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A Comprehensive Approach to Enterprise Risk Information Management
This whitepaper shows how the quality of data is critical to an effective ERM process and introduces a comprehensive approach to managing data. 
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A Holistic View of Profitability
Teradata Value Analyzer provides you with consistent, accurate profitability analysis so you can truly understand the profitability drivers of your company.
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Business Innovation through Data Integration Changing the Rules of Credit Card Marketing
In the future, credit card issuers will need to create innovative new ways to drive value for the customer. Learn about one such business innovation - one that should attract and increase card usage among a highly desirable segment of the population.
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Business Intelligence Solutions for SAP

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.

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Centralize, Standardize and Simplify
Learn how companies that use an EDW for financial management have shortened their close cycles, reduced overhead, tightened expenses, reduced inventories, and provided managers across the business with the fresh, accurate information needed to quickly make better strategic and tactical decisions. 
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Considerations for Organizations Contemplating an Event-Based Marketing Environment
While it is theoretically possible to implement an EBM environment in a manual way in an isolated banking environment, Teradata offers a unique combination of technology, services, and experience to help your organization achieve best practice and obtain a higher ROI from your customer base faster.
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Critical Success Factors Deploying Pervasive BI

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.

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Data Mart Consolidation and Business Intelligence Standardization: Getting the Most Value Out of Information

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.

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Data Quality Assurance Using Teradata Warehouse Miner

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.

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Data Quality Management: Oft-Overlooked Key to Affordable, High Quality Patient Care

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.

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Data Warehouse Benchmarks: How to Make an Informed Decision, Minimize Risk, and Measure More Than Performance

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.

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Data Warehouse Maturity Assessment Service

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.

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Data Warehouses and Quality: Not Just for IT Anymore

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.

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Data Warehousing for Prepaid Products and Services

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

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Discover Teradata Meta Data Services

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.

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Enabling Multi-Temperature Data in the Data Warehouse

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.

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Enabling the Agile Enterprise with Active Data Warehousing
Learn more about how with an active data warehouse built upon a solid enterprise data warehouse foundation from Teradata, you will be able to extend the power of your data warehouse to a new community of operational employees, partners, and customers.
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Enterprise Data Warehouse Roadmap Modeling for the Communications Industry
The Enterprise Data Warehouse Roadmap is a visual planning model showing the alignment of enterprise strategic goals and objectives through a chain to the supporting data in the enterprise data warehouse. This white paper specifically focuses on the roadmap model content and requirements of the communications industry. 
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Enterprise Data Warehouse Roadmap: A state-of-the-art method

This white paper describes a method of visual modeling to support understanding and planning of the Enterprise Data Warehouse.

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Enterprise Event Management in Banks
The introduction of large decision support databases and data warehouses led to a massive increase in the extent and complexity of event management in the banking industry. Success has been achieved with event management and marketing as well as other areas of the bank.
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Evaluating Enterprise Risk Information Management
As companies continue to tighten their focus on Enterprise Risk Information Management (ERIM), stakeholders continue their demands for even more timely, accurate and comprehensive information. In this whitepaper, learn more about how having the right data can be translated into the right information for the organization.
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Event-Based Marketing Metrics

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.

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Extracting Value from Risk Management
Learn more about how an integrated, centralized, forward-looking approach can deliver on the intent of the new Basel Capital Accord. 
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Fallback Protection: Is it Necessary?
An active data warehouse with fallback enabled provides recovery from pathological failure scenarios. Learn more about how the Teradata Fallback offer achieves levels of single system availability unmatched by other RDBMS vendors. 
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Financial Performance Management for the 21st

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.

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How Teradata Helps the U.S. Food Service Industry

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.

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Improve Your OLAP Environment with Microsoft and Teradata

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.

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Introduction to Priority Scheduler

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.

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Knowing Sooner Rather Than Later: Cost Analysis of Low Latency Data in Enterprise Data Warehousing

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.

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Making Supply Chain Risk Management Part of Your Core Management Process

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.

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Meeting Demands for Data Warehouse Performance

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.

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Rail Network Businesses Demand Robust Solutions
Learn how to improve operations performance, including increased asset utilization, reduced costs, and better analytical coordination. 
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Risk Adjusted Return on Capital: Getting the Data Infrastructure Right!
The fundamental challenge that underpins the management of risk within a large corporation is ensuring that accurate, timely, and functionally relevant data are delivered throughout the enterprise. A data warehouse solution from Teradata can help. 
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Risk Information Management for Complex Financial Products
 Teradata Financial Services solutions for capital markets provide financial institutions with integrated data management technology to help solve enterprise risk information problems for complex securities. 
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Risk Solution Architecture for Regulatory Capital

This white paper discusses risk solution architecture with significant benefits - it not only ensures Basel compliance from the perspective of all three pillars, but also ensures that the investment in Basel can be leveraged to improve business profitability.

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Risk Solution Architecture for Scoring Models and Retail Pooling
To learn more about how a single warehouse platform with a consistent, unified data model can improve risk modeling, risk parameter estimation, and validation processes, download the pdf.
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Securing the Homeland: Through Information Integration, Analysis and Sharing

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

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Teradata Analyst Pack

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.

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Teradata Application Development

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

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Teradata Business Continuity Solutions

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?

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Teradata Certified Professional Program

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

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Teradata Enterprise Analytic Data Set

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.

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Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse Roadmap Model for the Retail Industry
The Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Roadmap is a visual planning model showing the alignment of enterprise strategic goals and objectives linked to the supporting data in the EDW. 
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Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse Roadmaps and Logical Data Models

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.

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Teradata in the Gaming Industry
Leaders in the gaming business have come to realize to meet customer needs and increase revenue means gaining enterprise-wide access to their data. Teradata patron management solutions enable businesses to communicate with individual patrons across all channels through timely, relevant, and personalized messages. 
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Teradata Solutions in the Intelligence Community
This white paper identifies the intelligence community’s overarching information management challenges and describes representative solutions achieved by commercial powerhouses. These solutions are achieved using an active data warehouse from Teradata that allows disparate data to be consolidated. 
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Teradata User Defined Functions

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.

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Teradata’s Real-Time Enterprise Reference Architecture

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

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The Active Data Warehouse
Learn about how with an ADW, retailers can improve communication among merchants, vendors, customers, and associates throughout the day, enabling them to cohesively respond to the business events that drive increased profitability in near real time.
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The Analytic Value of RFID
Learn more about several opportunities for early adopters to unlock the hidden potential of RFID-enabled data and justify future waves of RFID investment.
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The Case for Enterprise Master Data Management
Learn how Teradata can help you manage data across multiple sources within an enterprise.
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The Hidden Heart of Healthcare Change
Healthcare plans are under more pressure than ever to find the elusive balance among quality, cost, and access. Initiatives designed to strike the balance rely on rapid access to reliable data. Learn more about Teradata’s three distinct advantages for today's healthcare challenges.
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The Teradata Approach to Assessing the Business Value of Data Warehousing and Analytics Investments

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.

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The TREAD Act and the Teradata Solution

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.

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The Value of a PNR Data Warehouse

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.

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Three Simple Rules for Smarter Marketing With Teradata Relationship Manager
This white paper details the three simple rules for smarter marketing. By keeping focus on these rules Teradata has made it possible for companies to achieve unprecedented returns on their marketing investments. Learn More about Teradata Relationship Manager. 
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User-defined Types

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.

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Using SQL and Result Sets in Stored Procedures
Teradata Database 12.0 has been enhanced to allow SQL access within External Stored Procedures to use Java as an External Stored Procedure language and to return Result Sets from Stored Procedures. 
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Using Your OLTP Database for DSS?
A database's competence at transaction processing doesn't automatically qualify it to support growing and dynamic data warehouses. As this paper suggests, that very specialization in transaction workloads often translates to a life-sentence of data warehouse compromise.
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When and Why to Put What Data Where
This white paper provides guidelines to understanding how and when to use data management architecture layers in an efficient, as well as an effective manner. 
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Where Is That Passenger?
A flight departing with empty seats is wasted money so airlines overbook flights to ensure that revenue is generated from each available seat with minimal risk. Using data provided by the airlines, Teradata’s scalable, flexible, analytical techonology helps them exploit passenger data to full advantage.
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