Teradata Continues Significant Momentum Worldwide Entering 2006

DAYTON, Ohio - Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), the global leader in enterprise intelligence, announced today that it continues to experience growth in its customer base, growth in its solution portfolio, and growth in its partnerships.

"Teradata has experienced another strong year of profitable growth," said Bob Fair, chief marketing officer for Teradata. "Our continuing market momentum underscores the fact that enterprise intelligence is the basis for competitive edge, required for business success and now a top priority for senior business leaders. Centralized enterprise data warehousing is the best approach, and Teradata is the best provider of centralized enterprise data warehousing. We are pleased that our growth validates this need."

"Advanced, in-database analytical capabilities running in a cost-effective enterprise-class data warehouse will become one of the single most powerful drivers of competitive business advantage in 2006 and the foreseeable future," said John Van Decker, senior vice president and principal research fellow with Robert Frances Group. "Many of our clients have sought out Teradata for data warehouse capability. With what is a clearly growing array of enthusiastic customer references and momentum in product delivery and enhancement, many firms will seek out Teradata to provide advanced enterprise intelligence given its increasingly strong value proposition."

The following is a summary of Teradata business achievements since the beginning of 2005.

New Teradata customers and major upgrades across industries, across the world
Teradata continues to add scores of new customers in a broad range of industries. An impressive number of existing customers also invested further in Teradata Warehouses, solutions and services, including many multi-terabyte upgrades. New and upgrading customers announced since January 2005 include:

Financial Services: ABN AMRO (Asia), Caixanova Bank (Spain), China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation, St.George Bank (Australia), Shanghai Stock Exchange (China).
Retail and Hospitality: Bed Bath & Beyond, Cabela's Inc., Charming Shoppes, Inc., dodenhof (Germany), Hallmark Cards, H-E-B, hhgregg, Lowe's, Menard's, Metro Group (Germany), Mohegan Sun, Overstock.com, Silverton Casino Hotel Lodge, Ukrop's, XXXLutz (Austria).
Communications, Media and Entertainment: Guangdong Mobile Communications Corporation (China), Meredith Corporation, SUNDAY Communications Limited (Hong Kong), Yunnan Telecom (China).
Travel and Transportation: LAN Airlines (Chile), Lufthansa (Germany), South African Airways.
Insurance and Healthcare: British United Provident Association, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital Corporation of America, Inc., Life Insurance Corporation (India).
Government, Public Institutions: The American Red Cross, State of New Jersey Dept. of Treasury, State of Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Manufacturing, Distribution, Services: Chi Mei Optoelectronics (Taiwan), DaimlerChrysler Services North America LLC, Fuji Photo Film (Japan), Repsol - YPF SA (Spain).

Expanding solution portfolio for enterprise data warehousing
Since the beginning of 2005, Teradata has introduced new analytic applications, products and acquired solutions which enhance its portfolio as well as customer capabilities.

Teradata® Warehouse 8.1 is the latest data warehousing solution suite of software, hardware and consulting services, with new capabilities that make it easier to build and manage the next generation of active data warehouses that drive enterprise intelligence throughout the organization. The suite supports capabilities from both traditional and new operational analytical applications.
The NCR 5400 Server accelerates the Teradata® Warehouse performance by 20 percent, the first server capable of scaling to 4.2 petabytes.
Linux is now a supported operating system for Teradata.
Introduced the Teradata Manufacturing Logical Data Model (MLDM) 3.0 and Teradata Transportation Logical Data Model (Trans LDM) 2.0. A logical data model is the table of data used to create information to support the functions, processes and tasks being performed within an organization. Teradata LDMs leverage the best practices of industry leaders and are essential for building an efficient, flexible enterprise data warehouse.
Announced the expansion of Teradata Finance and Performance Management (F&PM) Logical Data Models to include accounts receivable, accounts payable, procurement, fixed assets and project accounting domains. Teradata's acquisition of DecisionPoint Software improves the ability to integrate data from financial and nonfinancial sources in near real-time.
Introduced Teradata Application Platform 1.2, a component development and deployment tool enabling companies to quickly build robust applications.
Introduced Teradata Relationship Manager Version 6, a new browser-based marketing software suite. This componentized solution enables personalized multi-step, multi-channel customer dialogues with sophisticated event triggers, as well as increased analytical queries in automated campaigns.
Introduced Teradata® Demand Chain Management Release 3.2, which enhances the demand forecasting and replenishment application with a Load Builder feature that optimizes supply truck space by synchronizing order and delivery requirements. A new Capacity Planning tool optimizes the logistics of distribution centers, predicting bottlenecks and offering intelligent options.
Extended Teradata's Demand Chain Management and Supply Chain Intelligence solution offerings, acquiring the SeeChain application which provides visibility to item-/location- level detail and the ability to monitor, measure, manage and analyze supply chain operations to act on exceptions.

New and evolving partnership activities enhance Teradata customer capabilities
Teradata continues to add, develop and expand partner relationships and partner analytic solutions optimized for Teradata.

In 2005, Teradata announced a complete suite of Teradata solutions which have received SAP integration certification. Several Teradata solutions have also achieved integration with SAP NetWeaver, which allows for ease of use between SAP and Teradata technologies.
In the business intelligence and analytic applications space, the division continued to optimize the solutions of partners such as Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy and Siebel Business Analytics to provide our customers with a broad range of choice in tools and applications that complement and leverage Teradata's scalable database technology. Activity with these partners continues to grow as customers seek to standardize their business intelligence solutions across the enterprise, enabled by Teradata's centralized EDW platform.
In addition, Teradata announced several new partnerships including Attensity, a provider of text analytics solutions that enable computers to understand and process free-form text; i2 Technologies, Inc., a provider of demand-driven supply chain solutions, Protegrity, a provider of data security management solutions; and Sunopsis, a provider of enterprise integration software.
Teradata also continues to advance solutions in the risk management space adding partnerships with Algorithmics, IRIS Risk Pro, and Sungard.
Teradata's systems integrator (SI) partnerships with Accenture, BearingPoint, Capgemini, Deloitte, and EDS continue to lead to new joint solution opportunities. Highlights include jointly developed offerings as Supply Chain Sustainment (TechOps/MRO) with BearingPoint and Business Objects; Accenture's Information Management Solution (AIMS), and a Wealth Management solution with Capgemini.

Offers and portfolio growth in Teradata Professional and Customer Services
Teradata Professional Services and Customer Services expanded their portfolios to stay ahead of the accelerating trend in active data warehousing. With more business-critical applications running on Teradata Warehouses, high levels of system availability are imperative.

This resulted in an expansion of Teradata Business Continuity Services offers including Dual Active, Disaster Recovery Center enhancements, and a new Availability Assessment that identifies the features and techniques needed to support mission-critical applications. The move to active data warehousing has led to an increase in Performance and Capacity consulting services.
Teradata Managed Services were introduced globally. This comprehensive suite of services supports the entire lifecycle of the Teradata Warehouse. Teradata Managed Services combines hardware and software support, operations and production support, and business continuity support. These services include best practices in service level agreement management, consolidated reporting, and issue escalation management.
Teradata continued to grow its offshore Global Consulting Centers (GCC) to supplement local area consulting teams by tapping into the accumulated wealth of our global knowledge base. GCC's are staffed with professionals trained in Teradata solutions methodology.

Other Teradata business and solution highlights in 2005
In addition to achieving two years of profitable growth, Teradata was recognized by dozens of analysts, publications and customer groups for its leadership in providing reliable and enduring data warehousing and enterprise intelligence solutions.

Teradata was selected by Intelligent Enterprise magazine as one of the most influential global technology providers and named the leader in customer intelligence. Teradata was also named to the magazine's "Dozen" - a list of elite vendors that provide exceptional vision, technology innovation and business intelligence leadership.
Teradata was recognized for achieving strong above-market growth in the global software market for relational database management systems (RDBMS) in 2004. Research firm Gartner, Inc., estimated that the overall RDBMS software market grew 10.3 percent in 2004 while Teradata's new license sales revenue growth was estimated at 17 percent.
In its new Server Scorecard Evaluation Model (SEM), Gartner awarded Teradata a near-perfect score in the Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing (BI/DW) category. Overall, Teradata is ranked # 1.
Teradata was awarded top honors in the 2005 DM Review World Class Solution Awards in the Business Intelligence category - with enterprise data warehouse Teradata client Verizon Wireless.

"We continue to invest to drive further growth and to extend our lead in enterprise intelligence," Fair added. "Our market-leading performance is helping to accelerate our investments in technology, analytic solutions, partnerships and people - all to help our customers extract the most value from enterprise data warehousing."

About Teradata Division

Teradata, (www.teradata.com) a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), is the global technology leader in enterprise data warehousing, analytic applications and data warehousing services. Organizations around the world rely on the power of Teradata's award-winning solutions to get a single, integrated view of their business to enhance decision-making, customer relationships and profitability.

About NCR Corporation

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a leading global technology company helping businesses build stronger relationships with their customers. NCR's Teradata® data warehouses and ATMs, retail systems, self service solutions and IT services provide Relationship Technology™ that maximize the value of customer interactions and help organizations create a stronger competitive position. Based in Dayton, Ohio, NCR (www.ncr.com) employs approximately 28,200 people worldwide.

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