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Addressing Slowly Changing Dimensions with Teradata v13

December 7, 2011 by Venkata Bodapati
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Best Practices, period datatype, SLD, Slowly Changing Dims, Teradata, v13 [read more]

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Teradata's "Multiple paths to social media"

November 15, 2011 by Cliff Figallo
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Dan Graham, General Manager Enterprise Systems and Teradata Labs, happened to be at the conference so we sat down in the hallway where I asked him about Teradata's approach to text analytics and its most important application - socially generated content. [read more]

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USAF Prevents Insomnia with Geospatial

October 31, 2011 by Paul Barsch
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Insomnia’s not the norm for United States Air Force (USAF) general officers and other government officials. That’s because with geospatial capabilities the USAF knows where every aircraft, piece of equipment and part is located and where it’s been—anywhere in the world. [read more]

In Bringing Gold to Customers, Teradata Earns a Platinum

October 18, 2011 by Darryl McDonald
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"At one time, companies viewed data as a cost – a by-product of their activities that then had to be stored and managed. Today, data analytics is firmly established as the silver lining for companies seeking competitive advantage. Consider how these gaming industry leaders have gained from bringing together information from across their enterprises." [read more]

Big Data: We Have the Technology, but Not the Vision

October 14, 2011 by Joe McKendrick
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"That’s the view of Todd Walter, CTO of Teradata and data analytics visionary. I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Walter at last week’s Teradata Partners conference in San Diego, who talked about the sensor explosion occurring underneath our feet, as well as emerging analytics-driven organizations." [read more]

PARTNERS 2011 - what a great success!

October 13, 2011 by Darryl McDonald
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"A vast army of analytic experts are returning to their organizations better able to put their data to work for real value. By doing so, they create data equity – equity that has measurable and quantifiable value to their companies. They are now empowered to turn the dead data lying around their organization into living data - making it useful and relevant to everyone." [read more]

Oracle Open World 2011 – Initial Thoughts

October 10, 2011 by Esteban Kolsky
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"There is so much more work to do understanding and diving behind the announcements and getting those two market swaths to a better light. I Would not want to simply repeat what was said. Look for some interesting analysis to start coming out next week but not from me yet — it will take me a few more weeks (including a visit to Redwood Shores I was promised)." [read more]

Oracle Unveils the BI Appliance Called Exalytics

October 3, 2011 by David Menninger
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"Vendors themselves benefit from appliance packaging and configuration. Testing a single configuration (or a limited number of configurations) requires much less effort than testing all the various combinations of hardware, operating systems, application servers and different version of software products." [read more]

Update on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud

September 3, 2011 by James Taylor
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"Our Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research is moving forward. We announced this multi-stage, multi-client project a week ago and are busy developing the survey (plan is to launch this mid-September) and the initial position paper. I’ve had some great interviews with our sponsors (Clario Analytics, FICO, Opera Solutions, Predixion Software, SAS, Teradata, and Toovio) and I think we are going to get some really interesting results." [read more]

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Predictive Analytics in the Cloud Research on SmartData Collective

August 31, 2011 by James Taylor
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"SmartData Collective and Decision Management Solutions are partnering to bring some exciting new research to the SmartData Collective community. A week ago we announced a multi-stage, multi-client project to study Predictive Analytics in the Cloud." [read more]

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We're Very Pleased to Announce

April 6, 2011 by Robin Carey
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We’re very pleased to announce today a new partnership with IIA, the International Institute for Analytics, to bring even smarter smarts to Smart Data Collective.  Many of our top advisers and bloggers, folks like James Taylor and Jill Dyche, are already involved with IIA, and we’re pleased to be able to share even more great... [read more]

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Walled Gardens and the Value of Innovation: Questions for Bill Franks

March 15, 2011 by Robin Carey
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Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer at Teradata

Two interesting articles of note in the current Harvard Business Review, one, an interview with John (“I’m not Meg Whitman”) Donahoe, the new CEO of eBay, and a fascinating piece about creating a “culture of experimentation” coincide perfectly with my recent talk with Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer at Teradata.   ... [read more]

Big data, big acquisition, still some big questions

March 3, 2011 by James Taylor
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Teradata announced its intent to acquire Aster Data today. Obviously this is big news in analytics-land and I participated in a call where the two companies gave some quick information. The driver for the acquisition seems to be an increasing focus on generally unstructured and untapped data and expanding the Teradata portfolio into this... [read more]

Reaction Times Do Make a Difference

December 17, 2010 by Mike Westholder
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Even though the winter solstice is days away for the Northern Hemisphere, many of us have already been hit hard by unseasonably wintry weather on both sides of the Atlantic. And anyone who has tried to drive in it knows that reaction times can be the critical difference between stopping before an intersection, half-way through it, or in... [read more]

The Next Big Idea: The Idea Exchange

October 12, 2010 by Darryl McDonald
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I’m getting all jazzed thinking about the ideaExchange and the great ideas that people have posted about how organizations can innovate and differentiate, leveraging the power of data and analytics.   It will be really cool to stand on that stage at PARTNERS and reveal the winning submission and announce the names of the “big... [read more]

Getting your head around the clouds and SaaS

May 6, 2010 by Mike Westholder
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Cloud computing is all the rage in IT and business circles these days. Many industry analysts and publications are touting it as the next big thing in technology. But for some, the concept and implementation options are cloudy at best. What it is? Is it right for my organization? Which approach should I take? The Q1 issue of Teradata... [read more]