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Teradata 13.10 has many new features in its SQL designed specifically for temporal support.

This document describes how to create and render reports using a ROLAP data source built with Analysis Services and Teradata. In addition, KPIs can be built using an ODBC data source that accesses data residing in the Teradata data source utilizing a SQL statement.

This white paper describes how an enterprise data warehouse can help policy makers and even recipients of government funds have a clear picture of whether or not TARP funds are having the intended effects in the U.S. economy and whether or not the money is being used for the intended purposes.

Itron and Teradata introduce Active Smart Grid Analytics™ — a powerful platform where business value is derived from analytics driven by smart grid information.

The best strategic response for fast-growing risk management requirements is a data-centric, agile enterprise risk intelligence solution.

By utilizing technology, government regulators could create new capabilities to measure, monitor, and regulate risk across the financial system to avoid crisis.

Examines the impact of convergence on the future of the communications, media and entertainment industries.

There is an ongoing debate about the scope and influence of relationship marketing and what is meant by customer loyalty. This paper synthesises opinion by arguing that loyalty can only be earned by having a superior customer value proposition in the first place. It describes a four-zone “customer value impact” framework for the measurement, planning and implementation of strategies designed to grow firm customer-centricity.

Learn the top 10 benefits of a unified logical data model to save substantial design time and increase consistency within an organization.

From real-time, granular weather analysis and forecasting for wind and solar power generation models to individual home energy consumption tracking, massive new volumes of data are being created. This e-book from Smart Data Collective descrives the challenge and opportunity for utilities, service providers, and consumers to intelligently manage this data and make sense of it to optimize use and reduce energy costs.

This paper discusses how to leverage CDI through an Active Enterprise Intelligence approach, which provides the next- generation of CDI.

Selecting a database management system is critical for the success of a data warehouse. The Teradata Database is ideal in this role, delivering unmatched performance even as data volume and users increase.

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In this white paper you will learn how through a series of interviews conducted with people who have pioneered implementations of active data warehousing, the author concluded companies are implementing active data warehousing successfully and are reaping benefits from these implementations.

This paper is the result of a series of IT interviews exploring what drove organizations to move their BI environments away from traditional databases like Oracle.

Top-line metrics summarize the impact of bad data in business terms, enable senior managers to properly allocate resources, build support for data quality efforts.

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.

Sid Adelman discusses benchmarking approaches/recommendations for replacing your data warehouse with a data warehouse appliance or positioning the appliance for new applications.

This white paper by Sid Adelman is a pratical guide for anyone considering doing an Enterprise DW benchmark

Positions, compares and contrasts enterprise event management and decisioning functions within banks' Enterprise Business Services architecture.

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.

Based on anonymous interviews, this paper examines the strategies and issues for migrating data warehouses from Oracle platforms to the Teradata platform.

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.

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.

This paper presents facts to shatter current myths and misperceptions about Teradata.

Teradata can help the healthcare industry eliminate siloes and data marts and make the move to EDW and an Active Data Warehousing tm environment.

This white paper describes business intelligence and its evolution from strategic to operational.

Mike Ferguson discusses how enterprise-wide business strategy execution possible using technologies that already exist and often are installed in the data center already.

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

This white paper discusses the use of Event-Based Marketing (EBM) in the financial services industry and identifies the specific benefits of implementing EBM programs to stimulate the main organic growth enablers.

Oracle's Exadata does little to handle the complex workloads and analytics demanded from today’s active data warehouses.

Seth Grimes helps in-database analytics users – current and prospective – cut through the clutter of competing definitions and claims.

As today's businesses navigate the perils and opportunities a fragile economic recovery, how effective are their CFOs at getting management the information needed to make smart decisions? See what 200+ finance executives told CFO Research Services.

Geospatial analytics should be a vital part of P&C insurers' analytical mix, providing a location-based view that enriches non-geographic insurance data.

This white paper is a good introduction to master data management (MDM). It describes the challenges and drivers of master data management and presents case examples of MDM implementations in organizations.

This report provides an enlightening look at the chaos within an organization's data.  With worldwide spending on packaged software growing to $230 billion in 2006 and business analytics software growing at better than 10% worldwide, there's never been a more appropriate time for the insightful information in this report. We encourage you to put the vital findings in this report to work immediately in your teaching of organizational BI.

Government agencies and medical institutions are facing rising expectations for care along with budgets that cannot possibly keep up. Learn how data warehousing, properly implemented, can help address this crisis in health care by helping to lower the costs of and increase the quality of health care.

This detailed report tells the results of a survey taken among members of OAUG, conducted by Unishphere Media in cooperation with Teradata, to measure the scope and adoption of financial reporting technologies. Read more to learn about the information stemming from this study.

To be ready for Solvency II requires a strategy that saves time, minimizes costs, and accelerates time-to-competitive advantage.

The Teradata approach differs significantly from traditional dual system solutions. The Teradata Dual Active Solution allows you to use the secondary system in day-to-day production, bringing a positive ROI that is unachievable with a passive system that acts only as an insurance policy.

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.

Presents the definition of term "Information Asset," Teradata's Information Asset Model and methods of valuation of this powerful asset.

The availability of operational reporting in retailing environments can mean the different between a retailer knowing what to do and doing it.

Having developed specifically for Intel processors for longer than almost anyone in enterprise computing, Teradata continues to be an early adopter of new Intel architecture.

An EDM is needed by almost every corporate-wide initiative, and an industry model can facilitate the task of creating an EDM for your organization. If you want to learn how to leverage LDMs in your Enterprise Data Model, download this white paper.

This white paper defines master data management and explores the various scenarios where this issue is gaining attention both from IT and business managers. The challenge for organizations is to align business roles with responsibilities for management of specific master data domains, with IT providing the technical support for the underlying data resources and data models.

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.

This whitepaper is an overview to Oracle Essbase, XOLAP, and Oracle Essbase Studio and how they integrate with Teradata.

This white paper helps answer the key questions about migrating from Oracle to a Teradata solution by profiling three of the more than 150 Oracle customers who have already done so.

This white paper describes why pervasive BI (AEI) is important and relevant to every industry.

An exciting, but challenging environment faces the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) of today. Fueled by the outsourcing trends of high-tech original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and consumer electronics manufacturers, forecasters predict long-term growth rates of 20–30%.

What should you be doing to maximize the return from your investment in customer profitability measurement?

Synchronize information for increased agility, productivity, active leadership, and competitive advantage. 

There is no doubt that the mobile channel is emerging as a dramatic, holistic, and powerful method of interacting with your customers. Learn why many companies are dedicating portions of their marketing budgets to mobile communications and are training their marketing executives to the possibilities inherent in the channel.

This white paper explains the value scalability and performance, availability and reliability, and manageability deliver in an effective enterprise data warehouse platform.

This white paper provides an overview of the security features and describes scenarios for their usage. The paper will also discuss the independent evaluation of the Teradata Database to the international Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (ISO 15408) Standard.

Self-Service Marketing (SSM) technology lets companies share marketing activities with local affiliaties, allowing them access to centrally maintained marketing artifacts.

An Active Data Warehouse built with Teradata Servers and the Teradata Database offers levels of data availability expected in a world-class operational system. An ADW with Fallback achieves levels of single system availability unmatched by other RDBMS vendors.

Examines available Solvency II options for insurers in terms of approaches and their implications, and highlights the importance of establishing a solid data foundation

William McKnight describes Teradata appliances for mid-size companies' use in data warehousing and business intelligence.

Learn how the Teradata system and Aprimo Relationship Manager gives Station Casinos the opportunity to achieve true, relationship-based marketing.

Learn how the Teradata system and Aprimo Relationship Manager gives Station Casinos the opportunity to achieve true, relationship-based marketing.

Explores the major categories of information data stores available in the market.  A starting point for information technology managers who need to select systems.

Enhancements to the Teradata Healthcare Logical Data Model (HC-LDM) support forward and backward conversion between ICD-9 and ICD-10.

Discusses Data Management recommendations for U.S. systemic risk authority.

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

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.

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.

A key to eliminating complexity in the area of corporate finance and performance management is to drive toward the use of one simplified, enterprise-wide chart of accounts.

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 .

Teradata Aggregate Designer extends and enhances Teradata Database’s capabilities to optimize the performance of rich, multi-dimensional BI solutions.

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.

This white paper focuses on the Teradata Analytical Ecosystem, a new strategic way of looking at your data warehouse envrionment.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Communications service providers must satisfy customer demands for rich, flawlessly delivered services that blur the traditional boundaries among voice, video, Internet, application, content, and messaging.  This paper describes a way to simplify the complexity and transform the blur into a clear window that delivers true network control.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Steve Hoberman provides an overview to the Teradata MLDM, a scenario illustrating how it can be leveraged, and information on how it can be enhanced through unification.

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.

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.

Teradata recently introduced a Teradata Database version that includes the built-in functionality (in the RDBMS language) to handle temporal data.

This paper examines real-time analytics use in drilling and production, platforms for advanced analytics and data retention, and how to encourage better quality data.

This TDWI Best Practices report will help you identify the opportunities that BI offers to finance and accounting executives, managers, and analysts; the obstacles in delivering BI to the finance department; and best practices for ensuring a solution’s success.

This white paper, by Jim Sterne of the Web Analytics Assoc.,and Paul Barrett of Teradata, discusses the competitive advantage of getting, integrating and using customer data.

This article describes five data warehouse architectures -- independent data marts, data mart bus architecture, hub and spoke, centralized, and federated -- and provides survey data about how successful they are.