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Tuesday, Oct. 14
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Beyond Intelligence: ‘Exploring a New Territory Entirely’ (With three pieces of art. Use lead on main page) Computerworld Honors Enterprise Intelligence Award Winners (w/art) The Next Major Release … Teradata 13.0! SAS and Teradata: Bringing Competitive Advantages to Your Business Near You Question of the Day  Beyond Intelligence: ‘Exploring a New Territory Entirely’  With Monday’s Opening General Session, PARTNERS 2008 officially began!
The session kicked off at 9 a.m. with “Anna Litic,” reporting live for PARTNERS News Network who set the stage interviewing attendees about their expectations for this year’s PARTNERS conference. Then President of the PARTNERS Steering Committee, Tobianna Zappe, took over the proceedings with a fantastic welcome for all PARTNERS attendees. “‘Beyond Intelligence’ is more than just rethinking how we do what we do – it’s exploring a new territory entirely. It’s moving from Collecting intelligence … to Collective intelligence … opening it up to all as a collective unit” said Zappe. Zappe has worked with Teradata systems since 1999. A manager at Nationwide, Zappe’s responsibilities include managing the database administrators, data modelers, and the Master Data Management IT team. A brief video illustrated how Nationwide is using Teradata to move beyond intelligence, pushing insight from detailed data into their front lines, enabling proactive and beneficial interactions with customers. Next, Mike Koehler, President and Chief Executive Officer of Teradata, took the stage and built on this year’s PARTNERS’ theme, saying, “To Teradata, ‘Beyond Intelligence’ means Active Enterprise Intelligence (AEI). This is core to Teradata, and core to helping customers gain competitive advantage.  What’s more, Koehler said, “With our new platform family strategy, we are taking our leading Teradata technology and consulting capabilities to the broader market, making Teradata available to everyone, everywhere. Operating from our position of strength in the market, we will provide you with the best opportunity to be successful and drive innovation.”Before heading Teradata as senior vice president in 2003, Koehler was vice president of Teradata’s global field operations, where he developed a world-class sales force and professional services organization. He began his career with NCR Corporation in 1975 and held a number of leadership positions that contributed to Teradata’s rapid growth as NCR’s data warehousing business. Koehler then introduced, Stephen Brobst, CTO, Teradata who provided attendees with a view of the trends that are driving technology and innovation for Teradata. “Teradata has delivered more innovation and more major products in the last year since spin off than ever before,” Brobst said. “This is huge.” As the chief technology officer for Teradata Corporation, Brobst is widely regarded as a leading expert in data warehousing. Prior to joining the Teradata team in October of 1999, Brobst successfully launched three start-up companies related to high-end database products and services in the data warehousing and e-business marketplaces.  The opening general session wrapped up with an enthusiastic, dynamic presentation by keynoter Dan Ariely, an expert on how people act—and why they act—in various business and economic environments. Ariely has documented what this means for business innovation, strategy, and marketing, in his New York Times best-selling book, “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions.”Sharing insight from the research that led to his book, Ariely said, “In business, we don’t force experiments. Instead we follow intuition, and if that intuition is wrong, we’re doomed. If we understand how we fail, we can offer solutions to make it better.” Additionally, Ariely — the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke, and visiting professor at MIT’s Media Lab — told his rapt audience of PARTNERS attendees that, “When we design the physical world, we understand our limitations. But when we come to the mental world, we assume we are rational. If we understand our mental limitations, think about what a wonderful world we could build.” And on that note, the 23rd annual PARTNERS conference officially kicked off an action-packed week of high-energy sessions sure to provide PARTNERS attendees plenty of opportunities for professional development, thought-sharing, and networking! back to top back to TeradataTimes.com Computerworld Honors Enterprise Intelligence Award Winners Computerworld announced yesterday winners and finalists of its inaugural Enterprise Intelligence Awards at a special PARTNERS awards ceremony. Three finalists with one winner in each of four categories were recognized at the ceremony. The awards program focuses on best practices in the use of information technology solutions built on Teradata platforms.  “Congratulations to all Teradata customers who were nominees for the coveted 2008 Enterprise Intelligence Awards,” said Ron Milton, executive vice president of Computerworld. “The twelve CIOs who judged these inaugural awards were challenged with determining only four category winners after paring nominations to twelve finalists, and that was a task in itself. The winners of these 2008 awards have demonstrated global excellence in the use of business intelligence and how it can positively impact both the organization as a whole and its business-aligned technology infrastructure.” Winners and Finalists Integrated View of the Business Winner: Discover Financial Services Finalists: FedEx Services and Freescale Semiconductor Industry Innovation Winner: Medco Health Solutions, Inc. Finalists: GE Rail Services and RBC Financial Group Excellence in BI and Analytics Winner: eBay, Inc. Finalists: Medco Health Solutions, Inc. and Verizon Wireless Customer Intelligence and Management Winner: Hallmark Cards, Inc. Finalists: Cisco Systems and Norfolk Southern Corporation Judges evaluated and ranked submissions in each category based on a number of criteria, including: • Strategic importance to the business • Positive impact on the business/ organization units • Substantial customer impact (i.e. service, retention, acquisition, innovation) • Provides a strategic advantage to the business/organization while anticipating and accommodating the deployment of future enterprise intelligence initiatives • Financial return and measurable payback (returns on investment, assets, resources) through the creation of revenue opportunities or cost savings • Addresses challenges of data management, information access, and analysis, and provides a foundation for better business decisions Visit www.enterpriseintelligenceawards.com for more information about the awards. Submissions for the 2009 awards will be open starting in the summer of 2009. back to top back to TeradataTimes.com The Next Major Release … Teradata 13.0! Announcing…Teradata 13.0, the next major release of the Teradata Database and the associated Teradata Tools and Utilities products! Teradata 13.0 opens data warehousing to new application areas to add even more value to organizations seeking unmatched performance, ease-of-use, self-managing automation and improved total-cost-of-ownership. This major release offers exciting, new capabilities including: • Teradata Virtual Storage—this allows the mixture of different sizes and types of disk drives. It also enhances multi-temperature data warehousing by adding automatic data temperature sensitive placement on the disk drives to the mixed workload management tools already used for multi-temperature implementations • Geospatial analysis—this enables location-aware business intelligence (BI) by adding the capability to store and operate on geospatial data • Teradata Multi-System Manager and Teradata Viewpoint—enables the data warehouse itself to become an active participant in the organization’s intelligent use of data. Existing capabilities have also been enhanced, including Teradata Active System Management (TASM) improvements that continue to advance Teradata’s mixed workload management. To learn more about Teradata 13.0’s new capabilities and enhanced existing capabilities, consider adding these sessions to your PARTNERS plans: • Teradata 13.0 Technology (Part 1), presented by Todd Walter, CTO, Teradata, today, 8 - 9 a.m., (Part 2) from 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. (Mandalay Bay Ballrooms EFGH) • Teradata Virtual Storage System: Another Big Change in Teradata for Rel. 13, presented by John Catozzi, Senior Teradata Architect, today, 11 a.m. - noon (Breakers ABGH) • Teradata Spatial, presented by Michael Watzke, Architect, Teradata, Thursday, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. (Breakers CDIJ) Attendees can also learn more about Teradata 13.0 in the Expo Hall with a visit to the Teradata Database station in the Teradata Corporation Booth (#307) where experts will be available to answers questions and provide demonstrations of geospatial capabilities. back to top back to TeradataTimes.com SAS and Teradata: Bringing Competitive Advantages to Your Business Near You A year ago, SAS and Teradata established a strategic partnership to empower customers with the best of both companies’ core strengths. Kicked off with a guest appearance from SAS CEO Jim Goodnight on stage with Mike Koehler at last year’s PARTNERS, the move drew kudos from attendees and attention from media and global customers alike. Twelve months later, what have the two companies accomplished? Here’s a quick snapshot: 1. In March, the two companies delivered the benefits of in-database analytics to customers ahead of schedule. How? With the new SAS® Scoring Accelerator for Teradata. Now customers can translate scoring models created in SAS Enterprise Miner™ into Teradata-specific functions to be executed directly within the Teradata environment. 2. Also in March, SAS and Teradata introduced the first phase of bundling select SAS software within Teradata environments. As the first business intelligence and analytics vendor to do this with Teradata, SAS took an important step toward giving customers a flexible, powerful means for implementing predictive analytics and information analysis in one location. 3. To date, the SAS and Teradata Center of Excellence has participated in more than 170 global customer engagements spanning all vertical markets. As a result of positive feedback, the companies increased global staffing to meet growing demand for consulting services and architecture assessment workshops. “We achieved dramatic results from joint SAS and Teradata integration, including reduced analytic model runtimes,” says Aldo Mancini, founder of INTELeffect and former Discover Financial Services Vice President. “In one case, we cut the time down from a week to 36 minutes, and achieved a tenfold increase in analytic output. The partnership has positioned Discover Financial Services to double analytic output throughout 2008, and treat SAS and Teradata as a single managed environment.” Now, SAS and Teradata unveil the second phase of their strategic partnership. Called SAS and Teradata Advantage, this program consists of tightly integrated product offerings and services to help companies quickly and effectively leverage SAS’ market-leading software for business and analytic intelligence with Teradata’s enterprise data warehouse. The SAS and Teradata Advantage program provides customers with competitively priced technology bundles optimized for their particular industry or focus area. These bundles also include packaged service offerings, called QuickStarts, to get customers up and running quickly. This powerful combination gives decision makers the integrated resources needed to efficiently, and accurately, solve critical business problems. The SAS and Teradata Advantage Program includes the following, some of which will be available late fourth quarter 2008 and others in early 2009: • Optimization Services Advantage Program • Analytic Advantage Program • Enterprise Intelligence Advantage Program • Anti-Money Laundering Advantage Program • Credit Risk Advantage Program Additional offerings in key verticals will be available in the first half of 2009, with more to come as the program continues to build momentum. “All of these offerings leverage our integrated in-database R&D efforts so that customers can quickly demonstrate business value with SAS and Teradata,” said Scott VanValkenburgh, SAS Director of Technology Alliances. “No other partnership can deliver this much value and opportunity to help businesses succeed.” To learn more about the offerings highlighted above, as well as the partnership in general, visit SAS Booth #301 or Teradata Booth #307 . back to top back to TeradataTimes.com |
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