Teradata

Teradata is known for finding new ways to drive down costs and improve performance in our customers data centers. Taking these best practices to heart, Teradata's own data center and CIO, Diana Bolden, is honored this year in DaCEY Awards (Data Center Executive of the Year awards) with the Data Center Design Project Award. Separating from its NCR roots, Teradata's data center redesign reduced its complexity using server virtualization, an efficient rack cooling system and new storage architectures.

InformationWeek has identified and honored the nation's most innovative users of information technology with its annual listing, now in its 20th year, and has tracked the technology, strategies, investments and administrative practices of America's best-known companies. Teradata ranks 22nd in the list for its use of innovation to improve productivity, provide data warehouse solutions to our customers in a consistent and predictable manner, and Teradata's innovative technology in ETL.

Teradata Corporation is honored in the annual Food Logistics 100 featuring top technology solution providers that serve the needs of a unique segment of the food service industry.

The Aberdeen Group, a leading provider of fact-based research focused on the global technology-driven value chain, named Teradata in their Top 100 Most Influential Technology Vendors for 2008. The Annual State of the Market Report out from the analyst group showcases the results of five years of research and up-to-date insight from 4,645 snapshot survey respondents.

Teradata was once again voted within the top 10 ranking list of "Business Intelligence" providers at #7 — up one ranking from January 2007. Teradata will be recognized within the Annual Consumer Goods Technology Reader's Choice list to be published in January 2008.

The Brazilian editorial group "Grupo Padrão," which publishes local magazines, confirmed Teradata as DW and BI solution of the year. This prize was given to technology solutions that confirmed business gains to their customers, voted by consulting companies and IT executives. The prize was received by Katia Vaskys, Teradata Brazil Country Manager, in a ceremony with more than 1,000 people from IT and business areas, representing Brazilian top 100 companies. In the same ceremony, the Bradesco IT vice president (Teradata customer since 2004) received the prize IT Executive of the Year. (This link connects to a Portuguese language site.)

Teradata named to Intelligent Enterprise magazine's list of "The Dozen" most influential IT providers in business intelligence. This list of 12 names "The Dozen" elite companies that will matter most to intelligent enterprises in 2008.

With more than 175 joint customers from various industries, Teradata was selected as Technology Partner of the Year for applying its data warehousing solutions to help businesses make better business decisions through a comprehensive single view of business performance. Working together to offer a complete performance management platform, Teradata and Cognos align and enable strategic and operational decision making capabilities across the enterprise by providing scalability, broad user reach, standardized reporting, self-service and proven results.

Commitment to excellence over the past year has earned Teradata recognition as an outstanding supplier to AT&T Inc., one of the world's leading data, voice, wireless and Internet services providers.

Overstock.com, a leading online retailer, and Teradata have been named winners of both the NCDM Database Excellence Gold Award for Technology Applications, and the highest honor, the Platinum Award, for overall database excellence. The awards honor organizations that have demonstrated ingenuity and creativity in leveraging their marketing databases and are presented each year by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and DIRECT Magazine.