Mizuho Bank, a leading financial services institution in Japan serving more than 25 million households, has completed the implementation of a multiple-terabyte data warehouse with the Teradata Customer Management software application and Teradata Database.

Mizuho is using its Teradata solution to analyze multiple terabytes of detailed data linked to its millions of customers for event-based marketing, which enables one-to-one customer dialogue across multiple service channels.

Five months after unveiling its strategic partnership with Teradata, SAS, the leader in business intelligence and analytical software, has announced that the two partners have reached significant technical and sales milestones, allowing joint customers to benefit from in-database analytics sooner than anticipated. In addition, the two companies have launched a new program to prepackage select SAS software on Teradata-managed servers within Teradata environments.

Together, SAS and Teradata are enabling businesses to exploit SAS Analytics through the core parallel processing functionality inherent in Teradata's architecture. The new SAS Scoring Accelerator for Teradata enables customers to translate scoring models created in SAS Enterprise Miner into Teradata-specific functions to be executed directly within the Teradata environment. The results—enhanced model-scoring performance and more analytic models processed—mean faster predictive results.

Teradata has announced an expanded worldwide relationship with Oracle designed to promote enhanced enterprise-wide analytics, enabling joint customers to gain valuable business insights from greater amounts of detailed data.

Teradata has expanded its channel relationship to now include Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus and Oracle Business Intelligence Analytic Applications. This is in addition to Teradata's current offering of Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Essbase worldwide. The expanded relationship enables Teradata to offer integrated Oracle software and solutions running on Teradata to address customer requirements.

Teradata announced that its global research and development group has achieved the elite Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Maturity Level 3 rating, which is based on the rigorous criteria, version 1.2, developed by the Software Engineering Institute, a part of Carnegie Mellon University.

The CMMI Maturity Level 3 rating places Teradata among a select group of companies. Approximately 5% of all CMMI appraisals conducted worldwide on technology companies resulted in a Maturity Level 3 rating when the complex Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) is included. The IPPD component focuses on the capability of cross-functional teams working in multiple global locations.

Teradata has announced a positive assessment and marketplace recommendation by Ventana Research for the Teradata Supply Chain Accelerator for SAP.

Teradata Supply Chain Accelerator increases manufacturers' return on their investment in SAP by enabling the SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization system to support high volumes of detailed data and drive more accurate and more frequent demand planning. A demand plan is more accurate when generated as close as possible to the time it is needed and is based on a forecast of fresh, detailed information. Ventana Research advises companies on business intelligence (BI) and performance management.

Highmark Inc., the largest health insurer in Pennsylvania and one of the largest in the U.S., continues to expand its Teradata system, increasing the company's production environment and supporting the shift to active data warehousing.

In a case study, Highmark reported numerous benefits, including extremely quick responses to complex queries, improved business analyst productivity, reduced data management costs and more accurate reporting. Notably, the Teradata system is used to identify and fight fraud, a benefit to the plan and its members.

Teradata has announced the general customer availability of Manufacturing Logical Data Model 4.0, which defines how different types of data relate to one another and is a roadmap for building an enterprise data warehouse (EDW). The upgrade specifically addresses customer needs in a range of vertical manufacturing segments, including the automotive, consumer products and high-tech industries.

Teradata Manufacturing Logical Data Model 4.0 provides manufacturers with a best-in-class framework for building an EDW. It includes more than 80 subject areas, more than 6,000 individual pieces of data from across the organization and more than 2,100 relationships among that data.

Seven new and expanded capabilities are included in Manufacturing Logical Data Model 4.0: activity-based costing, planogram, trade funds management, party preferences, legal case management, account budgets and unstructured text capture. The new version also includes additional capabilities in product warranty and quality, demand planning, yield management, dynamic shift scheduling and maintenance repair and overhaul.

Teradata has added to its list of awards with new recognition for technical excellence and customer satisfaction in business intelligence (BI)—as well as ongoing success in helping companies transform supply chain operations.

Teradata is ranked in the top 10 of BI providers in the annual Consumer Goods Technology Readers' Choice. The ranking is based on customer experience as reported by consumer goods executives to an independent third party.

Teradata was also listed in Food Logistics magazine's FL100, an annual listing of the top 100 technology suppliers to the food industry. The FL100 lists technology and solution providers that transform the food supply chain, including food, beverage and consumer packaged goods manufacturers, distributors, grocery wholesalers and third-party logistics providers.

Teradata Magazine-June 2008