AMR's Data Warehouse analyst, Paul Kirby, closes this with "… For business users struggling to perform analysis across multiple data sources… We recommend companies using R/3 to seriously consider the BW/Teradata combination as part of an overall enterprise data warehousing strategy."

This case study, written and published by IDC, features Belgian direct insurance company Corona Direct and their implementation of a Teradata data warehouse along with software from DataDistilleries for customer management.

Three-quarters of data in the average data warehouse comes from structured sources, although only half of data across the rest of the enterprise is structured. Most organizations need to close this gap; otherwise, the data warehouse will remain a single version of the truth, but not the whole truth.

The technology stack for business intelligence and data warehousing is currently expanding to accommodate two relatively new additions, namely BI search and text analytics. Although each stands ably on its own, the two are related in that they tend to operate on unstructured data.

TDWI Technology Market Reports provide TDWI Members an annual overview of an important technology sector within the business intelligence (BI) market. Technology Market Reports highlight the major events in the sector for the previous 12 months, predict the segment’s future direction, and provide a comparative review of the leading products in the sector.

AMR suggests in this report that the goal of collecting customer data should not be to generate reports, but rather to increase revenue while decreasing costs. And it identifies a centralized customer data source as a best practice for realizing such returns.

In a report by AMR Research, Hershey shared its unique approach for implementing SAP APO DP. The company used both Teradata and SAP to maximize the value of demand planning from multiple streams of data.

To shed more objective light on the current state of the art in Business Performance Management, we conducted an extensive study of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) from 780 of the largest corporations in the United States1. This makes it one of the largest studies ever conducted in the field of BPM.

Teradata provides the most scalable, mature, and flexible EDW solution portfolio on the market, and, through its recently released
2550 and 1550 platforms, offers an increasingly cost-effective solution portfolio for diverse customer requirements.

Find out why companies are migrating to Teradata, turning their tactical solutions into strategic solutions. Bill Inmon discusses why people are migrating to Teradata to get an enterprise-wide view of their business.

2009 will be anything but business as usual, with this recession predicted to go longer and be more profound than any other in most of our lifetimes. What should companies do in response? The answer is simple: improve capabilities to better sense demand. Companies need to reduce demand latency to see the upturn quicker. If not, decisions will be made two weeks too late.

This research report examines the nature and importance of data warehouse appliances to the area of business intelligence (BI) and specifically to data warehousing within the information technology (IT) infrastructure of an enterprise.

This report summarizes trends in the use of analytics in retail across eighteen different categories, as well as several more emerging analytical activities. It is based on interviews with 33 retailers, more than 25 retail analytics experts, and the published literature. For each analytical trend, the description, state of maturity, underlying rationale, and several exemplars in using the trend are presented.

Overview: This research report by Thomas Davenport discusses analytical options and trends in the retailing industry and opportunities available to retailers that adopt this approach.

Economic reality is clearly in the driver’s seat and will be the single largest factor affecting all IT spending in 2009. Vendors will deliver on new releases and functionality announced in 2008, as well as work hard to encourage upgrades and adoption. User priorities, on the other hand, will be more pragmatic.

AMR Research note on Teradata and SAP announcing their intent to jointly deliver SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW), which will run on Teradata’s enterprise data warehouse.

This independent report, from an MDM-focused consultancy, reviews Teradata MDM from all angles: workflow, Excel integration, SAP integration, pricing approach, CDI/PIM applications, and customer deployments at Intel and Wachovia.

Read this recap of AMR Research conference session "Using Shopper Insights to Improve Joint Value Creation"

Forrester Research highlights EDW best practices that push the scalability and performance envelope without sacrificing agility.

TDWI study examines business intelligence next steps beyond reporting: understanding analytics.

Few companies know how to use the data around them. This report from AMR Research helps companies make the transition to use downstream data to make money.

BeyeNetwork report examines state of the art in designing and implementing operational BI solutions, including data and event analytics, techniques, technologies, benefits.

This Teradata-sponsored TDWI Checklist Report, by Philip Russom, seeks to clear the confusion by listing and explaining data requirements that are unique to advanced analytics.

As an antidote to information silos, this TDWI report by Phil Russom describes a trend toward unified data management (UDM) to achieve business goals.

The Information Difference Data Warehouse Landscape report is a high-level assessment of the main and most innovative vendors in the Data Warehouse Market in Q4, 2009.

The Information Difference Data Warehouse Landscape report is a high-level assessment of the main and most innovative vendors in the Data Warehouse Market in Q4 2009.