NCR Purchases Advanced Multimedia and Parallel Database Technology.DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 1997--NCR Corporation today announced it has purchased multimedia and parallel database technology, developed at the University of Wisconsin, to be used in future versions of its NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers Teradata relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. management software. The new technology will be used to enhance the existing "object relational" multimedia capabilities of Teradata for decision-support data warehouses. Object relational database software, a market projected to grow to $7 billion by 2004, will help businesses use complex data types, like check images in the financial industry or geographic map images in the transportation industry, to solve business problems. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. "This investment is a clear indication that NCR intends for Teradata to remain the premier decision-support database," said Bill Eisenman, senior vice president of NCR's Computer Systems Group. "Support for multimedia data types in databases will become increasingly important in emerging applications, especially in the areas of Internet electronic commerce and data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse . The technology that we acquired today will help extend the capabilities of Teradata so that customers will be able to get even more valuable business insights from their data warehouses." As part of the agreement, NCR also announced it will donate $500,000 to the University to fund two graduate fellowships and will open an advanced database research lab in Madison, Wis., near the University. The new lab will support NCR in developing new database technologies, and will complement the work under way at NCR's Parallel Systems research and software development facilities in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. and El Segundo El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif. Teradata's current Multimedia Services enable customers to capture, store, retrieve and manipulate non-traditional data types - including image, video and audio graphics, animation, text, and other user-defined data types - as well as link them to traditional alphanumeric relational information. The next step will be to enable customers to analyze objects, or perform "deep-content analysis,' which allows a user to go beyond the data and literally use images in the database to get answers to their business questions. "This technology is an excellent fit for NCR's data warehouse solutions," said David DeWitt David J. DeWitt is the John P. Morgridge Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor DeWitt received a B.A. degree from Colgate University in 1970, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1976. , an industry expert in relational databases and a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, "It will be a powerful complement to NCR's Multimedia Services for Teradata because it supports open systems and is based on parallel database technology." About NCR NCR (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : NCR) is a world leader in customer transactions by providing businesses the ability to capture, process and analyze data so they can turn the resulting knowledge into actions that improve their relationship with their customers. The company, with headquarters in Dayton, Ohio Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. As of the 2005 census estimate, the population of Dayton was 158,873. , has 38,000 employees, including 20,000 service professionals in 1,100 locations and 130 countries. More information on NCR and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at: http://www.ncr.com NCR and NCR Teradata are registered trademarks of NCR Corporation (company) NCR Corporation - Electronics company mainly active in the midrange server market. NCR was founded 1884 as National Cash Register Company. It joint the computer industry in th 1950s. . All other products and company names are trademarks of their respective owners. -0- NCR Purchases Advanced Multimedia and Parallel Technology FACT SHEET About NCR Data Warehousing Solutions Since 1984, companies around the world have been dramatically changing the way they transact business by using NCR's industry-leading data warehouse solutions based on the NCR Teradata database engine. Today, more than 800 NCR data marts and data warehouses are helping companies do strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , analyze customer trends, streamline operations, and stay ahead of their competitors. As the market-share leader in data warehousing, NCR offers a competitively priced portfolio of data warehousing, data mart and data mining solutions to customers in all industries, including industry-specific solutions for retail, financial and communications customers. Based on an open systems framework, the foundation for NCR's data warehouse solutions consists of the NCR Teradata RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database , designed to analyze both small and massive amounts of data; scalable NCR WorldMark servers; and comprehensive data warehousing consulting service and support offerings, as well as world-class partner software and tools. About NCR Teradata RDBMS - the Data Warehouse Engine Helping businesses gain new insights, NCR Teradata RDBMS is the only decision-support database with the power and performance to answer any question, on any data, at any time. Parallel database technology is the foundation for NCR Teradata RDBMS, which uses a patented shared-nothing, parallel processing architecture, which means no bottle necks and, consequently, powerful performance. Teradata's architecture is deployed on both SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. (symmetric multi-processing) and MPP (Massively Parallel Processing or Massively Parallel Processor) A multiprocessing architecture that uses up to thousands of processors. Some might contend that a computer system with 64 or more CPUs is a massively parallel processor. (massively parallel processing) hardware platforms, enabling data warehouses to scale from very small to very large. NCR Teradata provides industry-leading performance, unlimited scalability from 10 gigabytes to more than 100 terabytes, seamless connectivity and the lowest administration requirements of any database on the market. Teradata runs on UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , and will be available on Windows NT and Sun Solaris. Visit the NCR Teradata web site at http://www.ncr.com/teradata. CONTACT: Jim Mazzola NCR 937-445-6148 jim.mazzola@daytonoh.ncr.com or Elizabeth Berglund Edelman Worldwide 212-704-4527 eberglun@edelman.com |
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