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Teradata Partners
Microsoft Alliance Contact
Karl Dittman
248-797-3113
E-mail: Karl.Dittman@microsoft.com

Teradata Alliance Contact
Wendy Engelmann
714-907-0002
E-mail: Wendy.Engelmann@Teradata.com

Microsoft Corporation

Company Profile

Founded in 1975, Microsoft® (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

  • $60 billion revenue, FY08
  • Over 91,000 employees
  • Operating in over 100 countries worldwide
  • A market leader in business intelligence (Gartner Magic Quadrant 2008)

http://www.microsoft.com/bi/

Product/Service Description

Microsoft Business Intelligence Technologies — Microsoft offers a broad set of business intelligence (BI) technologies that include:
  • Microsoft SQL Server® Enterprise Edition (2005/2008), which includes
    • Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services for real-time what-if analysis via OLAP
    • Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services for formatted and self-service reporting
    • Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services for Data Integration/ETL
  • Microsoft PerformancePoint™ Server for:
    • Interactive drill-down analysis and visualization of multidimensional data
    • Scorecarding, Dashboarding and Alerting
    • Budgeting and Planning
  • Microsoft Office® System - including Microsoft Office Excel® client and server for analysis and visualization; and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for portal, search and document management
Microsoft Windows Server®
  • Teradata EDW (MPP & SMP) fully supported on Windows®
  • Teradata applications running on Windows
  • .NET® Extensibility via Teradata .NET Data Provider (Visual Studio® 2005 Integration)
Business Intelligence Business Pains Addressed

Companies today need to provide their employees with reliable access to the information they need to make informed decisions so they can respond swiftly and appropriately to changing conditions that impact their business. These organizations have the need to deploy business intelligence quickly, easily and with minimal training required, without sacrificing performance, reliability or the ability to scale as their enterprise data grows. Microsoft BI technologies enable users to surface key business information contained within Teradata EDW via popular Office tools. Those who will be interested in the synergy between Teradata and Microsoft technologies are:
  • Customers looking for an easy-to-deploy, low-cost business intelligence solution with unparalleled performance and scalability
  • Customers seeking to unlock and deliver the valuable detailed and historical data to all employees in the enterprise
  • Customers planning on rolling out cost effective BI-based solutions to all employees
  • Business users with requirements to access consistent and detailed data regardless of the delivery channel
  • Operational users with requirements to access real-time business data and business events
Joint Solutions Between Microsoft and Teradata

Combined technologies from Microsoft and Teradata provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, high performance and very scalable business intelligence and data warehousing solution that enables customers to reduce cost and increase revenue by gaining valuable business insights from enterprise data, using familiar tools.

The combined solution set allows customers to standardize on two key technologies for analytics across the enterprise. Combining these best-of-breed technologies from two top-rated vendors gives the customer a low risk solution with best-in-class feature/functionality and low total cost of ownership. This enables organizations to deliver more intelligence to executive, analytical and operational BI users.

Benefits of Microsoft and Teradata Working Together

The joint Microsoft and Teradata BI solutions will enable customers to:
  • Leave the data where it resides
  • Leverage the power of the Teradata EDW for data-intensive workloads
  • Deploy Microsoft BI solutions for the masses
Key benefits for the joint solution:
  • Easier implementation of Microsoft BI solutions into Teradata EDW
  • Improved performance and scalability from Microsoft-Teradata integration
  • Faster availability and easier adoption of new Microsoft and Teradata feature releases, because of Teradata and Microsoft engineering collaboration
  • Delivery of key business data to the people best placed to leverage it, through their preferred productivity tools
  • Increased breadth and depth of data delivered to the business users and the front line workers
  • Reduced data latency between the time the data is captured and the time the data is delivered to the users

Features/Additional Resources
* Teradata & Microsoft Joint Solution -  PDF
White Papers
* SQL Server 2005 Functionality & Performance Testing with Teradata V12 - PDF
English, Japanese, Chinese
* Improve Your OLAP Environment with Microsoft and Teradata -  PDF
* Accessing large scale ROLAP environments with Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 -  PDF
* SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services with the .NET Framework Data Provider for Teradata -  PDF
* IDC Discussion of Teradata and Microsoft BI Partnership -  PDF
Events
* Microsoft Silver Sponsor at the Teradata 2008 Partners Event - October 12, 2008
* Teradata Silver Sponsor at Microsoft BI Conference - October 6, 2008
Articles
* Teradata Magazine 12/07 - "All in a day's work" - Teradata partners with Microsoft to provide business intelligence for the masses.
* Teradata Magazine 12/07 - "The power of enterprise integration" - Microsoft .NET
* Teradata Magazine 9/07 - "At the core of the Teradata platform"
* Teradata Magazine 6/07 - "An Intelligent Partnership" - Microsoft and Teradata partner to give users better analysis and reporting tools.
* Teradata Magazine 12/06 - "Composite applications and the Teradata EDW" - Microsoft .NET
Web Seminars
* Combining Microsoft BI with the Teradata Warehouse
Press Releases
* New Teradata Platform Family Supported by Industry Leaders
* Microsoft and Teradata Collaborate to Offer Business Intelligence Solutions for Mutual Customers
Podcast
* Karl Dittman, Business Development Director of Microsoft discusses the Teradata/Microsoft Partnership -  Podcast
* Scott Collins of Teradata discusses the Microsoft and Teradata partnership -  Podcast



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