The ETI Solution for Teradata Accelerates Data Exchange Between Data Warehousing Applications; ETI Accelerator For SQL/Teradata Fully Utilizes Parallelism of Teradata Database Engine.

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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 3, 2001

Evolutionary Technologies International Inc. (ETI)(tm), a leading provider of enterprise-wide data integration solutions, today introduced ETI Accelerator(tm) for SQL/Teradata.

ETI Accelerator for SQL/Teradata accelerates the transformation and exchange of data between data-warehousing applications hosted on Teradata(R) Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS).

Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR), offers powerful analytical solutions that help businesses drive growth. Teradata solutions include the Teradata database and analytical applications for customer relationship management (CRM), operations and financial management, business performance management and e-business.

"With the push towards more personalized customer service and targeted marketing campaigns, many organizations are adding customer-centric data warehouses to Teradata," said Juan-Carlos Martinez, vice president of marketing, Evolutionary Technologies International. "ETI Accelerator for SQL/Teradata gives them the means to maximize their investment in Teradata by taking full advantage of its unique, parallel functionality to speed implementation of new applications."

In most data integration projects, for data to be shared, it must first be extracted from the source application and transformed into a format compatible with the target application. ETI Accelerator for SQL/Teradata automates the generation of SQL scripts that extract, transform and load data between applications residing on Teradata, thereby leveraging the Teradata engine for high-performance processing of the data. Automated code generation saves organizations the time and expense of manually coding data transformations, an error-prone and time-consuming process.

ETI Accelerator for SQL/Teradata also retains a full metadata audit trail, which is a high-level description of transformations made to the data. If data values or definitions change within Teradata or its hosted applications, the audit trail allows SQL statements to be easily regenerated. Handcoding data transformations fails to capture metadata.

ETI Accelerator for SQL/Teradata includes a GUI-driven, point-and-click interface. This feature enables nontechnical users to create complex SQL statements for data transformations by specifying business rules in plain English. Experienced SQL programmers can then be better utilized on more crucial aspects of the project.

About ETI

Evolutionary Technologies International(R) (ETI)(tm) is the preferred provider of enterprise-wide data integration solutions for Global 2000 companies. The ETI Solution(tm) reduces the infrastructure costs associated with the consolidation, transformation and exchange of information between incompatible systems by generating interfaces that enable the seamless flow of data between any platform, system or application. More than 370 customers worldwide rely on the ETI Software Solution(tm) to implement corporate initiatives in customer relationship management, e-business, enterprise resource planning, enterprise application integration and data warehousing.

Founded in 1991, ETI is based in Austin, Texas and has regional offices in major U.S. cities, Europe and Australia. The company maintains a Web site at www.eti.com.

Evolutionary Technologies International, the ETI logo, ETI, ETI EXTRACT, ETI Solution, ETI Software Solution, ETI Plug-ins, Data System Library, ETI Accelerators, ETI MetaSchedulers and ETI Impact Analyst are trademarks or registered trademarks of Evolutionary Technologies International Inc.

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(c) 2001 Evolutionary Technologies International Inc.

NOTE TO EDITORS: In the product names "ETI EXTRACT," "ETI Plug-ins," "ETI Accelerators," "ETI MetaSchedulers" and "ETI Impact Analyst," there is a bullet between "ETI" and the second part of the product name. The bullet was removed for transmission purposes only.