Press Release
Metro Group Expands Collaboration with Teradata - 4/21/2008
Leading global retailer grows its platform for strategic reporting and data analysis
LISBON, Portugal — Teradata Corporation (NYSE:TDC), the global leader in enterprise data warehousing, announced today that Metro Group, one of the world's largest retailers, continues to expand its Teradata platform to generate analytical business intelligence. The system continuously captures and integrates detailed data from a growing number of business programs and subsidiaries across Europe, Asia and Africa. The system includes software and hardware and is supported by Teradata professional services.
For more than a decade, the Teradata platform has supported Metro's thought leadership in managing and leveraging complex information for deep business visibility and enterprise-class insight. Metro relies on it to collect and analyze a wide variety of detailed data to create powerful intelligence for decision support as well as financial reporting and customer management.
"Our international data warehouse, built on the Teradata platform, is an integral part of our corporate strategy to generate more value with targeted customer relationship management and category management in Europe and beyond," said Heinz-Josef Boeck, CEO of Metro Group Information Technology GmbH. "As our international data warehouse has been growing country by country, Teradata's highly scalable technology has proven to be of great business value, providing high performance under very demanding business circumstances. Teradata reliably handles growing data volumes while supporting mixed workloads and many concurrent users."
Presently, the international data warehouse integrates data from Metro's subsidiaries in 30 countries across Europe.
"Metro is a global leader and innovator in using enterprise intelligence for business benefit — and we are delighted that they have found Teradata to be a reliable source of advanced analytical power," said Hermann Wimmer, president of Europe, Middle East and Africa, Teradata.
Teradata recently enhanced its customer management portfolio, adding new features and capabilities. These new features include complex offer optimization, extended access to marketing automation, simplified data import capabilities, improved reusability of campaign components and expanded web compatibility. These new capabilities leverage Teradata's global leadership in advanced, data warehouse-driven customer management and deep expertise in marketing automation.
About Metro Group
METRO Group is one of the world's most important international retailing companies. In 2007, it generated around €64 bn in turnover. The group maintains operations in 31 countries at more than 2,200 locations and has a headcount of some 280,000 people. The strength of METRO Group is based on its wholesale and retail brands, which operate independently within their respective markets: Metro/Makro Cash & Carry, the worldwide market leaders in self-service wholesale; Real hypermarkets; Media Markt and Saturn, the European market leaders in consumer electronics; as well as Galeria Kaufhof department stores.
About Teradata
Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) is the world's largest company focused on raising intelligence through data warehousing and enterprise analytics. Teradata is in more than 60 countries and on the web at www.teradata.com.
Teradata is a trademark or registered trademark of Teradata Corporation in the United States and other countries.
