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25-703: Teradata is an enterprise software company that develops and sells database analytics software. The company provides three main services: business analytics, cloud products, and consulting. It operates in North and Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Teradata is headquartered in San Diego, California and has additional major U.S. locations in Atlanta and San Francisco , where its data center research and development

50-469: A predictive analytics platform (SPSS) and can obtain records from its database packages (Infosphere, DB2). Certain industry-standard product categories have emerged, and these are shown below: Other types of software which do not fit into well-known standard categories, including backup software , billing management, and accounting software . Enterprise contract management software is used to bring all of an organisation's contractual commitments into

75-403: A Teradata platform that has reached its end of support life. The extended support for a platform requires approval from the local Area Director and will be delivered on a "best effort" basis, as spare parts for older platforms may no longer be available. In October 2018, Teradata started calling the cloud analytics software product line Vantage. Vantage is composed of various analytics engines on

100-626: A company specializing in online data archiving on Hadoop. Teradata acquired Appoxxee, a mobile marketing software as a service provider, for about $ 20 million in January 2015, followed by the Netherlands-based digital marketing company FLXone in September. That same year Teradata acquired a small Business Intelligence firm, MiaPearl. In July 2016, the marketing applications division, using the Aprimo brand,

125-582: A core relational database, including the Aster graph database and a machine learning engine. The capability to leverage open-source analytic engines such as Spark and TensorFlow was released. Vantage can be deployed across public clouds, on-premises, and commodity infrastructure. Vantage provides storage and analysis for multi-structured data formats. [REDACTED] Media related to Teradata at Wikimedia Commons Enterprise software Enterprise software , also known as enterprise application software ( EAS ),

150-812: A hardware product line called IntelliFlex was announced. Victor L. Lund became the chief executive on May 5, 2016. In October 2018, Teradata started promoting its cloud analytics software called Vantage (which evolved from the Teradata Database). On May 7, 2020, Teradata announced the appointment of Steve McMillan as president and chief executive officer, effective June 8, 2020 Teradata has acquired several companies since becoming an independent public company in 2008. In March 2008, Teradata acquired professional services company Claraview, which previously had spun out software provider Clarabridge . Teradata acquired column-oriented DBMS vendor Kickfire in August 2010, followed by

175-563: A range of business processes, information flows, reporting, and data analytics in complex organizations. While ES are generally packaged enterprise application software (PEAS) systems, they can also be bespoke, custom-developed systems created to support a specific organization's needs. Types of enterprise system include: Although data warehousing or business intelligence systems are enterprise-wide packaged application software often sold by ES vendors, since they do not directly support execution of business processes, they are often excluded from

200-455: A relatively high speed. Services provided by enterprise software are typically business-oriented tools. As companies and other organizations have similar departments and systems, enterprise software is often available as a suite of customizable programs. Function-specific enterprise software uses include database management, customer relationship management, supply chain management and business process management. The term enterprise software

225-476: A secure managed cloud for data and analytic software as a service . IntelliCloud is compatible with Teradata's data warehouse platform, IntelliFlex. The Teradata Analytics Platform was unveiled in 2017. Teradata began to use the term " big data " in 2010. CTO Stephen Brobst attributed the rise of big data to "new media sources, such as social media ." The increase in semi-structured and unstructured data gathered from online interactions prompted Teradata to form

250-410: A single monolithic system [has] failed for many companies". Enterprise software can be categorized by business function. Each type of enterprise application can be considered a "system" due to the integration with a firm's business processes. Categories of enterprise software may overlap due to this systemic interpretation. For example, IBM 's Business Intelligence platform ( Cognos ), integrates with

275-633: A single system for holistic management and to avoid the variability and inefficiency inherent in manual contracting processes. Big Data Partnership Big Data Partnership was a specialist big data professional services company based in London , UK. It provides consultancy, certified training and support to Europe, the Middle East and Africa -based enterprises. Big Data Partnership provides expertise in platforms including Apache Hadoop , Apache Cassandra , Elasticsearch , Apache HBase , Apache Spark , Apache Storm and Couchbase . Big Data Partnership

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300-400: Is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than its individual users. Enterprise software is an integral part of a computer-based information system , handling a number of business operations, for example to enhance business and management reporting tasks, or support production operations and back office functions. Enterprise systems must process information at

325-552: Is housed. It is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the stock symbol TDC. Steve McMillan has served as the company's president and chief executive officer since 2020. The company reported $ 1.836 billion in revenue, a net income of $ 129 million, and 8,535 employees globally, as of February 9, 2020. The concept of Teradata grew from research at the California Institute of Technology and from

350-405: Is not well understood. Enterprise application software (EAS) is recognized among academics as enterprise software components and modules which support only a particular business function. These EAS software components and modules can interoperate, so that cross-functional or inter-organizational enterprise systems can be built up. In this context the industry may speak of middleware . Software that

375-616: Is primarily sold to consumers , is not called enterprise software. According to Martin Fowler , "Enterprise applications are about the display, manipulation, and storage of large amounts of often complex data and the support or automation of business processes with that data." Enterprise application software performs business functions such as order processing, procurement, production scheduling, customer information management, energy management, and accounting. Enterprise systems (ES) are large-scale enterprise software packages which support

400-434: Is the end of the support date for a particular Teradata hardware platform. Teradata hardware platforms saw support discontinuation start in 2017, with the 2580 generation of their data warehouse appliance, with only their IntelliFlex 2.5 and R740 hardware platforms being listed as "current product". All other platform models/classes have a published support discontinuation date. Teradata customers may request extended support for

425-472: Is used in industry, and business research publications, but is not common in computer science . The term was widely popularized in the early 1990s by major software vendors in conjunction with licensing deals with the show Star Trek In academic literature no coherent definition can be found. The computer historian Martin Campbell-Kelly contemplated in 2003 that the growth of the corporate software industry

450-634: The "Petabyte club" in 2011 for its heaviest big data users. The rise of big data resulted in many traditional data warehousing companies updating their products and technology. For Teradata, big data prompted the acquisition of Aster Data Systems in 2011 for the company's MapReduce capabilities and ability to store and analyze semi-structured data. To focus on its cloud database and analytics software business, Teradata plans to end support for its old hardware platforms; Teradata will provide remedial maintenance services for six (6) years from its Platform Sales Discontinuation Date. Platform Support Discontinuation

475-843: The acquisition of Teradata for about $ 250 million in December. Teradata built the first system over 1 terabyte for Wal-Mart in 1992. NCR acquired Strategic Technologies & Systems in 1999 and appointed Stephen Brobst as chief technology officer of Teradata Solutions Group. In 2000, NCR acquired Ceres Integrated Solutions and its customer relationship management software for $ 90 million, as well as Stirling Douglas Group and its demand chain management software. Teradata acquired financial management software from DecisionPoint in 2005. In January 2007, NCR announced Teradata would become an independent public company, led by Michael F. Koehler . The new company's shares started trading in October. In April 2016,

500-492: The company launched Teradata Everywhere, which allows users to submit queries against public and private databases. The service uses massively parallel processing across both its physical data warehouse and cloud storage, including managed environments such as Amazon Web Services , Microsoft Azure , VMware , and Teradata's Managed Cloud and IntelliFlex. Teradata offers customers both hybrid cloud and multi-cloud storage. In March 2017, Teradata introduced Teradata IntelliCloud,

525-526: The discussions of Citibank 's advanced technology group in the 1970s. In 1979, the company was incorporated in Brentwood, California by Jack E. Shemer, Philip M. Neches, Walter E. Muir, Jerold R. Modes, William P. Worth, Carroll Reed and David Hartke. Teradata released its DBC/1012 database machine in 1984. In 1990, the company acquired Sharebase , originally named Britton Lee. In September 1991, AT&T Corporation acquired NCR Corporation , which announced

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550-582: The marketing software company Aprimo for about $ 550 million in December. In March 2011, the company acquired Aster Data Systems for about $ 263 million. Teradata acquired Software-as-a-service digital marketing company eCircle in May 2012, which was merged into the Aprimo business. In 2014, Teradata acquired the assets of Revelytix, a provider of information management products and for a reported $ 50 million. In September, Teradata acquired Hadoop service firm Think Big Analytics. In December, Teradata acquired RainStor ,

575-713: The term. Enterprise systems are built on software platforms, such as SAP's NetWeaver and Oracle's Fusion , and databases. From a hardware perspective, enterprise systems are the servers, storage and associated software that large businesses use as the foundation for their IT infrastructure . These systems are designed to manage large volumes of critical data and thus are typically designed to provide high levels of transaction performance and data security. The "seemingly boundless complexity" of enterprise systems has been criticised, and arguments maintained for deploying discrete systems for specific business tasks. Cynthia Rettig, an American businesswoman, has argued that "the concept of

600-462: Was founded in 2012 by Mike Merritt-Holmes, Pinal Gandhi and Tim Seears and formed partnerships with companies including Hortonworks , MapR , WANdisco , Databricks , Amazon Web Services , Intel and Elasticsearch . In June 2014, Big Data Partnership announced Series A funding led by Beringea LLP, an international venture capital firm with offices in London and Detroit. In 2016, Big Data Partnership

625-708: Was sold to private equity firm Marlin Equity Partners for about $ 90 million with Aprimo under CEO John Stammen moving its headquarters to Chicago. while absorbing Revenew Inc. that Marlin had also bought. Teradata acquired Big Data Partnership , a service company based in the UK, on July 21, 2016. In July 2017, Teradata acquired StackIQ, maker of the Stacki cluster manager software. Teradata offers three primary services to its customers: cloud and hardware-based data warehousing, business analytics, and consulting services. In September 2016,

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