Teradata Database and

Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)

Teradata provides integrated, optimized, and extensible “Microsoft and Teradata are two of our
enterprise data warehousing technology and services strategic industry partners and we are
thrilled with the increased collaboration
that work synergistically with Microsoft® Business between the companies’ technologies.
Intelligence (BI) technologies. To get the most out of our data, we
need to be able to analyze every bit of
Solution Overview it as quickly as possible. The improved,
Key technologies from Teradata and Microsoft can be combined to realize a comprehensive real-time intersection between the
Business Intelligence architecture that provides an optimized solution to joint Microsoft and Teradata environments
customers. This joint architecture includes: will help us improve this process and
enable us to provide a solution that will
Teradata® Solution – provides integrated, optimized and extensible data warehouse technology for a better serve our customers.”
single application-neutral repository of the current and historical data, forming the framework for business Bill Noakes, executive vice president
intelligence and sales and marketing analysis. and chief information officer at Meijer Inc.

The latest release, Teradata 12.0, includes advanced features such as high-performance parallel database
technology, a cost-based optimizer, the most sophisticated mixed workload management tool available, a full
suite of data access and management tools and robust data mining software. Plus, expert data warehouse Top Reasons Why
training and the advice of the industry's most experienced data warehouse consulting professionals. Customers Choose Microsoft
Microsoft Business Intelligence Technologies – Microsoft offers a broad set of Business and Teradata EDW Solutions
Intelligence technologies that include: The combination of Microsoft and Teradata
enables data warehousing/enterprise BI solutions
• Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 database technologies – Integration Services, Reporting Services, Analysis to be extended broadly to the information workers
Services, which provide Data Integration, Enterprise Reporting and Real-time Data Analysis respectively. within enterprise companies who are most able
• PerformancePoint Technologies – including ProClarity, for interactive drill-down and analysis of to impact business performance. Customers and
multidimensional data and Business Scorecard Manager for interactive dashboarding and prospects will benefit from the combination of
alerting. Microsoft’s low cost, enterprise-ready business
intelligence solutions and Teradata’s scalability, high
• Microsoft Office System – including Microsoft Office Excel® client and server – the world’s most
performance and low TCO. Microsoft and Teradata
popular analytic toolset, as well as Microsoft Office PowerPoint® and Microsoft Office Word®
for presentations and communications document authoring. customers will benefit from.

1. Easier implementation of Microsoft BI

solutions into their Teradata EDW
2. Improved performance and scalability from
Microsoft integration and Teradata Business
Intelligence optimization
3. Faster availability and easier adoption of new
Microsoft and Teradata feature releases,
because of Teradata and Microsoft joint and
collaborative engineering
4. Delivery of key business data to the people
best placed to leverage it, through their
preferred productivity tools
5. Increased breadth and depth of data
delivered to the business users and the
front line workers
6. Reduced data latency between the time the
data is captured and the time the data is
delivered to the users
7. Eliminating middle-tier cube scalability
limitations
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Business Pain Points Addressed
Companies today need to provide their employees with reliable access to the information they About Teradata
need to make informed decisions so they can respond swiftly and appropriately to changing Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), is a global
technology leader in enterprise data warehousing,
conditions that impact their business. These organizations have the need to deploy business analytic applications and data warehousing services.
intelligence quickly, easily and with minimal training required, without sacrificing performance, Organizations around the world rely on the
reliability or the ability to scale as their enterprise data grows. Microsoft BI technologies enable power of Teradata’s award-winning solutions to
get a single, integrated view of their business to
users to surface key business information contained within Teradata EDW via popular Office tools. enhance decision-making, customer relationships
Those who will be interested in the synergy between Teradata and Microsoft technologies are: and profitability.

• Customers looking for an easy to deploy, low cost business intelligence solution with
unparalleled performance and scalability
• Customers seeking to unlock and deliver the valuable detailed and historical data to all
employees in the enterprise
• Customers planning on rolling out cost effective BI-based solutions to all employees
• Business users with requirements to access consistent and detailed data regardless of the
Contact Info
delivery channel
• Operational users with requirements to access real-time business data and business events Teradata Corporation
2835 Miami Village Drive
Technical Pain Points Addressed Miamisburg, OH, 45479
Joint customers of Microsoft and Teradata technologies have historically struggled with Phone: (937) 445-5993
connectivity between the two environments. On one hand, they have a Teradata EDW capable http://www.teradata.com
of immense scalability. On the other hand, they have their user’s preferred toolset – Office. Users
require access to the data at various levels of the organization and have often had to resort to Primary business contact:
creating duplicate data stores for reporting and for analytics. This has resulted in an expensive and Wendy-An Engelmann
difficult-to-maintain enterprise architecture with multiple versions of the truth. Teradata Alliance Director
Phone: (714) 270-2348
The collaboration between Teradata and Microsoft meets the needs of joint customers. It responds E-mail: wendy-an.engelmann@teradata.com
to customers’ need for an integrated and enhanced Teradata-Microsoft business intelligence solution.
Customers want the ability to curtail the proliferation and cost of disconnected data-marts, consolidate Primary technical contact:
data and scale to very large data warehouses supporting “BI for the masses.” The relationship between Matt Zenus
Teradata and Microsoft is a natural partnership between two companies with complementary products. Product Manager
Phone: (858) 485-3058
Microsoft and Teradata have collaborated to ensure high performance interaction between the
E-mail: matthew.zenus@teradata.com
Teradata EDW and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). This enables Teradata EDW
information to be surfaced via a spectrum of Microsoft reporting and analytic technologies. Microsoft Microsoft Corporation
has developed a Teradata-specific “Cartridge” which can be used by Microsoft developers to read One Microsoft Way
metadata from Teradata to optimize SQL Queries generated by SSAS. The new Teradata .NET Data Redmond, WA, 98052, USA
Provider (32 bit & 64 bit) is the advocated interface when connecting to SQL Server Analysis Services.
Primary business contact
Although SQL Server Analysis Services supports MOLAP, HOLAP & ROLAP architectures, the companies
Karl Dittman
are advocating a ROLAP architecture when connecting to the Teradata EDW. This architecture, combined Business Development Director
with such Teradata constructs as Aggregate Join Indexes (AJI’s), provides excellent performance with very Phone: (248) 797-3113
large databases. Leveraging a ROLAP architecture eliminates the need to export data from Teradata to a E-mail: Karl.Dittman@microsoft.com
middle tier for analytic purposes, saving a great deal of processing time and disk storage. Eliminating the
need for data movement in this environment enables customers to take advantage of Microsoft and U.S. sales contact
Teradata core competencies: Microsoft Analysis Services is used for its powerful analytic/cubing Teri Doyle
Business Development Manager
capabilities; and Teradata’s parallel processing power.
Phone: (425) 421-7646
Conclusion E-mail: Teri.Doyle@microsoft.com
Microsoft and Teradata provide excellent analytic and data warehousing technologies that, when Primary technical contact
combined together, provide joint customers with: excellent flexibility to deploy in the way that best
Vlad Eydelman
fits the needs of the business, powerful scalability, an easy to deploy and maintain environment, and Technical Program Manager
cost-effectiveness that enables everyone in the business to benefit from Business Intelligence. Phone: (267) 251-6883
E-mail: Vlad.Eydelman@microsoft.com

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