Data Warehouse Solution with Business-Intelligence

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For Release on February 7, 2005

Teradata Ships Data Warehouse Solution with Breakthrough Business-Intelligence Capability

AUCKLAND, New Zealand – Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), announced the shipment of Teradata® Warehouse 8.0, a powerful data warehousing solution providing businesses with breakthrough business intelligence to solve the problems of how to increase revenue, reduce expenses and identify new growth opportunities. Teradata is the first to deliver a single data warehouse that supports business intelligence capability from both traditional analytical applications and new operational analytical applications.

“The stronger, more robust Teradata data warehouse enables customers to gain a competitive edge with a new level of business intelligence,” said Julian Beavis, Teradata’s vice president for India, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. “In addition to business-intelligence capability, we continue to enhance the warehouse suite to make it even easier for businesses to integrate Teradata into their overall enterprise.”

“Teradata Warehouse 8.0 shows good performance improvement and was easy to integrate into our corporate Microsoft Windows Active Directory services infrastructure using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Together with Teradata’s BEA WebLogic integration, this will enable us to implement a secure, high-performance operational CRM system using our Teradata data warehouse,” said Andrus Maigre, database administrator,
Elion Enterprises AS, the largest provider of telecommunication and information technology services in Estonia.

As a part of its data warehouse solution, Teradata partners with leading software vendors to serve its customers. The following partners have tested and validated that their software is compatible with Teradata Warehouse 8.0: Ab Initio, Ambeo, Ascential, Atanasoft, BEZ, Business Objects, Cognos, DecisionPoint Software, ETI, GoldenGate, Hyperion, Informatica, KXEN, MicroStrategy, Prescient, SAS, Siebel Systems and Ward Analytics.

“This is the tenth consecutive year that MicroStrategy has been certified on Teradata. MicroStrategy’s integrated business monitoring, reporting and analysis capabilities are used everyday by hundreds of demanding Teradata customers worldwide. The availability, manageability and performance advances in Teradata 8.0 will enable our joint customers to scale their applications to meet their rapidly growing business intelligence needs,” said Sanju Bansal, chief operating officer, MicroStrategy.

“Teradata continues to innovate with their latest release, furthering our shared vision of active data warehousing to deliver timely and relevant insights to everyone across the enterprise,” said Paul Rodwick, vice president, product marketing, Siebel Business Analytics. “With Siebel’s industry-specific analytic applications and enterprise business intelligence platform optimised for Teradata Warehouse 8.0, our joint customers will benefit from even higher levels of performance and scalability to gain real-time insight for effective decision making.”

About Teradata Division

Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), is the global technology leader in enterprise data warehousing, analytic applications and data warehousing services. Organisations around the world rely on the power of Teradata’s award-winning solutions (www.teradata.com) to get a single, integrated view of their business to enhance decision-making, customer relationships and profitability.

About NCR Corporation

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a leading global technology company helping businesses build stronger relationships with their customers. NCR’s ATMs, retail systems, Teradata® data warehouses and IT services provide Relationship Technology™ solutions that maximise the value of customer interactions and help organisations create a stronger competitive position. Based in Dayton, Ohio, NCR (www.ncr.com) employs approximately 28,500 people worldwide.

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