Teradata

Financial institutions can benefit from Active Event Management technology, an integrated data environment, and near real-time rules-based risk monitoring and alerting.

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.

This white paper by Dr. Richard Hackathorn focuses on three key customers: e-Bay, Unum Provident, and SUPERVALU, and it assesses whether active data warehousing has become an integral part of their enterprise architecture. It also discusses how they see ADWpractices evolving in the coming years. This paper is an update to Dr. Hackathorn’s 2002 white paper that interviewed customers who were in the early stages of implementing active data warehousing. This current study shows how ADW is becoming mainstream in large organizations.

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.

Teradata Warehouse Miner can be used for several common data quality assurance processes, with particular emphasis on data quality assessment. Users of Teradata Warehouse Miner perform data quality functions without additional hardware, software, and associated data management processes.

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.

Sid Adelman, an independent consultant, provides a fair, balanced view of how to properly conduct a benchmark and what a prospective customer should expect from their benchmarking efforts.  This paper shows how one customer successfully conducted a benchmark.

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 emphasizes the importance of high-quality data, contrasts competing approaches for managing data quality, clarifies who must lead the data quality program, and helps business managers understand how to improve data quality.

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

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 a method of visual modeling to support understanding and planning of the Enterprise Data Warehouse.

Enterprise data warehouses combined with advanced reporting and business intelligence tools will allow the leaders within the Financial Services community to develop robust, flexible, and automated measurement systems and further exploit the opportunities presented by Event-Based Marketing.

Read the "Financial Performance Management for the 21st Century" white paper now, to see Ventana's recommendations for CFO organizations, and the crucial role that the enterprise data warehouse plays in providing critical financial performance management capabilities.

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.

For Teradata users transitioning to active data warehousing, Priority Scheduler is key to managing diverse work in a single database. It offers a built-in, flexible solution to sharing database resources - a key component for any data warehousing effort.

Knowing about your business sooner, rather than later, provides a competitive edge and enables you to better manage through unexpected situations. Learn why the accepted industry wisdom about low-latency data is rapidly shifting.

Top performing managers rely on more than plans and forecasts. To close the critical gap in planning, performance, and accountability, you'll need to adopt proactive risk management.

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).

Today, data warehouses must absorb new data in near-real time and provide extraordinary performance, squeezing most of the latency out of the process. Being able to provide fresher data enables the data warehouse, in turn, to participate in ongoing operational processes.

This white paper helps answer the key questions about migrating from Oracle to a Teradata solution by profiling three of the more than 150 Oracle customers who have already done so.

Synchronize information for increased agility, productivity, active leadership, and competitive advantage. 

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.

This white paper, by James Taylor and Neil Raden, discusses the need for companies to become decision centric by adopting enterprise decision management techniques and technology. It also outlines the benefits of adopting EDM, as well as the risks and issues with adopting EDM and applying technology to automating and improving operational decision making .

This white paper, by James Taylor and Neil Raden, discusses the need for companies to become decision centric by adopting enterprise decision management techniques and technology. It also outlines the benefits of adopting EDM, as well as the risks and issues with adopting EDM and applying technology to automating and improving operational decision making .

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.

Teradata Plug-in for Eclipse allows developers to leverage the Eclipse IDE to quickly generate Teradata Database objects and Java code. Within a single tool, developers can browse their databases, create objects and Java code, test applications, and run stored procedures

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.

The real cost of the data warehouse is not in the cost of acquiring the software (operating system and DBMS), but in application development and overall management effort. This paper shows you the savings that accrue when constructing your data warehouse using a Teradata Database.

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.

This paper analyzes the root causes for data mart proliferation. It presents a method for developing a data mart consolidation plan and illustrates the potential cost savings and revenue enhancement opportunities resulting from consolidating disparate data marts onto a single, integrated data warehouse.

This white paper presents a high-level description of Teradata's Real-Time Enterprise Reference Architecture.

The business value question becomes important during the planning and budgeting season. While you may have a handle on what you are spending, you may not understand the benefits you're receiving from the expenditure. An assessment will show you the linkage between technology and revenue generation.

Teradata MLDM provides the blueprint of the structure and standardization you need to address your most crucial business questions.

Learn more about how airlines using a Passenger Name Record (PNR) data warehouse can analyze complete, current, and historic data, providing them with information that supports a broad range of capabilities including revenue management and customer management.