Section B: Number 2 TERADATA

According to companys website, Teradata position itself as the worlds largest company which is focused on analytic data solutions through integrated data warehousing, big data analytics, and business applications (Teradata, 2012). Company provides various solutions to satisfy most common business needs, such as: big data analytics, data governance, data warehouse migration, financial management, tax and revenue management, business intelligence, data mart consolidation, demand planning, SAP integration, Master data management, customer relationship management, data mining and analytics, enterprise risk management etc. In terms of the business intelligence solutions, Teradata offers an Active Enterprise Intelligence platform which combines two types of business intelligence strategic and operational business intelligence. Strategic business intelligence solutions provided by the company are designed for planners, financial analysts and marketing managers so that they would have a possibility to use historical trends and insights to make informed decisions concerning customers, inventory, suppliers, products, and partners (Teradata, 2012). Operational business intelligence module is designed for utilization by front-line workers and systems which are involved in making of dayto-day business decisions (e.g. cashiers, customer representatives, call-center agents etc.). Active Enterprise Intelligence platform is delivered through Active Data Warehousing services provided by the company as well as business intelligence solutions of companys partners. Besides Active Enterprise Intelligence, Teradata also provide Integrated Analytics solutions which include such business intelligence features as (Teradata, 2012): Data Exploration - visual data exploration to quickly understand and analyze data within the database; OLAP Optimization - built-in multidimensional analytics optimization; Geospatial - native in-database geospatial data types and analytics; Temporal - native in-database temporal support to manage and update time data and analytics; Advanced Analytics- optimized in-database data mining technology from leading vendors, open source, and Teradata; Agile Analytics - in-database data labs to accelerate exploration of new data and ideas; Big Data Integration - partner tools to analyze unstructured and structured data; Application Development - tools and techniques to accelerate development of in-database analytics. Teradatas most business intelligence technologies are based on their main

product Active Data Warehousing. Therefore, for organizations who decide to choose this vendor for business intelligence implementation, it is essential to use also vendors warehouse. The main disadvantage of this vendor is lack of the specific information and examples of the tools which can be used for business intelligence.