The Home Depot Selects Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse

Leading global retailer to take a centralized, enterprise approach to business
intelligence

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the
world's largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise
analytics, announced today that The Home Depot®, the world's largest home
improvement retailer, has selected the Teradata Active Enterprise Data
Warehouse to support its complex and growing enterprise information
requirements.

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In moving to the Teradata solution, The Home Depot will consolidate multiple
decision support systems into one centralized Enterprise Data Warehouse, which
will reduce the complexity of their current IT environment, improve
efficiencies, and improve business insight by enabling faster decision-making.
The new intelligence platform will enable detailed analysis of enterprise
data pertaining to sales, inventory, cost and merchandise management.

"Our IT improvements are dedicated to creating more time for our associates to
focus on customer-facing activities, and the implementation of Teradata's
solution will benefit our entire organization," said Matt Carey, executive
vice president and chief information officer, The Home Depot. "Teradata's
value proposition and leadership in data warehousing platforms, software and
services were critical in our decision to select them as our partner. They
have always been a champion of an integrated, centralized approach, and we
look forward to seeing the efficiency gains that are sure to follow."

"We are deeply gratified to have The Home Depot join the global Teradata
customer community," said Rocky Blanton, president, Americas region, Teradata
Corporation. "The selection of Teradata by yet another great retail market
leader represents the confidence that the most forward-thinking CIOs have
placed in the solutions we take to market across the world."

About The Home Depot
The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer,
with 2,242 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces, Mexico and China. In
fiscal 2008, The Home Depot had sales of $71.3 billion and earnings from
continuing operations of $2.3 billion. The Company employs more than 300,000
associates. The Home Depot's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard &
Poor's 500 index.

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.

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mike.osullivan@teradata.com