The Teradata team was busy with announcements last week at the annual PARTNERS User Group Conference – from the world’s first solid state data warehouse appliance to new Cloud Computing and vertical industry offers. The headlines below give you other highlights of media coverage of the PARTNERS Conference story. Check out the stories below, and go to www.teradata.com for more on the new announcements.

• Teradata Kicks Off Annual Partners Conference with New High-Speed Appliance and Cloud Computing Offerings
  
• Teradata: We still rule over Oracle, IBM in analytics:At conference, says it will offer its data warehousing technology for private corporate cloud
  
• Teradata Labs Chief Downplays Database Machines From Oracle, HP, Netezza:Teradata R&D boss Scott Gnau dismisses competitors 
  
• Teradata announcements target public, private clouds
  
• Teradata unveils SSD Blurr appliance 
  
• Data warehousing specialist promises cloud flexibility (with limits), and (oh by the way) solid-state hard drive speed 
  
• Teradata Bolsters CRM Solution 
  

Since PARTNERS 2009 took place in Washington, D.C., we had government-focused sessions and an event at the National Press Club for government-focused media. Here are a few of the stories:

National Press Club Luncheon: The Role of Technology in Achieving Government Transparency from Teradata on Vimeo. 

• Real-time reporting on bank bailout funds and stimulus spending needed
  
• Bill would clear the fog from opaque TARP program 
  
• Missouri revenue dept. delves into data warehousing to find tax delinquents

We ended the week with a great article in Barron’s Magazine. I guess this headline refers to pterodactyl, the flying dinosaur. Actually, the only thing Teradata and that dinosaur have in common is Greek roots for the names. But that’s OK – I loved the Barron’s article. Just read the first couple of paragraphs and you’ll see why:

• Sounds Like a Dinosaur, but It’s No Small-Brainer
  
  “Thousands of technology geeks representing some of the biggest companies in the world gathered at a convention center in Washington last week to swap stories, compare notes and make wish lists about their experiences with data warehousing and analytic software applications. Oh, and they had something else in common: they are all clients or partners of Teradata , the undisputed leader in the field of business intelligence. Known as the Partners Conference, the event is the world's biggest confab for data-warehousing and data-mining specialists. Some of Teradata's biggest competitors, including Oracle (ticker: ORCL) and International Business Machines (IBM), ponied up big bucks for the chance to impress the attendees last week -- at the 24th annual meeting of what started as an informal user group of about 25 people.
  
  “In the 30 years since it was incorporated, the result of a collaboration between researchers at CalTech and the technology group at Citibank, Teradata (TDC) has been helping companies gain a competitive edge by analyzing the raw data from their business operations, identifying inefficiencies and providing solutions using super-fast and super-sophisticated software applications.”

If you want to read more about all the announcements we made last week, check out our Conference Newsroom – a lot of good info here on customer wins and partnerships as well.

I’ll share more highlights in another posting, but as you can tell, we had a great event. Look forward to 2010 in San Diego!

Darryl

Here’s a news flash! The epicenter of advanced information technology is moving this weekend from Silicon Valley to the US capital! Intelligence is about to break loose in Washington! Active Enterprise Intelligence, that is – as Teradata’s customers and our solutions and partners take center stage. The Teradata fan base from all over the planet is converging on DC!

On Sunday it officially begins – our 24th annual Teradata PARTNERS User Group Conference & Expo, through Thursday, October 22, 2009, at the Gaylord National Resort and Conference Center in Washington, DC. Most of us know that the conference is organized by Teradata customers, and is the world's largest annual data warehousing and enterprise analytics educational conference and exposition.

The conference theme is “Accelerating Insight” – and every educational session plus the networking opportunities at the event will help attendees better manage a decision-making process that is increasing in velocity and complexity. We’ll have participants from hundreds of organizations around the globe in dozens of industries, showcasing new solutions and best practices from Teradata and a record-breaking number of partners.

The conference has more than 200 sessions – that cover all aspects of active enterprise data warehousing and business intelligence. They’ll be led by Teradata customers, industry analysts, consultants, academics from the Teradata University Network, as well as Teradata’s internal experts.

Mike Koehler, our president and CEO, will speak during the Monday general session as will James Vollmer, our conference host from Enterprise Holdings, followed by Don Tapscott, professor at the University of Toronto, consultant and author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.

I like the sound of that because it echoes this fact: COLLABORATION WITH TERADATA CHANGES EVERYTHING! Okay, I haven’t written a book with this title yet – but it could happen. Teradata’s active enterprise intelligence has positively transformed hundreds of organizations, thousands of groups and millions of users – and will keep doing it for many years!

Whether you are a Teradata customer or a Teradata prospect, I hope you are on your way soon to the Teradata PARTNERS Conference. That’s where you’ll learn more about some of the most agile enterprises on the planet, all leveraging Teradata. This experience could just make you a fan, spark your business vision, and have you saying “Teradata changes everything!”

Look forwarding to seeing you at the conference!

Darryl