Teradata

Critical business processes, from strategic planning to customer management, depend on clean, integrated information presented in a timely, consistent manner. And years of demonstrated success confirm that enterprise data warehousing is the most effective method of getting detailed, trustworthy information to business users and processes.

Many characterize enterprise data warehousing simply as servers, disk drives, and software. But choosing the right technology is only part of the equation. You must also ensure that your data warehousing processes are properly aligned with key business initiatives and strategies. These processes include funding prioritization, architectural governance, and quantified value assessments. By combining our data warehousing technology with best-in-class data warehousing processes, Teradata Corporation can deliver an analytical infrastructure that drives true return on investment.

But how do you know if the processes surrounding your data warehouse are aligned with your key business drivers and strategies? How do you ensure that your data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) capabilities are consistent across your enterprise?

A Data Warehouse Maturity assessment from Teradata can help you take the initial steps toward aligning your analytical infrastructure with business goals and objectives. By using our patent-pending Data Warehouse Maturity assessment process and scorecard, we’ll show you how to align and standardize your BI processes for more consistent decision-making capabilities.

There’s more. Data Warehouse Maturity consulting services from Teradata help address the key issues that may be limiting the value of your data warehouse investment. So we can show you new and better ways to achieve economies of scale that can help you strengthen the return from your data warehouse and BI investments.

Consider the number of disparate reporting systems and data marts across your enterprise. The sophistication of these systems evolves as business requirements change; however, the processes surrounding non-integrated systems mature at varying rates, causing tremendous disparity in the analytical sophistication of various organizations. For example, a finance department may update its data weekly, while marketing conducts monthly updates. The billing department may have stringent data quality processes, while inventory data are untrustworthy. Trying to coordinate cross-departmental data generated by systems with inconsistent data quality, metadata, and data freshness processes leads to costly reconciliation exercises and questionable results.

A Data Warehouse Maturity assessment from Teradata is used to define and measure the characteristics of the overall maturity of your data warehousing environment. The maturity assessment determines the gaps between your current situation and where you’d like to be along the spectrum of maturity. Through this consulting service, we will provide a detailed analysis and prioritized set of recommendations to close the gaps. We’ve taken years of accumulated experience and combined it with insight from award-winning Teradata customers. The result: a best practices portfolio for aligning the maturity of your data warehouse to the sophistication of your business goals. We’ve distilled this experience down to a series of dimensions and maturity stages that allow you to harvest maximum value from your data warehouse.

Our mission is clear:

• Determine the required level of data warehouse maturity to meet your business needs.
• Assess the current maturity of critical data warehousing characteristics.
• Prioritize the steps you need to take to achieve an optimal data warehouse system.
• Standardize your data warehousing processes to align with business goals.

Teradata can coordinate technology and processes that benefit your entire enterprise data warehouse environment.

The Data Warehouse Maturity Scorecard from Teradata will clearly define and measure the overall maturity of your data warehousing environment. You can use these maturity ratings to provide baseline assessments of your analytical capabilities, as well as specific, prioritized recommendations for improving efficiencies.

You can also combine infrastructure analysis with the knowledge of process-oriented dimensions, such as funding prioritization or architectural governance, to achieve a specific plan of data warehousing improvement recommendations.

Why should you choose Teradata? Because we offer a blend of technology and consulting experience unavailable from any other source. We’ve been providing innovative, best-in-class business solutions and technologies for some of the world’s most successful data warehouses for 30 years. And we’ve long supported integrated, centralized data warehouses in some of the most demanding environments.

Teradata also brings you the power to proactively manage your business and drive growth. Our solutions help provide analysis to expedite fast, accurate, and consistent decision making across your entire enterprise.

Teradata, the leader in data warehousing and analytic technologies, provides powerful, affordable, and easy-to-deploy industry solutions. Through technology, innovation, and people, Teradata gives you a smarter enterprise to compete in your markets. To find out more about how our Data Warehouse Maturity consulting services can help you align analytical capabilities across your organization, contact your local Teradata representative.