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Teradata Delivers Breakthrough Business Analytics for SAP® Users

New solution offers analytic alternative, while reducing IT complexity and cost

London, UK 29 January 2014 – Available today, the Teradata Analytics for SAP® software and services solution offers SAP® users best-in-class analytics capabilities and unprecedented business insight. The Teradata Analytics for SAP solution provides unique capabilities wrapped in a low cost and high performance bundle.

Designed by Teradata, (NYSE: TDC), the leading analytic data platforms, applications and services company, this new solution creates actionable insights by delivering analytics that combine SAP data with operational and big data. Teradata Analytics for SAP enables complete, more comprehensive and accurate business decisions.

“It makes perfect sense to move SAP system data to Teradata and integrate it with big data and business data,” said Neil Raden, chief executive officer and principal analyst, Hired Brains Research. “By doing so, SAP customers will enjoy a vastly more high-performing, simplified and useful system. They will also be served by a large professional services organisation from Teradata focused on big data analytics, data warehousing and business intelligence.”

Teradata allows SAP application users to easily combine data from multiple SAP systems and non-SAP systems, within the Teradata Database. The integrated data can then be exposed to over 1,000 in-database analytic functions, available from Teradata and its partners. The resulting analytics equips SAP application users to meet the unrelenting demand for intelligence.

“The integration of SAP system’s data into the Teradata Database will enable our customers to leverage high-value, predictive analytics and see their entire organisation in a new way and guide it forward,” said Scott Gnau, president, Teradata Labs. “As a result, they will be able to move from operational reporting to creating a vision for the future. Teradata Analytics for SAP can be rapidly deployed, easily maintained and also reduces IT complexity and cost.”

The Teradata Analytics for SAP solution is ready to run and includes enterprise architecture, ELT scripts and data models. Teradata Analytics for SAP offers 150 dashboards and standardised business reports in 17 key categories, from financial accounting to human resources. In addition, it is an open solution that empowers users to build their own custom reports, which run directly against the integrated data within the data warehouse without dependency on IT.

Some of the Teradata Analytics for SAP solution’s benefits include:

Integrated View – Business users have a full, enterprise view of their business with integrated data. This enables analysts to answer complex business questions and improve decisions, making accuracy with higher-quality detailed data.

Performance –Teradata’s solution enables more timely what-if analysis, scenario modeling and forecast comparisons, by eliminating multi-hour or multi-day wait times for reporting and analysis.

Rapid Deployment – The out-of-the-box solution provides quicker implementation than traditional business intelligence projects, saving between six to nine months of work.

Flexible and Extendable – The open design of Teradata Analytics for SAP allows businesses to add additional data sources to meet the growing requirements of their business analytics. In addition to data, customers can take an incremental approach to implementation of new business modules, which can be added in any order, at any time. Teradata Analytics for SAP is an agnostic business intelligence tool, enabling customers to continue working with their favorite tools.

Easy to Manage – Teradata Analytics for SAP includes everything the customer needs to extract, process and analyse data. The solution is easy to maintain, with minimal specialist expertise required and is supported by error handling and a control framework.

Total Cost of Ownership –rapid implementation, less reliance on IT support and better performance provide a lower cost of ownership. Costs are kept under control, providing a quicker return on investment.

Teradata Professional Services SAP Centre of Excellence provides consulting services that support Teradata Analytics for SAP deployments. The experienced consultants understand SAP environments and help customers get the most out of this solution - and ultimately their data.

Teradata Analytics for SAP is currently available worldwide and compatible with Teradata Database 13.10 and later versions.

About Teradata

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), a global leader in analytic data platforms, marketing and analytic applications and consulting services, helps organisations become more competitive by increasing the value of their data and customer relationships. Visit teradata.com for details.

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