Teradata Announces Analytics Platform to Improve Manufacturing Performance Management

Teradata Announces Analytics Platform to Improve Manufacturing Performance
Management
Runs on Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family to improve performance and
intelligently reduce manufacturing operations costs

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the
world's largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise
analytics, today announced the introduction of the new Teradata Manufacturing
Analytics Platform. The scalable platform handles the management and storage
of measurement and traceability data in support of manufacturing performance
using in-database analytics and visual images. It integrates supply chain and
manufacturing data to improve operational efficiency and manufacturing
performance.

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"We're focusing on the improvement of supply chain visibility and management,
operational metrics and manufacturing performance, including quality and shop
floor analytics, to help reduce costs and improve gross margins at our
customers," said Paul Dennies, program director for high technology
manufacturing for global industry solutions at Teradata Corporation. "This
includes business-specific analytics such as Predictive Asset Management,
Predictive Business Intelligence and Green House Gas Emissions Management."

The first application for this platform is in semiconductor manufacturing
where improving yield, logistics and scrap rates are an important aspect to
profitable manufacturing.

"Decisions here are time-critical and must be driven by event triggers and the
latest data, so in-database analytics is key. Today, all too often, engineers
in the problem-solving process spend 80 percent of their time searching for
data and converting it to something they can act upon. That leaves 20 percent
of their time for making decisions and taking corrective actions," said
Dennies.

The roadmap includes applications for supplier risk management, manufacturing
performance analytics and operational analytics.

The Teradata Manufacturing Analytics Platform provides an Active Enterprise
Intelligence(TM) environment enabling strategic and operational business
intelligence, reducing decision latencies from the data source to the end
users and unburdening the current business intelligence infrastructure. It is
well-suited for high data volume environments, such as the high technology,
semiconductor, aerospace, medical equipment and automotive industries. Moving
the management of data from a company's business intelligence infrastructure
into its enterprise data warehouse makes access to up-to-date test data on
demand and linear scalability of data volume faster and easier. The Teradata
Manufacturing Analytics Platform enhances the information in a company's
current MES system providing integration and analytics with other test data to
improve operational efficiency.

The Manufacturing Analytics Platform runs on the Teradata Purpose-Built
Platform Family which takes advantage of the power of the Teradata Database
analytical engine. The data warehouse platform is designed for easy migration
from one purpose-built warehouse or appliance to another without changing data
models, underlying structures or extract, transform and load tools.

About Teradata
Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) is the world's largest company solely focused
on raising intelligence through data warehousing, data warehouse appliances,
consulting services and enterprise analytics. Teradata is in more than 60
countries and on the web at www.teradata.com

Teradata is a trademark or registered trademark of Teradata Corporation in the
United States and other countries.

SOURCE Teradata Corporation

D'Anne Hotchkiss, Teradata Corporation, +1-609-433-1715,
D'Anne.Hotchkiss@teradata.com