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(Re)vitalize!
Consider an ongoing strategy to maintain the ideal data warehouse. 
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A different game (The Economist)
A special report on managing information - Information is transforming traditional businesses.
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A Fort Knox for Data - Baseline

The information-systems conundrum facing the government - lack of data standards, outdated technology, and information that can't be shared or analyzed - is the same one many companies have tackled.  But corportations don't have to deal with public-policy debates or the enormous scale of the federal government.  This Baseline article reprint addresses the challenges facing the federal government in its goal of sharing data electronically.

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Above and Beyond
To survive in a challenging and complex global economy, service providers need to do more than perform minimally contracted functions; they need to deliver added value through process improvement and service innovation. Indeed, going above and beyond the call of duty is nothing new to Teradata Professional Services, and one of its offerings typifies this: Teradata Managed Services.
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Activating the Call Center - Teradata Magazine
Help your company simultaneously improve marketing productivity and customer satisfaction.
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Activating the data warehouse - Teradata Magazine
Look before you leap-Activating the data warehouse requires careful consideration. 
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Advanced Analytics: Teradata's CTO on Breakthrough Insight
Stephen Brobst makes a case for open access to data, simpler analytic tools and new forms of social network analysis. 
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Advanced Analytics: What Every Enterprise Should Know - Mike Rote

This article is an interview with Mike Rote, Director and Co-Founder of Teradata's Data Mining Lab.  It discusses how advanced analytics dig deep into data and provide insight and interpretation, helping organizations find answers to previously impossible questions. This predictive tool helps users identify trends and likely behaviors, and plan accordingly.

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After the Acquisition, You Might Want to Stick with Aprimo
Teradata's announcement to acquire market leader Aprimo is great news for Teradata's current and future customers, but bad news for competitors like Eloqua and Marketo.
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All in a day's work - Teradata Magazine
Teradata partners with Microsoft to provide business intelligence for the masses. 
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An intelligent partnership - Teradata Magazine
Microsoft and Teradata partner to give users better analysis and reporting tools.  
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ARC - Prospecting for Greater Insight
ARC turns travel industry data into pure gold. 
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At the core of the Teradata platform - Teradata Magazine
New dual-core processor technology helps activate data warehousing.
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Bank of America cuts AML transaction processing time by ten hours

Bank of America has cut its processing time for anti-money laundering by ten hours using in-database analytics.

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Beating Fraud Is The Bottom Line
New methodologies and technologies are helping carriers fight fraud and save money.
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Being Green - It's Easier Than You May Think
Examine some ways your company can apply a recycling motto to better your organization, your bottom line and, ultimately, our world.
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Best practices in active loading - Teradata Magazine
Teradata Magazine Online:Real-time data loading tips and techniques. 
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Best's Review - Up and Coming

Next-generation claims analytics will offer property/casualty carriers a competitive edge.

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Beyond Internet Banking: Wells Fargo Q&A - Teradata Magazine

Using the latest technology to enhance the customer experience is a hallmark of Wells Fargo & Co. Opening the resources of the data warehouse to public use is a bold new step on a familiar path for this innovative financial services provider.

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Big Box Teradata Takes an Outside-the-Box Approach to BI and DW
The Teradata of today has an unconventional take on database appliances, in-database analytics, DW virtualization, and data quality, company officials claim. 
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Blaze ahead for better results - Teradata Magazine
Front-running companies make use of active load architectures. 
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Bridge the Gap - Data Services and Active Enterprise Intelligence
Data Services can provide a critical link in implementing an Active Enterprise Intelligence environment.
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Building a Better Supply Chain - Teradata Magazine

The overarching theme around supply chain management is the need for flexibility and adaptability for profitability. With proper analytics, companies can use their demand-driven supply networks to focus on the categories that contribute most to business objectives while also increasing efficiency and consumer loyalty.

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Bursting at the Seams: Your Data Warehouse Must Expand to Accomodate Growth
To accommodate its goals, an organization must have a data warehouse that is flexible and adaptable—along with a plan for expanding it to meet growing needs.
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Business analytics in an active world
Strategic and operational intelligence combine to form the business DNA.
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Business Analytics: Q&A With Teradata's CTO Stephen Brobst
To gain broader access to truly valuable insight, Brobst says we have to move away from walled-off warehouses and programming-driven analysis tools.
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Cache Back: Enterprise Data Warehouse Helps Drive Further Innovation at Discover
One of the world's leading credit card issuers and a pioneer of cash rewards, Discover understands firsthand the benefits of developing a pioneering corporate culture.
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Capture the power of IP data
As telecommunications firms and Internet service providers worldwide retain data under a new directive, they should look to find additional business benefits. 
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Certified Success
IT certification experiences gains amid economic and global change. 
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Change the Web channel
The growing importance of the Internet requires an Active Enterprise Intelligence approach.
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Circle of Friends - Social Network Analysis
Social network analysis helps telcos better understand customers.
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Composite applications and the Teradata EDW - Teradata Magazine
Extend the capabilities of your enterprise data warehouse with supporting applications.
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Critical Agility: Operational BI Generates Faster and Smarter Decisions
More companies are using operational business intelligence (BI) for faster, smarter decision making and improved efficiency. 
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DAOs Enable Active Integration
Integrating the active data warehouse with the front line is using Java or .NET programming to deliver analytic insights is an exciting journey into new architectures and cutting-edge software.  
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Data Focus: Teradata Looks East
Oil & Gas Middle East meets firm hoping to shake up the region’s attitude to data.
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Data, data everywhere (The Economist)
A special report on managing information - Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier-but also big headaches.
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Data-Driven Challenges Facing Film Studios, Media and Entertainment Communities

Published at the Spring Hollywood IT Summit (HITS) as part of Teradata’s sponsorship, this article explains and highlights Teradata’s expertise in the M&E industry.

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Decisioning at the Speed of Flight - Teradata Magazine

By the time former retail IT and logistics whiz Sergio Mendoza entered the picture in mid 2000, Lan Chile S.A. had already enjoyed five consecutive years of positive earnings. Through acquisitions and the formation of strategic alliances with some of the world’s most renowned airlines, it had become one of the top three airlines in Latin America. Additionally, its nearly 75-year-old brand name was among the most respected in the region.

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Detecting a Web of Fraud - Computerworld

A band of chiropractors recently bilked several insurance companies out of millions of dollars. And, Teradata customer, Highmark, used its business intelligence application to fight back.

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Did You Know? - Teradata Certified Master Q and A
Teradata Certified Master assists readers by answering their technical questions. 
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Dixons Retail Reduces Inventory by 100 Million
A fresh look at an underutilized data warehouse helps power the electronics retailer’s transformation. 
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Don’t Duplicate, Consolidate
Enterprise data integration breeds a system that avoids data mart multiplicity. 
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Down To Business: The 10 Most Strategic IT Vendors - Information Week

They're integral to the business, command a central place in the IT architecture, and are mighty hard to replace. How do these vendors compare to your list? Teradata listed among top 10 most strategic IT vendors.

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Drive to a Collaborative Solution
Sharing diagnostic data leads to savings for manufacturers and greater customer satisfaction.
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DW Improves Healthcare - Database Trends and Applications

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care developed an Enterprise Logical Data Model and saved $1 million in infrastructure costs by using Teradata instead of Oracle.

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Elephants in Your Haystack
Manufacturers take their first crack at mining point-of-sale data. 
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Eliminate Traffic Jams - Teradata Magazine
Dynamic workload management keeps your data moving. 
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End of the Hunt - NRF Stores

Dick Cabela launched Cabela's from his kitchen in 1961. Now, the "world's foremost outfitter of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear" is a $1.8 billion dollar company experiencing a 15.7% year-over-year increase in sales, and aiming for $2 billion in sales this year thanks to Teradata.

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Everything in Its Place - Teradata Virtual Storage
Teradata Virtual Storage helps maintain system balance. 
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Firing on All Cylinders
Improve efficiency and horsepower by tuning up business operations. 
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For the Common Good
Teradata/Oracle partnership helps companies develop and execute plans for corporate success. 
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From Data Mart to Data Warehouse: Integration provides a single, centralized view
The cost of data marts in utilities is much more than that spent on redundant hardware, software, and maintenance. The limitations for cross-functional insights to the business can result in lost opportunities, lower performance, and less-informed business decisions.
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From the Ground Up
Business Intelligence Roadmap offers project life cycle methodology for decision-support applications. 
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Gartner lists 3 challenges for rebounding Teradata
Report, improved financials help data warehousing firm start 2010 on a bright note
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General Ledger vs. Major Opportunity - CFO

After AT&T merged with Cingular, a Teradata Data Warehouse helped handle new challenges - including the iPhone rollout, which created 4 million users in the first 200 days.

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Getting to Know You - Chain Store Age

Hallmark shapes its marketing campaigns via its loyalty program as purchase histories are collected in a Teradata Warehouse and mined using SAS and MicroStrategy solutions.

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Governing Solutions
Financial analytic systems help simplify government management across agencies. 
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Grow with the Community: Nishi-Nippon Railroad
Faced with changing customer demographics, Nishi-Nippon Railroad Co. (Nishitetsu), the largest railway company in Japan's Kyushu region, is taking a proactive, data-centric approach to expand its business. 
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Have you driven a Ford lately? - Teradata Magazine

One hundred years ago, Henry Ford made his dream a reality. With just $28,000 in capital he, along with 11 investors, incorporated Ford Motor Company. It took a little more than a month for the company to sell its first car, and over the next 19 years, it sold 15 million Model Ts. The rest, as they say, is history.

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Illuminating the Path to Purchase

An individual’s path to purchase may be as simple as a trip to the store or as complex as a multistep process of online search and review, in-store view and possible trial, then purchase either online or in the store. Learn more about how one retailer benefits from understanding the path to purchase leveraging Teradata IWI.

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Integration at the Core: BI and Data Warehousing Combine with ERP to Boost Finance
The best way to leverage ERP data for informative, decisive analytics that can help drive corporate decisions is through an integrated business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing solution.
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It's all about the location
Managing competitive advantage through locational business intelligence.
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Keep It Together: SAP BusinessObjects and Teradata
Teradata and SAP® BusinessObjects™ have joined forces to offer a full-scale BI solution that includes components optimized to work seamlessly with one another and the Teradata system.
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Keeping Track
Query banding provides detailed workflow information. 
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Location, Location, Location: Geospatial Capability Gives a New Direction to Business Intelligence
The Teradata Database now processes location data with agility and scalability to offer a new dimension in analytics and understanding.  
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Magic Beans - Six essential steps to help drive your marketing revolution
CRM applications are powerful and integral tools to help insurers manage customer and agent relationships,attract new customers and increase customer loyalty.
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Make sure your ODS isn't odious - Teradata Magazine
Deciding when operational data stores should be merged, removed or left alone.  
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Master Data Management: Truth Behind the Hype - CIO Magazine

This article tells how you can join companies like Wachovia in preparing with Master Data Management strategies that unite and archive data from disparate sources.

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Master minds
Teradata technical lead at RBC achieves Certified Master status and gains access to the best minds and resources in the Teradata community.
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Media and Entertainment Journal Article - Your Rights to Monetization

Three key IP rights management capabilities for your multi-platform licensing strategy.

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Out of Office
Legions of remote workers create opportunities and concerns for businesses.
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Outage Management is Top Priority for Grid Optimization
The Annual Grid Analytics Report finds that the top priority for Grid Optimization is outage management. Data integration that improves visibility across systems coupled with automation, and improving the productivity of installed assets can help utility operations meet that goal.
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Peak Performance
6 best practices help maintain a healthy active data warehouse. 
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Pervasive BI completes the picture - Teradata Magazine
Pervasive BI serves everyone in an organization, and it is critical that the information supply chain seamlessly leverages an EDW. The data infrastructure must be carefully planned and implemented to supply a flow of information that serves up just in time insights.
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Poste Italiane - Special Delivery
Data insights help Poste Italiane shift its focus from products to customers, generating new revenues. 
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Putting a Premium on Loyalty - Teradata Magazine

CSS Versicherung has enjoyed a century of near-continuous growth, thanks to its focus on providing personalized service in the sometimes-impersonal health insurance industry. The company’s Swiss client base now numbers 1.2 million, and the company’s 2,000 employees process some 8 million claims every year.

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Putting the Customer First - Teradata Magazine
Frontier Communications directs workloads to reach out efficiently to subscribers.  
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Realizing Data Warehouse Return on Investment (ROI)

Fraught at the thought of ROI for IT? Get a broad overview of the hows and whys of IT ROI with this article. Includes cases, finance terminology and solid advice on how to go about this calculation.

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Realize New Value from Existing Data
Teradata delivers credible insights into data leverage and reuse opportunities for seemingly disparate business initiatives.
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Scope Matters - How to Establish the Boundaries of Master Data Management
Executives on both IT and business sides need to understand the importance of data as an asset.  
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SNS Bank - Accountability Matters
Daily data updates keep SNS Bank competitive and informed. 
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Sounds Like a Dinosaur, but It's No Small-Brainer
Teradata's talent for helping companies gain a competitive edge should fuel its growth as customers ramp up spending on business intelligence.
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Step by Step
A phased implementation of an enterprise data warehouse leads to success.
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Strike it Rich
Application tuning focuses on returning capacity to a system by concentrating on query optimization.
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Take It to the Top
Powerful systems help drive organizations toward industry leadership. 
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Taking the Sting Out of Forecasting - CIO Canada

See how Warner Home Video uses powerful business intelligence tools to build the precise forecasts that have helped them become the leader in this volatile sector.

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Taking Turns - Teradata Magazine
Mixed workload management helps traffic jobs for more efficient processing. 
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Teradata 13.0: A virtual performance
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Teradata launches customer experience tool
Teradata Customer Experience Management quantitatively measures a subscriber's entire experience -- voice, text, Internet and e-mail transactions -- with the operator's products, services, applications, and network.
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Teradata Magazine - Special Edition: Location Intelligence

Location Intelligence broadens the customer dimension by adding "where" to what is already known. This Teradata Magazine special edition has all you need to know about LI.

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Teradata Magazine - Special Edition: Location Intelligence (Electronic Version)
Location Intelligence broadens the customer dimension by adding "where" to what is already known. This Teradata Magazine special edition has all you need to know about LI.
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Teradata Value Analyzer: A Tool for Determining Customer Value and CRM Performance - Patricia Seybold Group

This report details how Teradata’s Value Analyzer helps financial and insurance related organizations understand customer value and CRM.

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The collaboration advantage
The emerging era of retailers and suppliers working closer together for improved business performance. 
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The Guide to Active - Teradata Magazine
Active enterprise intelligence helps you navigate the decision-making process in your organization.
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The Need for Speed
5 questions to expedite time to value. 
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The power of enterprise integration
Part 2: Unraveling the mystery of enterprise application integration
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The Role of Data Integration in Utility Asset Management
How utility operations can benefit from data integration and the benefits it drives for optimizing asset management and utilization.
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The Utility CIO’s Role In Smart Grid Data Management
To meet the expectations of consumers, regulators and investors, utilities must evolve their data management infrastructures beyond gathering data produced by smart grids to extracting cross-enterprise intelligence that helps business units improve performance.
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Think Smart, Sell Smart - Retailspeak
Teradata and Microsoft helping to achieve business objectives by reducing costs and making smarter strategic decisions.
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Unum: Simplicity Itself - Teradata Magazine
A new vision at Unum changes how it does business
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What's in the Package - Teradata Accelerate
Teradata Accelerate offers pre-configured, full solutions for a variety of needs.
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Where To? Industry Logical Data Models Serve as Maps to an Organization's Information.
Whether you're traveling or designing a data warehouse, maps and models can help you navigate the environment and home in on the details that could influence or affect your journey. 
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Wire Your Touchpoints for Opportunity - Teradata Magazine
Active Enterprise Intelligence enables real-time channel interactions.
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