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The information-systems conundrum facing the government - lack of data standards, outdated technology, and information that can't be shared or analyzed - is the same one many companies have tackled.  But corportations don't have to deal with public-policy debates or the enormous scale of the federal government.  This Baseline article reprint addresses the challenges facing the federal government in its goal of sharing data electronically.

Annual sales of groceries are more than $56bn, which makes Albertson's, the third-largest grocer with only $36bn per year, the market underdog. Larry Johnston, CEO of Albertson's, believes cutting edge information technology is the solution to Albertson's challenges of boosting profitability, regaining market share, resolving labor issues, and ultimately, keeping Wal-Mart, the Benton, Ark. based behemoth, at bay.

This article is an interview with Mike Rote, Director and Co-Founder of Teradata's Data Mining Lab.  It discusses how advanced analytics dig deep into data and provide insight and interpretation, helping organizations find answers to previously impossible questions. This predictive tool helps users identify trends and likely behaviors, and plan accordingly.

This article reprint featuring Teradata's CTO Stephen Brobst shows that agile data warehousing with production of sandboxing significantly increases an organization's capability to deliver great value from the enterprise.

Bank of America has cut its processing time for anti-money laundering by ten hours using in-database analytics.

Good businesses learn from the past. But Japan-based direct marketer Senshukai is going one step further. With its e-business and data warehouse solution tracking both online and offline customer information, Senshukai is learning from the present.

Learn TDWI's nine recommendations for Operational Business Intelligence. The research for this report is based on a survey that TDWI conducted in February 2007 as well as interviews with BI and analytics practitioners, consultants and solution providers. The survey was sent to TDWI's database of active BI professionals.

Next-generation claims analytics will offer property/casualty carriers a competitive edge.

Teradata/SAS partnership means optimal speed and quality for your data analysis.

Using the latest technology to enhance the customer experience is a hallmark of Wells Fargo & Co. Opening the resources of the data warehouse to public use is a bold new step on a familiar path for this innovative financial services provider.

The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is assembling a business-intelligence system to help the Navy monitor the readiness of its fleet of 4,052 aircraft.

Big Lots replaced its data systems with a Teradata Warehouse. This article discusses the retailers’ plans to use it for space planning and markdown optimization.

The overarching theme around supply chain management is the need for flexibility and adaptability for profitability. With proper analytics, companies can use their demand-driven supply networks to focus on the categories that contribute most to business objectives while also increasing efficiency and consumer loyalty.

This article reprint from Telecommunications Magazine discusses CFO buy-in for the communications industry and how AT&T re-engineering was required.

After just ten marketing campaigns, Chinatrust Commercial Bank receives a 168 percent return on its investment in a Teradata Warehouse and related tools/utilities. So how does that translate to actual new business? Chinatrust representatives say these campaigns alone brought in more than $479 million dollars in new business.

Profit is the measure of a company's success. But how can you best measure profitability?

By the time former retail IT and logistics whiz Sergio Mendoza entered the picture in mid 2000, Lan Chile S.A. had already enjoyed five consecutive years of positive earnings. Through acquisitions and the formation of strategic alliances with some of the world’s most renowned airlines, it had become one of the top three airlines in Latin America. Additionally, its nearly 75-year-old brand name was among the most respected in the region.

Businesses create economic value (revenues, activity, paychecks, and shareholder value) though customer conversation. Is composition of those "value props" your highest priority?

A band of chiropractors recently bilked several insurance companies out of millions of dollars. And, Teradata customer, Highmark, used its business intelligence application to fight back.

Already a provider of voice and data services through landline telephone networks, tele.ring is fast becoming a major force in Austria’s mobile phone industry. In fact, since the 2000 launch of its mobile phone services, tele.ring has become the fastest-growing provider in Austria’s increasingly competitive telecommunications market.

They're integral to the business, command a central place in the IT architecture, and are mighty hard to replace. How do these vendors compare to your list? Teradata listed among top 10 most strategic IT vendors.

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care developed an Enterprise Logical Data Model and saved $1 million in infrastructure costs by using Teradata instead of Oracle.

Dick Cabela launched Cabela's from his kitchen in 1961. Now, the "world's foremost outfitter of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear" is a $1.8 billion dollar company experiencing a 15.7% year-over-year increase in sales, and aiming for $2 billion in sales this year thanks to Teradata.

Teradata’s Chief Technology Officer, Stephen Brobst, and Senior Vice President and General Manager, Michael Koehler discuss focus with Jim Ericson from DM Review.

The value of enterprise data warehouses includes providing a single view of the business, enabling business growth, and helping executives make better, faster decisions.

Executives who understand the power of enterprise intelligence will take business into a more competitive and intelligent future by implementing active data warehousing.

This Teradata Magazine article focuses on Teradata partner "Mantas." It details the Behavior Detection platform and Teradata Database performance.

This article, reprinted from DM Review but written by Teradata, highlights the Teradata Report on Enterprise Decision-Making showing that an overwhelming majority of respondents say that poor decision making is a serious problem for businesses.

Overstock.com has moved from six to 32 turns since 2006 with the help of an Enterprise Data Warehouse, analytic applications, e-business suite, and logical data models from Teradata.

Business Intelligence spending will reach more than $6.35 billion dollars in 2006, and it will continue to grow in 2007. Leading experts identify five key trends that are picking up momentum in BI and data warehousing, and it's these performance trends that will guide your future enterprise planning to success.

After AT&T merged with Cingular, a Teradata Data Warehouse helped handle new challenges - including the iPhone rollout, which created 4 million users in the first 200 days.

Hallmark shapes its marketing campaigns via its loyalty program as purchase histories are collected in a Teradata Warehouse and mined using SAS and MicroStrategy solutions.

One hundred years ago, Henry Ford made his dream a reality. With just $28,000 in capital he, along with 11 investors, incorporated Ford Motor Company. It took a little more than a month for the company to sell its first car, and over the next 19 years, it sold 15 million Model Ts. The rest, as they say, is history.

Technology is only as good as its implementation. That’s why, in addition to offering the best-of-breed solution, Teradata employs 1,400 Professional Services consultants around the world.

Mark Jeffery, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University shares his ideas on IT investments and Technology Portfolio Management.

Learn how inferior information quality adversely affects risk management and discover ways to cost effectively address the problem.

Is your enterprise leveraging its information for maximum value in business decision-making? Find out in this exclusive Teradata.com interview with Ranjay Gulati, Professor, Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Northwestern University).

By 2007, more than 500 users from executives down to regional managers at Hyatt Hotel will have an enterprise view of both operational and financial data.

Martha Rogers explains Return on Customer (ROC)—a metric as essential as ROI in understanding how to grow customer—and company—value.

Embedded capacitors can lower costs and produce faster times to market by freeing up board areas, eliminating mechanical restraints, increasing functionality and decreasing board size.

Implementing enterprise data warehouse and master data management strategies present challenges that can be successfully overcome by designing effective processes along with the right choice of technology and resources.  EDW and MDM share a symbiotic relationship that successfully enables their respective capabilities. 

Should a company's marketing department be the sole manager of the customer relationship?  To realize a true customer equity optimization (CEO) strategy, the ownership of the customer relationship is elevated to the enterprise level.  With the help of analytical software and sophisticated marketing tools, your company can understand, track and articulate how your business is optimizing customer equity.

When done right, it pays to integrate. Those words ring true with Cardinal Health, a company that distributes one in every three pharmaceutical products dispensed in the United States. Cardinal has eight Teradata servers that act as one, generates four to five million transactions per day, and users have immediate access to more than three terabytes of data.

This article, reprinted from Best's Review, addresses catastrophe planning for the insurance industry.  Among the conclusions presented in the article is that "the only way to be prepared" is to "collect, store, analyze, leverage, and distribute data."

An executive summary of a Teradata/Stanford Global Supply Chain Forum Roundtable discussion on Supply Chain Analytics.

Coca Cola Japan is turning to Teradata to battle a complex, competitive market with short product lifecycles.

Mike Ferguson, Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited, discusses why companies need Master Data Management to compete.

This article tells how you can join companies like Wachovia in preparing with Master Data Management strategies that unite and archive data from disparate sources.

Andy Mulholland, CTO of Capgemini, discusses the evolution from big, one-size-fits-all applications to smaller, more flexible ones.  The benefits of such and transition tips are included.

This article reprint from Telecommunications Magazine Online discusses the solution with Teradata and Agilent for Telecommunications providers.

Online retailer Overstock.com is looking to Teradata to help it create a holistic view of its business with the Teradata Warehouse and related suite of solutions.  By effectively leveraging its data, Overstock.com will be able to gain better business insight and drive more meaningful customer interactions.

Before you can answer that question, you first must know the definition … the basics as defined by industry leader, Dr. Claudia Imhoff.  Often poor-quality data is hard to define. However, Imhoff points out that inaccurate, incomplete, and misleading data can lead to bad decision making - thus prevailing as "poor data." Without the right data, you only have mistaken analysis erroneous decisions.

Based on proven research, a Consulting Professor at Stanford University shows how to turn risk into opportunity to deliver quantifiable business value and a sustainable competitive advantage.

CSS Versicherung has enjoyed a century of near-continuous growth, thanks to its focus on providing personalized service in the sometimes-impersonal health insurance industry. The company’s Swiss client base now numbers 1.2 million, and the company’s 2,000 employees process some 8 million claims every year.

This is a reprint of a report issued by GBA in August 2004 describing how quality of service is a factor in pricing, billing, discounting, service level agreements (SLAs) for business customers, and marketing and customer management.

Fraught at the thought of ROI for IT? Get a broad overview of the hows and whys of IT ROI with this article. Includes cases, finance terminology and solid advice on how to go about this calculation.

New SAS and Teradata integrated solution will move analytical data inside the data warehouse for faster performance.

This article, reprinted from Forbes.com, addresses managing risks in the supply chain through data warehousing.

Is risk more concentrated in the financial industry? Douglas McKibben, Research Vice President, Banking, Gartner Industry Advisory Services, thinks so. He shares his views on how risk management has changed over the past five to ten years, how risks might evolve in the near future, and how financial enterprises can manage risks now and in the future.

The article examines how firms achieve high performance with a simultaneous focus on their top and bottom lines by aggressively developing and managing relationships with four critical stakeholders: customers, suppliers, partners, and intra-organizational business units.

As organizations strive to comply with regulations and beat the competition, more are turning to financial performance management run on a data warehouse. The data warehouse, with advanced analytics helps organizations effectively manage financial performance while enjoying operational and bottom-line benefits.

With a goal of moving from "worst to first," Continental has been implementing upgrades, increasing its routes, keeping prices steady, realizing cost savings, and focusing on customers. And, after all the hard work, it's finally paying off.

This article from DM Review is about best practices in IT. Teradata's strategies, tools and resources are featured. It discusses how Teradata's data warehousing technology helps build customer loyalty while generating solid business results.

This solution addresses the maintenance, repair, overhaul (MRO) and related logistics needs of companies whose performance depends on the management of long-life and high-value assets. The implementation of this solution at the U.S. Air Force is highlighted in this paper.

By using Teradata to determine the historical pattern of merchandise buying and sales, Grupo Gigante is moving ever closer to its customer-centric goal.  As a result, the company has been making better buying decisions in such categories as food, electronics and apparel.

See how Warner Home Video uses powerful business intelligence tools to build the precise forecasts that have helped them become the leader in this volatile sector.

As the state slogan says "Don't Mess with Texas." The state of Texas Comptroller's office was one of the first tax divisions to use Teradata technology. Since the program was implemented in 1998, Texas has collected more than $600 million in additional taxes - roughly more than $1 million per week.

This Teradata sponsored report is designed for business and technical executives who are responsible for planning and implementing programs for data warehousing.

Teradata announces the availability of Teradata Warehouse Miner 5.0, a comprehensive suite of data-mining software that significantly automates data preparation and dramatically accelerates performance of its partners' data-mining tools.

Teradata is making inroads into computer turf and says more then 90 Oracle customers have switched to Teradata systems in the past few years.

Teradata and SAP are coordinating their data-analysis solutions in order to complement SAP's Business Information Warehouse, as it struggles to cope with large quantities of data.

This report details how Teradata’s Value Analyzer helps financial and insurance related organizations understand customer value and CRM.

By leveraging active data warehousing technology, retailers can remove the disconnects and improve communication among merchants, vendors, customers, and associates throughout the day, enabling them to cohesively respond to the business events that drive increased profitability in near real time.

Mike Koehler and Jim Goodnight discuss the SAS, Teradata partnership. Learn about the strategic aspects of the partnership from the companies’ top executives.

Rob Armstrong, Teradata's Director of Data Warehouse Support, discusses the difference between data warehouse usage and value, and how high usage doesn't always lead to high value. He also explains how to get more value from your data warehouse, and how value can positively impact you business.

Baseline's Hands-on Community focuses on Warner Home Video's need to increase its sales forecasting. With inaccuracies of nearly 40%, Warner decreased its error rate to 5% by deploying a Teradata Warehouse. 

This article explains the importance of ERM within the insurance industry and details why crossing all functional levels of a business (corporate, business unit, and frontline services) is critical to implementation and overall success.

Executives who understand the power of enterprise intelligence will take business into a more competitive and intelligent future by implementing active data warehousing.

Teradata reduced Wesco’s month-end sales analysis completion time to 75 minutes in real-time processing and save the company more than $13 million.

Teradata announced that Trump Entertainment Resorts, a leading gaming company, would use Teradata’s data warehouse solutions and the Compudigm seePOWER gaming portfolio.

This article, reprinted from 1to1media.com, highlights Travelocity's migration to an active data warehouse, its launch of the Travelocity Guarantee and Customer Bill of Rights, and its "journey. . . to increased business value."  The article emphasizes the importance of activating the data warehouse in order to understand customer behavior, optimize customer relationships, and increase the bottom line.

Move key components of BI, analytics and data integration processes from the server or desktop to inside the database and help shorten your time to intelligence.

The partnership between Attensity and Teradata creates a powerful data solution. This combined solution integrates all business data, both structured and unstructured, and provides a highly scalable environment for accessing and analyzing large volumes of data.

How can Customer Insight increase both customer loyalty and long-term wallet share for organizations today... and into the future? Alton Adams, Global Managing Partner for Accenture's Customer Insight practice in the CRM Global Service Line, takes a look at this and other key questions. Accenture and Teradata have had a strong marketing alliance since 2001.

Jane Griffin, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP shares her views on Master Data Management. Master Data Management is the process of ensuring that a company's key reference information - on customers, vendors, products, etc. -- is accurate and consistent across the enterprise. With accurate information, company management can make better, more efficient decisions and improve operational efficiencies.

Numerous companies promote the use of Enterprise Data Warehousing. There are five key characteristics of a true EDW that everyone should look to ensure proper selection.

This interview is with Martha Rogers, Ph.D., Duke University adjunct professor and co-founder of the Peppers and Rogers Group. Dr. Rogers is one of the world's leading experts on customer-based business strategies and growing customer value. She talks about Duke's first annual Customer Strategy Visionaries Summit.

Teradata CRM Solution drove the overwhelmingly successful marketing initiative for Grupo Cortefiel's loyalty program to signing up 4.2 million customers.