Teradata and Ab Initio

Heres the problem: The volume of data available to your business is enormous and growing, but the time available to make decisions based on that data is small and shrinking. To get the complete picture of how your business is doing, you need to bring together data from e-commerce servers, brick and mortar point-of-sale systems, ERP systems, legacy operational systems, and third-party data providers. But data sources do not stand still. You need current information not monthly or even weekly reports to make good decisions. You need to know whats happening right now. Heres the remedy: a Teradata solution, driven by data warehousing and supported by Ab Initio software for enabling data transfers. Parallelism When you need to process large amounts of data in small amounts of time and when dont you? parallelism is the key. Parallelism enables practically unlimited numbers of server processors to work together on the same job. Sharing work shrinks the time it takes to process data and give you the results you need. The Teradata analytical solution uses parallelism extensively and effectively, processing queries on loaded data at lightening speed. Having a way to load the data at a comparable speed is a critical component of the solution. Ab Initio performs. The Ab Initio Co>Operating System depends on parallelism to connect (i.e., cooperate with) diverse databases. It extracts, transforms and loads data to and from Teradata and other data sources. Since both Teradata and the Co>Operating System are each highly scalable, and their integration is also highly scalable, the combination of Teradata and the Co>Operating System enables an entire system to benet from the performance advantages of parallelism. A system can only be as fast as its slowest part a system that only partially employs parallelism inevitably suffers from serial bottlenecks that reduce performance and efciency. An integrated Teradata/Ab Initio solution delivers the best of each environment, with end-to-end parallel performance on virtually any hardware platform, including NCRs WorldMark Servers.

These best of breed technologies use parallelism to manage enormous data flows with speed, flexibility and graphical appeal.

Teradata and Ab Initio in a Snapshot:

For more than 16 years, Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (www.ncr.com), has delivered analytical solutions powered by data warehousing. By skillfully combining parallel database technology, powerful hardware, experienced consultants, and excellent industry tools and applications, Teradata enables customers to make better decisions based on panoramic business insights. Ab Initio Software Corporation, headquartered in Lexington, MA, develops software solutions that process vast amounts of data (well into the terabyte range) in a timely fashion by employing many (often hundreds) of server processors in parallel. Major corporations worldwide use Ab Initio software in mission critical, enterprise-wide, data processing systems. Together, Teradata and Ab Initio deliver: End-to-end solutions for integrating and processing data throughout the enterprise Software that is flexible, efficient, and robust, with unlimited scalability Professional and highly responsive support

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Teradata and Ab Initio

With Ab Initio creating currents of data and data warehousing driving the Teradata solution, you get a complete picture of your business and its customers. Their combined strength lets you: Extract data from multiple source systems, including legacy applications and relational database management systems Transform data to import data from multiple, incompatible sources Check the integrity of referential data to ensure clean and valid information content Load data continuously that has been transformed, cleansed, and checked into the data warehouse Integrate data marts with the data warehouse

The application shown here integrates data from web server logs with account information from a legacy system to prepare data for loading into a Teradata Warehouse.

The Teradata solution joins with the entire Ab Initio suite to let you construct intricate, working applications simply and quickly. In fact, all you need to do is drag and drop components onto a canvas, then connect them with arrows. By encapsulating complex logic, even custom and legacy codes, into macro components, you can build difcult programs with ease. The Co>Operating System executes your application by creating and managing the processes and data ows that the components and arrows represent. To learn more about the value of Teradata and Ab Initio, contact your local Teradata representative or visit us at our web site at www.teradata.com.

Ab Initios ability to handle huge data volumes using either real-time or batch data acquisition

and transformation with native inter-faces to the Teradata RDBMS is an essential capability for the deployment of Teradata solutions.

Stephen Brobst, Chief Technology Officer, Teradata Solutions Division

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