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Teradata Corporation

Type
Public
Traded as
NYSE: TDC
S&P 500 Component
Industry
Data warehousing
Founded
1979
Headquarters
Miami Township, Ohio
Key people
Michael F. Koehler, President and CEO
Products
Integrated Data Warehouse Hardware and
Software, Professional Services, Customer
Services
Revenue
US$ 2,692.0 million (2013)
[1]

US$ 2,665.0 million (2012)
[1]

Operating
income
US$ 532.0 million (2013)
[1]

US$ 580.0 million (2012)
[1]

Net income
US$ 377.0 million (2013)
[1]

US$ 419.0 million (2012)
[1]

Total assets
US$ 3,096.0 million (2013)
[2]

US$ 3,066.0 million (2012)
[1]

Total equity
US$ 1,857.0 million (2013)
[2]

US$ 1,779.0 million (2012)
[1]

Employees
10,200 (January 2014)
[3]

Website
www.teradata.com
Teradata Corporation is an American computer company that sells analytic data platforms,
applications and related services. Its products are meant to consolidate data from different
sources and make the data available for analysis. Formerly a division of NCR Corporation,
Teradata was incorporated in 1979 and separated from NCR in October 2007.
[4]
Michael
Koehler became president and CEO of Teradata after its 2007 spin off from NCR.
[5]
Teradata's
Applications business is led by Darryl McDonald, and the corporate headquarters is located
in Miamisburg, Ohio.
Contents
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1 Corporate Overview
2 History
3 Technology and products
o 3.1 Active enterprise data warehouse
o 3.2 Backup, archive, and restore
o 3.3 Platform family
o 3.4 Acquisitions
4 Partners
o 4.1 Teradata Partners Conference
5 Teradata and Big Data
6 Competition
7 Philanthropy
8 References
9 External links
Corporate Overview[edit]
Teradata is an enterprise software company that develops and sells a relational database
management system (RDBMS) with the same name. Teradata is publicly traded on the New
York Stock Exchange (NYSE) NYSE under the stock symbol TDC.
[6]

The Teradata product is referred to as a "data warehouse system" and stores and manages
data. The data warehouses use a "shared nothing" architecture which means that each server
node has its own memory and processing power.
[7]
Adding more servers and nodes increases
the amount of data that can be stored. The database software sits on top of the servers and
spreads the workload among them.
[8]
Teradata sells applications and software to process
different types of data. In 2010, Teradata added text analytics to track unstructured data, such
as word processor documents, and semi-structured data, such as spreadsheets.
[9]

Teradata's product can be used for business analysis. Data warehouses can track company
data, such as sales, customer preferences, product placement, etc.
[8]

Teradata has a supplier diversity program that designates a minimum of 3 to 5% of spending
on minority, women, veteran, or small business vendors.
[10]

In 2013, the Ethisphere Institute named Teradata as one of the "World's Most Ethical
Companies."
[11]

History[edit]
Timeline information taken from Teradata company history unless otherwise cited.
[12]

19761979: concept of Teradata grows from research at California Institute of
Technology (Caltech) and from the discussions of Citibank's advanced technology group.
[13]

Incorporated in 1979 in Brentwood, CA by Dr. Jack E. Shemer, Dr. Philip M. Neches,
Walter E. Muir, Jerold R. Modes, William P. Worth, and Carroll Reed.
1980: Enough funding for a research and development team.
1983: First beta system shipped to Wells Fargo Bank.
1984: Teradata releases the world's first parallel data warehouses and data marts.
[14]

1986: Fortune Magazine names Teradata "Product of the Year."
1987: Teradata initial public offering in August
1989: Teradata partners with NCR to build new database computers.
September 1991: AT&T Corporation acquires NCR.
[15]

December 1991: NCR announces acquisition of Teradata.
[16]

1992: Teradata creates the first system over 1 terabyte, which goes live at Wal-Mart.
[17]

1994: Gartner names Teradata the "Leader in Commercial Parallel Processing."
1995: IDC consulting group names Teradata number one in massively parallel processing
in Computerworld Magazine.
1996: A Teradata database becomes the world's largest database at 11 terabytes.
1997: NCR becomes independent from AT&T.
[15]

1997: Teradata customer creates world's largest production database at 24 terabytes.
1998: Teradata ported to Microsoft Windows NT.
1999: Teradata customer has world's largest database with 130 terabytes.On November 4,
1999, Survey.com announced that NCR's Teradata product received the highest ranking
overall in a survey of data warehouse implementers.
[18]

2000: NCR acquires Ceres Integrated Solutions and reconfigures their customer
relationship management software into Teradata CRM.
[19]

2000: NCR acquired Stirling Douglas Group and its demand chain management
software.
[20]

2002: Teradata Warehouse 7.0 was announced.
2003: More than 120 companies migrate from Oracle Corporation to Teradata after Oracle-
to-Teradata migration program.
[21]

2003: Teradata University is created. Nearly 170 universities in 27 countries included in
network.
2004: Teradata creates partnerships with SAP
[22]
and Siebel Systems, Inc.
[23]

2005: Teradata launches Teradata Warehouse 8.1.
2005: Teradata acquires DecisionPoint software
[24]
and rebrands it as Teradata Decision
Experts.
2005: Teradata adds Linux as an operating system choice for enterprise-class data
warehouses.
2006: Teradata launches Enterprise Master Data Management Solution.
2006: Microsoft and Teradata collaborate on business intelligence application.
[25]

2007: NCR announces that NCR and Teradata will separate into two independent
businesses.
[26]

2007: Intelligent Enterprise magazine names Teradata the best global data warehouse-
business intelligence appliance vendor.
2007: Teradata partners with DFA Capital Management, Inc.
[27]

2007: Agilent Technologies and Teradata established the first partnership between a data
warehouse company and an instrument measurement company in order to integrate
network and customer data for telecommunications industry.
[28]

2007: Teradata University network consists of 850 universities in 70 countries.
2007: On Oct 1, Teradata completes spin-off from NCR and is traded as its own stock.
Mike Koehler becomes the CEO of Teradata.
[29]

2007: Teradata launches Teradata 12
2007: Teradata announces partnership with SAS involving further technical integration of
their respective products and coordinated marketing, sales, and services activities.
[30]

2008: Teradata acquires Claraview.
[31]

2008: Teradata Purpose Built Platform Family launches.
2008: Teradata Petabyte Power Players announced: a group of five Teradata customers
with data warehouse environments exceeding one petabyte.
[32]

2008: Teradata Labs becomes the first to unveil a working prototype demonstrating the
innovative use of solid state disk (SSD) drives in a data warehouse environment at the
2008 Teradata PARTNERS User Group Conference & Expo.
[33]

2008: Teradata Accelerate launches
2009: Forrester Research ranks Teradata as number 1 amongst enterprise data
warehousing.
2009: Teradata announces that database administrators can now rewind Teradata
Viewpoint monitoring applications and portlets to check database activity or performance at
a specific point in time.
2009: Teradata ranked among BusinessWeeks InfoTech 100,"
[34]
the worlds best-
performing tech companies and Fortunes 1000.
[35]

2009: Teradata Database 13 releases
2010: Teradata introduces Teradata Extreme Data Appliance 1600.
2010: Teradata is named one of the worlds most ethical companies by The Ethisphere
Institute.
[36]

2011: Teradata acquires Aprimo
[37]
and Aster Data Systems.
[38]

2011: Gartner names Teradata as the global leader in data warehousing databases.
[39]

2011: Teradata adds Aprimo Real-Time Interaction Manager to its Marketing Solution
suite.
2012: Teradata acquires eCircle, a direct marketing company with focus on email
2013: Teradata is named a leader in Gartner's Data Warehouse DBMS Magic Quadrant in
February 2013
[40]

2013: Teradata Teradata Applications and ADAM Software Announce Strategic Global
Partnership
Technology and products[edit]
Teradata is a massively parallel processing system running a shared-nothing architecture.
[41]
Its
technology consists of hardware, software, database, and consulting. The system moves data
to a data warehouse where it can be recalled and analyzed.
[14]

The systems can be used as back-up for one another during downtime, and in normal
operation balance the work load across themselves.
[42]

In 2009, Forrester Research issued a report, "The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Data
Warehouse Platform," by James Kobielus,
[43]
rating Teradata the industry's number one
enterprise data warehouse platform in the "Current Offering" category.
Marketing research company Gartner Group placed Teradata in the "leaders quadrant" in its
2009, 2010, and 2012 reports, "Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management
Systems".
[44][45]

Teradata is the most popular data warehouse DBMS in the DB-Engines database ranking.
[46]

In 2010, Teradata was listed in Fortunes annual list of Most Admired Companies.
[47]

Active enterprise data warehouse[edit]
Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse is the platform that runs the Teradata Database,
with added data management tools and data mining software.
The data warehouse differentiates between hot and cold data meaning that the warehouse
puts data that is not often used in a slower storage section.
[48]
As of October 2010, Teradata
uses Xeon 5600 processors for the server nodes.
[49]

Teradata Database 13.10 was announced in 2010 as the companys database software for
storing and processing data.
[50][51]

Teradata Database 14 was sold as the upgrade to 13.10 in 2011 and runs multiple data
warehouse workloads at the same time.
[52]
It includes column-store analyses.
[53]

Teradata Integrated Analytics is a set of tools for data analysis that resides inside the data
warehouse.
[54]

Backup, archive, and restore[edit]
BAR is Teradatas backup and recovery system.
[55]

The Teradata Disaster Recovery Solution is automation and tools for data recovery and
archiving. Customer data can be stored in an offsite recovery center.
[56]

Platform family[edit]
Teradata Platform Family is a set of products that include the Teradata Data Warehouse,
Database, and a set of analytic tools. The platform family is marketed as smaller and less
expensive than the other Teradata solutions.
[57]

Acquisitions[edit]
Acquisition date Company
Valuation in
millions USD
Purpose References
July 17, 2014 Hadapt 50
Big Data, SQL-on-
Hadoop
[58]

July 16, 2014 Revelytix

Big Data, Metadata
[58]

May 2, 2012 eCircle

Marketing Tools

March 3, 2011
Aster Data
Systems
263 MapReduce, Big Data
[59][60]

December 22, 2010 Aprimo 550 Marketing tools
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August 10, 2010 Kickfire

[63]

March 20, 2008 Claraview

[64]

November 30, 2005
under NCR
DecisionPoint

Sourcing and
integration of data
[65]

July 14, 2000 under
NCR
Stirling Douglas
Group

Demand chain
management
[20]

Partners[edit]
Below is a partial list of Teradata partners.
TIBCO Spotfire
[66]

Capgemini
Cloudera
[66]

IBM
Informatica: Dual Load solution
[67]

Intel
Kalido: Teradata and Kalido Accelerate product
[68]

MapR
Microsoft
MicroStrategy: joint business intelligence products
[69][70]

NetApp
Oracle
SAP: Netweaver datawarehouse
[71]

SAS
Symantec
[72]

Tableau Software: interactive data visualization products focused on business
intelligence
[72]

Attunity
[73]

WhereScape: data warehouse development and management tools
Teradata Partners Conference[edit]
Teradata holds an annual user group conference and expo known as Teradata
PARTNERS with keynote industry speakers, educational sessions led by customers and other
vendors.
[74]
The Teradata Partners Conference has been an annual event since 1985.
[75]
The
conference involves lectures and speeches on technical and business topics and
announcements about new products.
[76]

Teradata and Big Data[edit]
Teradata began to associate itself with the term Big Data in 2010. CTO, Stephen Brobst,
attributes the rise of big data to new media sources, such as social media.
[77]
The increase in
semi-structured and unstructured data gathered from online interactions prompted Teradata to
form the Petabyte club in 2011 for its heaviest big data users.
[78]

The rise of big data resulted in many traditional data warehousing companies updating their
products and technology.
[79]
For Teradata, big data prompted the acquisition of Aster Data
Systems in 2011 for the companys MapReduce capabilities and ability to store and analyze
semi-structured data.
[80]

Public interest in big data resulted in a 13% increase in Teradatas global sales.
[78]