Many companies rely on up to 1,000 terabytes of data for transactional and operational business, and this data is often stored in hundreds of locations across the globe. The capability to analyze this data, spread across an enterprise, turns information into actionable business intelligence.

Integration between Teradata and SAP - the world's foremost business software provider, is key to successfully enabling the benefits of SAP Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA). By integrating Teradata and SAP, companies can quickly access detailed information to make optimized decisions, using the most powerful technology infrastructure that focuses on the analysis of business requirements.

The partnership offers:

• Teradata Virtual Access solution for use with SAP Business Information Warehouse
• Teradata Application-to-Application Integration for use with SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure and Master Data Management
• Teradata Certification with SAP Open Hub Service and SAP Universal Data Connect
• Teradata Metadata-to-Metadata Integration
• Teradata Application-to-Data Integration, and
• Teradata Application Platform is Powered by SAP NetWeaver

Plus, Teradata complements SAP with certified and integrated solutions that can be tailored to fit your specific business needs. Benefits include:

• No limit to data size or complexity
• Leverages Teradata's strengths in scalability, performance, and flexibility
• Provides the lowest total cost of ownership for BI solutions
• Teradata consolidates both SAP and non-SAP data sources and more efficiently stores data, reducing both processing and database administration costs
• Thousands of users can access all of the detailed data - in real-time
• Query both detailed and summary level data, enabling richer and deeper analysis
• Information views through existing end-user BI tools and SAP