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Tableau Software and Teradata Database

Arm knowledge workers with data visualization tools using Tableau and Teradata Database.

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Taming Information Chaos

This white paper details the results of a global survey performed by IDC at the request of Teradata to come up with a “state-of-the-art” picture of organizational use of business analytics to support decision making.

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Taming Information Chaos - Executive Summary

This white paper details the results of a global survey performed by IDC at the request of Teradata to come up with a “state-of-the-art” picture of organizational use of business analytics to support decision making.

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TDWI Best Practices Report Customer Data Integration: Managing Customer Information as an Organizational Asset

Who are your customers? Which products and services are they buying across your enteprise? Where do they conduct business besides your firm? This white paper describes the benefits of CDI solutions.

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Technology for 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 .

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Teradata Active System Management: High-Level Architectural Overview

The key concept introduced in this white paper is that by using Teradata Active System Management users can analyze both query level information collected over time as well as an existing workload set, convert database settings, regulate workloads, and monitor and report on workload performance.

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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 Analyst Pack: More Power to Analyze and Tune Your Data Warehouse for Optimal Performance

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 Business Value Consulting: A Proven Approach to Forecasting and Measuring
The Teradata Business Value Consulting team has helped many companies drive millions to their bottom lines – and we stand ready to help you do the same. 
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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 Cylinder Read

This paper presents a solution for increasing the performance of mixed workloads by using the cylinder read feature.

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Teradata Database Queue Tables
This white paper describes the Queue Tables feature that was introduced in Teradata® Database V2R6. This feature enables new and improved ways of building applications to support event processing use cases. 
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Teradata Database's Ease of Management

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.

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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 for Financial Services

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

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Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse Roadmap for Healthcare

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. The roadmap will help a company stay on the path supporting its strategic business values based on a foundation of enterprise data.

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Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse Roadmap for Insurance

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

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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 Enterprise Logical Data Models

Learn more about how Teradata logical data models help enterprises cope with abundant data, compressed business cycle times, and constant economic pressures in this white paper.

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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 Manufacturing Logical Data Model
Teradata MLDM provides the blueprint of the structure and standardization you need to address your most crucial business questions.
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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 Four-Phased Approach to Data Mart Consolidation

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.

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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 critical need for scalable enterprise data integration with a Teradata Warehouse

To learn how Teradata and IBM Information Server, together, can energize your enterprise, empower your employees, and produce a cost-effective return on your investment, download this white.

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The Customer-Focused Network

This paper describes a way to simplify the complex customer demands and transform the blur of technologies into a clear window that delivers true network control.

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The Emergence of Electronic Product Coding
Electronic Product Coding (EPC) is central to the long-term success of RFID technology. RFID is a physical technology and is winning as the standard to be used in much of the retail landscape for holding and capturing the unique serial number of an item in the supply chain.
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The Empowered Customer

This white paper focuses on the growing trend of customer communities and how customers are using these communities to discuss products, react to services offered and voice opinions on a company in general.

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The Finance Information Factory: Towards a Rational Information Management Architecturefor the Finance Function in Banks

Examines information management architectures in the finance function in banks, and approaches and barriers to migration to a more efficient Finance Information Factory.

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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 Importance of Data Modeling as a Foundation for Business Insight

In this paper, Larissa Moss explores the origin and significance of data modeling, as well as the concepts and principles behind the technique. Steve Hoberman then focuses on physical data modeling by describing the various mature and proven database design options available for BI/DW databases.

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The Role Of Customer Insight In Building Your CRM Strategy

The purpose of this paper is to explore the changes in marketing information that must accompany the progression of a company from being product- or sales-focused to being customer- or, more particularly, relationship-focused.

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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 Teradata Communications Industry Logical Data Model

The Teradata CLDM provides a detailed and well-proven data model as a foundation for your organization's enterprise data model that can save you substantial amounts of time and money.

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The Teradata Database Scalability Story

Scalability is a widely used and often misunderstood term. This paper explains scalability as experienced within a data warehouse. It will point to several unique characteristics of the Teradata Database that allows scalability to be achieved.

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The Teradata Healthcare Industry Logical Data Model

The goal of this paper is to increase your awareness of how Teradata Healthcare Logical Data Model helps organizations obtain their big picture quicker and more accurately than building an EDM from scratch, thus permitting your organization to answer complex strategic and tactical business questions faster and more accurately.

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The Teradata Manufacturing Industry Logical Data Model

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

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The Teradata Travel and Hospitality Industry Logical Data Model

This white paper increases your awareness of how the Teradata T&H LDM helps organizations like yours obtain the big picture more quickly and accurately than building an EDM from scratch, thus permitting you to answer complex strategic and tactical business questions faster and more accurately.

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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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The Value Proposition for Active Data Warehouses

This paper focuses upon the value proposition behind the Active Data Warehouse as another phase in the evolution of Business Intelligence in the enterprise.

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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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