Teradata

Itron and Teradata introduce Active Smart Grid Analytics™ — a powerful platform where business value is derived from analytics driven by smart grid information.

This white paper by Barry Devlin proposes Business Integrated Insight or "BI2" as a new architectural model for decision making throughout the enterprise.

This report will help you understand the inherent challenges and available solutions for BI. It discusses common-use cases where SAP and non-SAP products are applied to successful BI solutions.

This white paper by James Markarian, Informatica Chief Technology Officer; Stephen Brobst, Teradata Chief Technology Officer; and Jeff Bedell, MicroStrategy Chief Technology Officer makes recommendations about moving to pervasive BI.

The most-effective way to gain greater business value (delivering consistent, integrated data) is the consolidation of data marts, operational data stores, and other information sources. Doing so not only provides cross-functional data to your users, but also creates a 360-degree view of customers, products and services.

This white paper outlines the general principles and best practices as a starting point for a complete data quality management program. The overarching benefit of this approach will be that all organizational decisions are rooted in the most complete and up-to-date information available.

The Teradata data warehouse maturity assessment is used to define and measure the characteristics of the overall maturity of your data warehousing environment. Learn more about how you can harvest maximum value from your data warehouse.

This paper examines how data warehousing tools and techniques can be applied to the prepaid products and services segment of the telecommunications industry.

Learn how Teradata Meta Data Services makes it possible to provide both technical and business context for the data in the warehouse, identify impact analysis, manage change, foster reuse and provide extensibility to help meet additional metadata management needs.

By recognizing the variation in performance requirements for data managed by the data warehouse, we can implement technologies that will reduce the effective price of data warehouses that contain a large proportion of less frequently accessed historical data.

This white paper describes some of the high-level Teradata business solutions that help to drive customer value and return on investment (ROI) for foodservice companies.

The Teradata approach differs significantly from traditional dual system solutions. The Teradata Dual Active Solution allows you to use the secondary system in day-to-day production, bringing a positive ROI that is unachievable with a passive system that acts only as an insurance policy.

Microsoft and Teradata recognize that customers may want to combine both companies' products when building analytic applications. Learn how to build a relational ROLAP solution on a Teradata implementation, one that can provide deeper and wider analytics without being overly penalized in performance.

The availability of operational reporting in retailing environments can mean the different between a retailer knowing what to do and doing it.

This white paper, by David Loshin of Knowledge Integrity, explores the challenges associated with inconsistent and unsynchronized data within an enterprise data warehouse environment.

Management wants to know the business value of the data warehouse, measured in quantitative terms, with the metrics in the form of Return on Investment (ROI). ROI refers to a few differnet ways of calculating the value of an investment which can be calculated by payback period (break-even analysis), net present value, or rate of return (yield).

This white paper describes two architectural alternatives for the national IT infrastructure, namely distributed database and enterprise data warehousing.

Neil Raden gives guidance in the best way to propose data warehouse/BI expenditures to CEOs/senior management.

William McKnight describes Teradata appliances for mid-size companies' use in data warehousing and business intelligence.

The Teradata Analyst Pack to enables you to analyze and tune your database queries for better performance. Learn more about its benefits, features and specifications.

Statistics show that businesses struck by an unexpected interruption have a strong potential of closing up shop within two years. Are you prepared for the unexpected? Are you prepared to protect and maintain your Teradata system so your business doesn't go under?

This program establishes an industry standard measure of technical competence for IT professionals using Teradata technology.

This white paper defines enterprise analytic data sets and how using them conserves resources, including people and systems. To learn more about the advantages, costs, and benefits of this methodology, download the white paper.

To learn how the Teradata EDWR and LDM combination provides value by ensuring a business-driven perspective to data warehouse design and usage, download the pdf.

The ability to create User Defined Functions is an important enhancement to Teradata Database. This white paper provides a high-level overview of the feature in V2R6 and why it is beneficial.

Teradata is best positioned to provide a cost efficient, flexible, comprehensive end-to-end TREAD Act solution. This data-driven solution is best positioned to help manufacturers avoid the potential cost of fines and product recalls.

It has been a difficult for a database administrator to design and implement database applications that emulate real-world objects or processes using the common structures and data types available in a relational database. Teradata Database now facilitates this object-oriented approach by supporting User-defined Types.