The Teradata team was busy with announcements last week at the annual PARTNERS User Group Conference – from the world’s first solid state data warehouse appliance to new Cloud Computing and vertical industry offers. The headlines below give you other highlights of media coverage of the PARTNERS Conference story. Check out the stories below, and go to www.teradata.com for more on the new announcements.
Since PARTNERS 2009 took place in Washington, D.C., we had government-focused sessions and an event at the National Press Club for government-focused media. Here are a few of the stories:
National Press Club Luncheon: The Role of Technology in Achieving Government Transparency from Teradata on Vimeo.
We ended the week with a great article in Barron’s Magazine. I guess this headline refers to pterodactyl, the flying dinosaur. Actually, the only thing Teradata and that dinosaur have in common is Greek roots for the names. But that’s OK – I loved the Barron’s article. Just read the first couple of paragraphs and you’ll see why:
- Sounds Like a Dinosaur, but It’s No Small-Brainer
“Thousands of technology geeks representing some of the biggest companies in the world gathered at a convention center in Washington last week to swap stories, compare notes and make wish lists about their experiences with data warehousing and analytic software applications. Oh, and they had something else in common: they are all clients or partners of Teradata , the undisputed leader in the field of business intelligence. Known as the Partners Conference, the event is the world's biggest confab for data-warehousing and data-mining specialists. Some of Teradata's biggest competitors, including Oracle (ticker: ORCL) and International Business Machines (IBM), ponied up big bucks for the chance to impress the attendees last week -- at the 24th annual meeting of what started as an informal user group of about 25 people.
“In the 30 years since it was incorporated, the result of a collaboration between researchers at CalTech and the technology group at Citibank, Teradata (TDC) has been helping companies gain a competitive edge by analyzing the raw data from their business operations, identifying inefficiencies and providing solutions using super-fast and super-sophisticated software applications.”
If you want to read more about all the announcements we made last week, check out our Conference Newsroom – a lot of good info here on customer wins and partnerships as well.
I’ll share more highlights in another posting, but as you can tell, we had a great event. Look forward to 2010 in San Diego!
Darryl
