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Teradata and Ab Initio

Alliance Solutions

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

These best of breedtechnologies useparallelism to manageenormous data flowswith speed, flexibility

and graphical appeal.

Here’s 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 what’s happening right now.

Here’s 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

don’t 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 paral-

lelism 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 entiresystem to benefit 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 efficiency. An integrated

Teradata/Ab Initio solution delivers the best

of each environment, with end-to-end

parallel performance on virtually any 

hardware platform, including NCR’s

WorldMark Servers.

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Teradata and Ab Initio

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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.

With Ab Initio creating currents of dataand 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 informationcontent

• Load data continuously that has been

transformed, cleansed, and checked

into the data warehouse

• Integrate data marts with the data

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 connectthem with arrows. By encapsulating complex

logic, even custom and legacy codes, into

“macro” components, you can build difficult

programs with ease. The Co>Operating

System executes your application by creating

and managing the processes and data flows

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 Initio’s 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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