business partners via the internet.
• Deliver products to market faster by gaining better control of the entire product lifecycle.
• Support future growth by managing and scaling combined operations.

Financial Management Solution integrates data from multiple financial operations systems and quickly transforms it into valuable business insight. Enterprise users will be able to perform real-time financial analysis and make more effective decisions through a single view of the data.

• Identify financial and operational risk earlier.
• Enable the CFO organization to help drive operational efficiencies throughout the company.
• Ensure that the accounting environment meets all levels of compliance.
• Faster and more comprehensive financial analysis with a single view of the business.

Program and Project Management leveraging the BearingPoint Enterprise Program Management framework helps achieve a number of significant benefits, some of which include:

• Leading practices eliminating the need to "reinvent the wheel" every time you start a new project.
• Broad-based teams with the capability to successfully manage and deliver projects.
• Timely and accurate performance metrics measuring stakeholder delivery expectations.
• Consistent project process and techniques and continuous process improvement as part of the project management culture leading to minimized project cycle time and maximizing probability of successful project completion.

Business Systems Integration Services help organizations integrate all aspects of their value chain and unlock the unrealized value that commonly exists due to static operating models, misalignment between technology and enterprise strategy, and undervaluing customers as corporate assets. Through this solution, we assist clients in capturing their unrealized value, and position them to maximize value in the future, by integrating all components of the organization's value chain and by aligning strategy, operations, people, and technology.

The Teradata Customer Management Solution integrates advanced analytics with sophisticated event-driven communications for highly profitable value propositions and customer treatments.

Teradata Profitability Analytics provides multiple measurements and views of profitability. Instead of using traditional averages and summary information, Teradata® Profitability Analytics uses detailed data to calculate the current and lifetime values of customers, products, and services.

The Teradata SeeChain is a collection of analytic applications that delivers maximum visibility into the entire supply chain. Teradata SeeChain helps management dramatically improve efficiency by collecting disparate data from across the enterprise to measure the daily performance of critical processes to feed planning, and by monitoring those processes, to ensure accurate execution. Equipping people at every level of the organization to solve complex business issues is the strength of the detailed, cross-functional analytics found in the Teradata SeeChain.

Market-Specific Requirements for configuration management, reliability and maintainability data and analysis, and operations and maintenance transaction histories are all improved through an advanced, flexible, and scalable data warehousing solution. Advanced data warehousing provides the engine for collaborative, alert-driven information management across product communities.

RFID solutions, readers and tags, system maintenance and support, Logical Data Models, and specialized software applications help the SI deliver end-to-end item visibility. RFID enables better customer service, inventory reduction, reduced item loss, and decreased logistics costs. The Teradata and BearingPoint team includes production investments leading to RFID media with reliability levels approaching near 100%, EPC Global membership, founding membership in the Auto ID Center, and RFID labs and solution centers in Atlanta, GA, and Ft.Worth, TX.

By leveraging RFID as a source of data for driving business intelligence and process improvement, you can move from RFID as a cost of doing business to RFID as a lever of performance and profitability improvement.

Maximizing the benefits of technical solutions depends on the effectiveness of implementation activities before, during, and after new technology implementations. The Teradata and BearingPoint team delivers the resources and experience needed to successfully and effectively deliver sustainment management information solutions including process analysis, configuration, end-user training, and support and change management.

Successful sustainment operations call for a global network of support service technicians supporting maximum operational availability. Providers must offer a broad spectrum of service capabilities with flexible service levels.

Software services and maintenance provides SIs the resources, processes, tools, and technologies to ensure IT solutions deliver superior value. Our global presence and experience allows us to deliver a comprehensive portfolio of services focused on vital systems, networks, software, and security.

Technical services and maintenance supported by a global network of technicians and parts inventories minimizes infrastructure down time for critical data warehousing and RFID infrastructure.

Capability

Teradata and BearingPoint have extensive expertise delivering business improvement, data warehousing, and systems integration for Aerospace and Defense customers, as well as an extensive list of industry-leading clients. Our proven record of successfully-supported business change, solutions sets and methodologies, and technical products uniquely position us to drive improvements into your organization.

ROI

We have the ability to move RFID from a cost of doing business to a valuable tool for leveraging improvements in information collection and management, and improving lifecycle sustainment business operations. The resulting capability enhancements drive both top and bottom-line business improvements through access to new markets and lower overall ownership costs for SIs and their customers.

For more information, contact your Teradata representative.