NCR's Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) initiative was critical to the company's successful transformation from a primarily hardware focused and country-centric organizational model to an integrated, solution-oriented business structure with a global focus. What's more it would be vital to the successful deployment of a new worldwide, single-instance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system planned for several years later.

The returns have already been superb. The financial close cycle was reduced from 14 days to six and worldwide reporting integrity standards were established. Plus NCR has realized $10M annual savings in inventory carrying costs, $200M sustainable reduction in accounts receivable, $50M reduction in annual finance costs, and $22M cost savings over the first five years of the EDW implementation for Worldwide Customer Services. Not only has the EDW project proved to be more than self-funding at the project cost level, but revenue generation is around the corner. To learn about NCR's success using Teradata's Finance & Performance Management solution view the video.