Businessweek

Teradata Corporation provides analytic data solutions, including integrated data warehousing, big data analytics, and business applications. The company’s data warehousing solutions include software, hardware, and related business consulting and support services. The company serves customers across a set of industries worldwide—ranging from small departmental and corporate implementations to various data warehouses and marketing applications. It has sales and services offices located in approximately 42 countries. The company has its operations in North America and Latin America region; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa region; and the Asia Pacific and Japan region. Data Warehousing and Big Data Analytics Solutions Data Warehousing: Data warehousing is the process of capturing, integrating, storing, managing, and analyzing data to answer business questions and make informed decisions. Customers use the company’s data warehousing software and hardware technologies and related services to acquire, aggregate, store, and integrate data from multiple sources, including transaction and enterprise resource planning systems; manage and analyze this data through the Teradata database software and tools, data mining, master data management, and other enterprise analytical applications, such as customer management, demand and supply chain management, enterprise risk management, and financial management; and integrate analytics-based decisions into operational processes. Big Data Analytics: Big data analytics describe environments with data volume, variety, velocity, and complexity. The company addresses this market with various offerings that provide a unified data architecture for its customers, including the Teradata database, the Aster MapReduce platform and software and services that integrate with the Apache Hadoop platform. Teradata Unified Data Architecture: A collection of services, platforms, applications, and tools that help customers define and deploy a data architecture that makes optimal use of available technologies in a way that accesses the value of data. These tools and utilities give organizations the ability to manage all the data with workload-specific engines. Active Intelligence: The company extends the use of traditional data warehousing by integrating advanced analytics into enterprise business processes through a solution known as Active Intelligence, which reduces the time between obtaining information and acting on it. Primarily, active intelligence integrates detailed historical information with near real-time data, and then deploys strategic intelligence to knowledge workers in the corporate office, as well as operational intelligence to front line users, customers, and partners. Products The company is a single-source provider of analytic data solutions with an integrated business that includes professionals and technologies. Its products are optimized and integrated primarily for data warehousing, big data analytics, and business applications, including its database and application software, hardware platform, and related consulting and support services. The company’s primary software and hardware products comprise: Teradata Analytic Database Software: The company’s Teradata database software combined with its massively parallel processing (MPP) hardware architecture provides the foundation for its ability to support and manage a range of mixed workloads and data warehousing functions. Its Teradata database software delivers near real-time intelligence for its customers with capabilities and features, such as support of short-term operational and long-term strategic workloads (mixed workloads). The company also offers license subscriptions that provide its customers with when-and-if-available upgrades and improvements to its database software. Teradata Work-Load Specific Platforms: For the hardware component of the company’s solutions, it integrates and optimizes hardware components with its value-added, fault-tolerant BYNET MPP interconnect. It utilizes Intel XEON 64-bit servers, along with storage offerings, to provide transparent scalability. The company’s research an