Teradata Continues Business Momentum

Teradata Continues Business Momentum

Fueled by three primary business drivers – customers, solutions and partnerships

AUCKLAND, New Zealand – Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), the global leader in data warehouse-driven enterprise analytics, continues to expand its customer base and add to its solution portfolio and partnerships.

“What we do best is help our customers gain competitive advantage through active enterprise intelligence – which is the alignment of strategic and operational decision-making throughout an organisation,” said Peter Hand, vice president Asia Pacific and Japan for Teradata. “This customer-focused approach helped us to achieve healthy growth in 2006.”

Mr Hand said that Teradata’s performance has laid a strong foundation as the division prepares for its separation from parent NCR. NCR announced on Jan. 8, 2007, that it intends to separate into two independent publicly traded companies through the spin off of 100 percent of the company’s Teradata data warehousing business to NCR’s shareholders.

“Organisations’ critical need for leveraging data across the enterprise – and applying analytics to provide the most valuable information assets – has always been the core of the Teradata mission,” said Mark Smith, chief executive officer and executive vice president of research for analyst firm Ventana Research. “Teradata’s continued focus on customer success and satisfaction, along with their continued investment to broaden and deepen their solutions, has driven them to be one of the key technology suppliers in the industry.”

Teradata and analysts see enterprise data warehousing as the superior data warehousing architecture that companies utilise to build their enterprise analytics infrastructure, Mr Hand noted. “The need for analytics has never been greater. The way companies use information to drive strategic and operational decision-making is the basis for competition. Teradata will continue to increase the availability of business solutions – from Teradata and our partners – to help our customers drive more value from integrated detailed enterprise-wide data as well as to extend our technology lead in active data warehousing.”

New Teradata customers and major upgrades across the world

Mr Hand noted that Teradata’s roster of world-class customers is growing across all industries, from new customers to data warehouse expansions by existing customers to orders for new analytical solutions and consulting services. Some of the business leaders placing orders with Teradata include:

* Financial Services (Banking and Insurance): ABN-Amro (China), Argencard (Argentina), Banco Bradesco, Barclay’s Bank (U.K.), BPH Bank (Poland), Caixa Galicia Bank (Spain), China Everbright Bank, Commercial International Bank (Egypt), Corona Direct (Belgium), DnB Nor (Norway), Health Care Services Corporation, Hua Nan Commercial Bank (Taiwan), Norwich Union (U.K.), Russian Standard Bank, Siam Commercial Bank (Thailand), UnumProvident Corp., and several other leading U.S. and international financial institutions

* Retail and Hospitality: Bottega Verde (Italy), Federated Stores, Hallmark Cards Inc., hhgregg stores, Hudson’s Bay Company (Canada), Iceland Frozen Foods (U.K.), Libertad (Argentina), Limited Brands Inc., Loblaw’s (Canada), Mango (Spain), Meredith Corp., METRO (Germany), Overstock.com, Sears Holdings, Tesco (U.K.), The Warehouse (New Zealand), and many other premiere names in the global retail industry

* Communications, Media and Entertainment: AEG – Anschutz Entertainment Group, Amp’d Mobile, Canal+ Group (France), eBay, Harrah’s Entertainment, Mobilink (Pakistan), Mohegan Sun, Penn National Gaming, Polkomtel S.A. (Poland), Proximus (Belgium), Telecom Egypt, Trump Entertainment Resorts, VIBO Telecom (Taiwan), Xinjiang Telecom (China) – and other leaders in global entertainment, feature film companies, and the wireline and wireless industries

* Travel: Alitalia (Italy), Continental Airlines, Lufthansa (Germany), Travelocity – and name-brand freight carriers and passenger airlines in the United States

* Government, Public Sector: Australian Taxation Office, China Post Express Mail Service, Czech Post, Poste Italiane, SABESP (Brazil), State of Texas, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Minnesota Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Defense - Transportation Command, and numerous other U.S. federal and state government organisations

* Manufacturing, Distribution, Services: Chi Mei Optoelectronics (Taiwan), DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, 3M Corporation, Tenneco Inc., leading soft drink bottlers, and PC and chip-makers
Teradata grows solution portfolio

In 2006, Teradata introduced new analytic applications, products and acquired solutions, enhancing its portfolio and more importantly, growing the capabilities of our customers.

* Teradata® Warehouse 8.2, a comprehensive suite of high-end hardware, software and consulting services for managing active enterprise intelligence

* Teradata Warehouse Miner 5.0, a comprehensive suite of data-mining software that significantly automates data preparation and dramatically accelerates performance of partners’ data-mining tools

* Teradata Finance and Performance Management, Teradata Master Data Management, Teradata Enterprise Risk Management, a new version of Teradata Customer Relationship Management, and new SeeChain capabilities in Teradata’s Demand and Supply-Chain Management solution for greater visibility and traceability in supply-chain management
New and evolving partnership activities enhance Teradata customer capabilities

Teradata continues to add, develop and expand partner relationships and partner analytic solutions optimised for Teradata.

* In January 2007, Microsoft and Teradata announced they are working together to optimise interoperability between Microsoft® business intelligence solutions and Teradata® Enterprise Data Warehouse to help information workers gain access to, analyse and report on critical data more quickly, and help streamline the delivery of business intelligence applications.

* Teradata continues to extend its set of SAP NetWeaver-certified integration tools through partnerships, expanding its SAP commitment.

* Many of Teradata’s other core data warehousing partners continue to optimise their solutions for joint customers including Ab Initio, Attensity, Business Objects, Cognos, Compudigm, Computer Associates, Fair Isaac, Goldengate, Hyperion, IBM IIS, Informatica, KXEN, Microstrategy, Oracle Business Analytics (formerly Siebel), Oracle Data Integrator (formerly Sunopsis), SPSS and Trillium. Also growing is Teradata’s portfolio of industry partners including vendors such as Datavantage, Mantas, Retaligent, Scorecard, Sungard and Thomson Medstat.

* Teradata’s systems integrator partnerships with Accenture, BearingPoint, Capgemini and Deloitte continue to lead to new joint solution opportunities.

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