Teradata Continues Business Momentum.Fueled by Three Primary Business Drivers - Customers, Solutions and Partnerships DAYTON, Ohio -- Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :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 ), the global leader in data warehouse-driven enterprise analytics, continues to expand its customer base and add to its solution portfolio and partnerships. "What we do best is help our customers gain competitive advantage through active enterprise intelligence - which is the alignment of strategic and operational decision-making throughout an organization," said Bob Fair, vice president of business strategy and chief marketing officer for Teradata. "This customer-focused approach helped us to achieve healthy growth in 2006." Fair said that Teradata's performance has laid a strong foundation as the division prepares for its separation from parent NCR. NCR announced on Jan. 8, 2007, that it intends to separate into two independent publicly traded companies publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. through the spin off of 100 percent of the company's Teradata data warehousing business to NCR's shareholders. "Organizations' critical need for leveraging data across the enterprise - and applying analytics to provide the most valuable information assets - has always been the core of the Teradata mission," said Mark Smith, chief executive officer and executive vice president of research for analyst firm Ventana Research. "Teradata's continued focus on customer success and satisfaction, along with their continued investment to broaden and deepen their solutions, has driven them to be one of the key technology suppliers in the industry." Teradata and analysts see enterprise data warehousing as the superior data warehousing architecture that companies utilize to build their enterprise analytics infrastructure, Fair noted. "The need for analytics has never been greater. The way companies use information to drive strategic and operational decision-making is the basis for competition. Teradata will continue to increase the availability of business solutions - from Teradata and our partners - to help our customers drive more value from integrated detailed enterprise-wide data as well as to extend our technology lead in active data warehousing." New Teradata customers and major upgrades across the world Fair noted that Teradata's roster of world-class customers is growing across all industries, from new customers to data warehouse expansions by existing customers to orders for new analytical solutions and consulting services. Some of the business leaders placing orders with Teradata include: * Financial Services (Banking and Insurance): ABN-Amro (China), Argencard (Argentina), Banco Bradesco, Barclay's Bank (U.K.), BPH BPH abbr. benign prostatic hyperplasia BPH Benign prostatic hypertrophy, a very common noncancerous cause of prostatic enlargement in older men. Bank (Poland), Caixa Galicia Bank (Spain), China Everbright Bank, Commercial International Bank (Egypt), Corona Direct (Belgium), DnB Nor (Norway), Health Care Services Corporation, Hua Nan Commercial Bank (Taiwan), Norwich Union (U.K.), Russian Standard Bank, Siam Commercial Bank Siam Commercial Bank Public Company Limited,(Thai:ธนาคารไทยพาณิชย์) is a Thai commercial bank. Its largest shareholder is the Crown Property Bureau. The bank has over 13,000 employees. (Thailand), UnumProvident Corp., and several other leading U.S. and international financial institutions * Retail and Hospitality: Bottega Verde (Italy), Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. Stores, Hallmark Cards Inc., hhgregg stores, Hudson's Bay Company Hudson's Bay Company, corporation chartered (1670) by Charles II of England for the purpose of trade and settlement in the Hudson Bay region of North America and for exploration toward the discovery of the Northwest Passage to Asia. (Canada), Iceland Frozen Foods (U.K.), Libertad (Argentina), Limited Brands Inc., Loblaw's (Canada), Mango (Spain), Meredith Corp., METRO (Germany), Overstock.com, Sears Holdings, Tesco (U.K.), The Warehouse (New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. ), and many other premiere names in the global retail industry * Communications, Media and Entertainment: AEG AEG Aeger (Latin: Sick) AEG Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (Common Electricity Company) AEG Aircraft Evaluation Group AEG Association of Engineering Geologists AEG Air Expeditionary Group - Anschutz Entertainment Group The Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) is a sporting and music entertainment presenter and a subsidiary of The Anschutz Corporation. The company owns or operates several major entertainment/sporting venues, including Staples Center and The Home Depot Center and beginning in , Amp'd Mobile, Canal+ Group (France), eBay, Harrah's Entertainment, Mobilink (Pakistan), Mohegan Sun, Penn National Gaming Penn National Gaming, Inc. NASDAQ: PENN is a diversified owner and operator of casino properties, as well as horse racetracks and associated off-track betting facilities primarily in the United States. , Polkomtel S.A. (Poland), Proximus (Belgium), Telecom Egypt, Trump Entertainment Resorts Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. is a holding company which owns, operates and manages casinos/hotels in the United States The company was formed in 2005 as a result of the restructing of its predecessor Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts. Donald J. , VIBO Telecom (Taiwan), Xinjiang Telecom (China) - and other leaders in global entertainment, feature film companies, and the wireline and wireless industries * Travel: Alitalia (Italy), Continental Airlines, Lufthansa (Germany), Travelocity - and name-brand freight carriers and passenger airlines in the United States * Government, Public Sector:Australian Taxation Office, China Post Express Mail Service, Czech Post, La Poste Italiane, SABESP (Brazil), State of Texas, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Noun 1. Department of Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 Health and Human Services, HHS , Minnesota Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Defense - Transportation Command, and numerous other U.S. federal and state government organizations * Manufacturing, Distribution, Services: Chi Mei Optoelectronics (Taiwan), DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, 3M Corporation, Tenneco Inc., leading soft drink bottlers, and PC and chip-makers Teradata grows solution portfolio In 2006, Teradata introduced new analytic applications, products and acquired solutions, enhancing its portfolio and more importantly, growing the capabilities of our customers. * Teradata[R] Warehouse 8.2, a comprehensive suite of high-end hardware, software and consulting services for managing active enterprise intelligence * Teradata Warehouse Miner 5.0, a comprehensive suite of data-mining software that significantly automates data preparation and dramatically accelerates performance of partners' data-mining tools * Teradata Finance and Performance Management, Teradata Master Data Management, Teradata Enterprise Risk Management, a new version of Teradata Customer Relationship Management, and new SeeChain capabilities in Teradata's Demand and Supply-Chain Management solution for greater visibility and traceability in supply-chain management New and evolving partnership activities enhance Teradata customer capabilities Teradata continues to add, develop and expand partner relationships and partner analytic solutions optimized for Teradata. * In January 2007, Microsoft and Teradata announced they are working together to optimize interoperability between Microsoft([R]) business intelligence solutions and Teradata([R]) Enterprise Data Warehouse to help information workers gain access to, analyze and report on critical data more quickly, and help streamline the delivery of business intelligence applications. * Teradata continues to extend its set of SAP NetWeaver-certified integration tools through partnerships, expanding its SAP commitment. * Many of Teradata's other core data warehousing partners continue to optimize their solutions for joint customers including Ab Initio [Latin, From the beginning; from the first act; from the inception.] An agreement is said to be "void ab initio" if it has at no time had any legal validity. , Attensity, Business Objects, Cognos, Compudigm, Computer Associates, Fair Isaac, Goldengate, Hyperion, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) IIS (Internet Information Services) Microsoft's Web server. IIS runs under the server versions of Windows, adding HTTP server capability to the Windows operating system. , Informatica, KXEN, Microstrategy, Oracle Business Analytics (formerly Siebel), Oracle Data Integrator (formerly Sunopsis), SPSS A statistical package from SPSS, Inc., Chicago (www.spss.com) that runs on PCs, most mainframes and minis and is used extensively in marketing research. It provides over 50 statistical processes, including regression analysis, correlation and analysis of variance. and Trillium. Also growing is Teradata's portfolio of industry partners including vendors such as Datavantage, Mantas, Retaligent, Scorecard, Sungard and Thomson Medstat. * Teradata's systems integrator partnerships with Accenture, BearingPoint, Capgemini and Deloitte continue to lead to new joint solution opportunities. Analyst reports and industry recognition continue The information technology analyst community has reported extensively on Teradata. For example, Teradata is positioned by Gartner in the leaders quadrant in three categories: the worldwide market for Data Warehouse DBMS (DataBase Management System) Software that controls the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in a database. It accepts requests from the application and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data. Servers [DBMS Report]; the worldwide market for Data Warehouse DBMS Systems [DW Systems Report]; and the Multichannel Campaign Management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) applications marketplace ("Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Campaign Management, 1Q06" by Adam Sarner, published March 30, 2006). Teradata customers also earned global recognition for leadership in analytics, operational excellence, and data warehouse-driven business performance. These include prestigious awards from The Data Warehouse Institute, which presented "Best Practices Awards" to Royal Bank of Canada Bank of Canada Canada's central bank, established under the Bank of Canada Act (1934). It was founded during the Great Depression to regulate credit and currency. The Bank acts as the Canadian government's fiscal agent and has the sole right to issue paper money. (for best Enterprise Data Warehouse); Nationwide Insurance (for best Master Data Management); Pannon GSM - (for best Predictive Analytics); and BNSF Railway, Inc. (for Business Performance Management). In August, Ventana Research named Teradata customer BNSF Railway Company the winner of the 2006 Award for Finance and Performance Management. Chinatrust Commercial Bank won a FinTech Asia Award for outstanding Customer Analytics. Ford Motor Company had the winning case study in the 2006 Supply and Demand Chain Executive 100. Nationwide Insurance won the Technology Managers Forum Best Practice Award for Technology Innovation. BNSF BNSF Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (railroad) was the Best Practice Winner in the InfoWorld 100 for Data Consolidation and Business Forecasting. National Australia Bank The National Australia Bank or NAB (ASX: NAB, LSE: NAB, NYSE: NAB, TYO: 8637 ) is part of the NAB Group. It is the largest bank in Australia by assets, and 28th largest in the world. (NAB) was the winner for Most Effective Customer Segmentation Strategy in the "ifs" Financial Innovation Awards - NAB was also named the DMA's Financial Services Company of the Year. Winners of the DM Review World-Class Solution Awards included the RBC RBC red blood cell. RBC or rbc abbr. red blood cell RBC, n See red blood cell count. RBC red blood cells; red blood (cell) count (see blood count). Financial Group (for enterprise data warehousing), Airlines Reporting Corporation (for business intelligence) and Nationwide Insurance (for data management). In December, the National Center for Database Marketing honored Overstock.com - together with Teradata - with the DMA (1) (Digital Media Adapter) See digital media hub. (2) (Document Management Alliance) A specification that provides a common interface for accessing and searching document databases. Platinum Award for overall information technology excellence - plus a Gold Award for superior Technology Applications (CRM). About Teradata Division Teradata (www.teradata.com), a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR), is the global technology leader in enterprise data warehousing, analytic applications and data warehousing services. Organizations around the world rely on the power of Teradata's award-winning solutions to get a single, integrated view of their business to enhance decision-making, customer relationships and profitability. As a growing business, Teradata is always looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. outstanding talent. To learn more about Teradata career opportunities, visit www.teradata.com/careers. About NCR Corporation NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR) is a leading global technology company helping businesses build stronger relationships with their customers. NCR's Teradata[R] data warehouses, ATMs, retail systems, self-service solutions and IT services provide Relationship Technology[TM] that maximizes the value of customer interactions and helps organizations create a stronger competitive position. Based in Dayton, Ohio, NCR (www.ncr.com) employs approximately 28,900 people worldwide. The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted August 2006, September 2006, and March 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. 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