Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Upgrades Teradata Intelligence System

SYDNEY, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the world's largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics, announced today that Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (ASX: API), a leading Australian beauty and health product company, has upgraded its Teradata warehouse to a multi-platform system with the addition of a Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance to provide added visibility into its enterprise-wide sales and inventory processing details.

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API is one of Australia's leading wholesale distributors of pharmaceutical and over-the-counter products to more than 4000 pharmacies across Australia and provides many of these pharmacies with retail services, marketing programs and business advisory services. API owns and operates the Priceline retail store brand, a leading health and beauty brand in Australia. API also provides services under the Soul Pattinson Chemist and Pharmacist Advice banners.

API's Pharmacy Division has deployed the new Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance to accommodate its continued business growth. The addition is part of an enterprise-wide upgrade to its data warehouse capability and is the result of growing internal demand for Teradata system access and support. At API, Teradata's powerful database provides conventional data warehousing decision-support for strategic planning while also delivering actionable intelligence to front-line operations for near-real time decision making.

Notably, the Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance enables API to bring multi-platform user capabilities to API's executives as well as front-line operations teams.  The use of business intelligence software has become more pervasive throughout the Pharmacy Division as the management has seen the value it can bring to all areas of the business.

"This system upgrade, including the Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance, has increased our ability to make better, timelier decisions while also providing us the opportunity to integrate other business units' data into the enterprise warehouse to accommodate future information requirements," said Brett Hart, manager of finance and business reporting, Pharmacy Division. "By moving to a new platform now and redeploying our Teradata Data Mart Appliance, we expect to see significant savings of as much as $400K over the next three years."

According to API, the new Data Warehouse Appliance provides as much as 10X improvement on query performance, 6X more processing power, and doubles the capacity of the previous data warehouse environment to two terabytes (TB).  An additional 4.7TB capacity on demand is available, totalling 6.7TB which will accommodate growth over the next few years.

Previously, API used a Teradata Data Mart Appliance 550P and this system has been redeployed as a test and development platform.  

"API's upgrade is a great example of how customers start with a Teradata platform – in this case the Data Mart Appliance – and as their business grows, seamlessly upgrade to the next level data warehouse appliance as they start to reap clear benefits and cost savings," said Noel Pettitt, vice president of Teradata for Australia and New Zealand.  "With the Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family, customers can leverage the power of Teradata while trusting that our best in class infrastructure will support them as their business needs grow."

About API

Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (ASX: API) has developed into one of Australia's leading beauty and health companies. API was founded in 1910 and became one of Australia's leading pharmaceutical distributors. Changes within the pharmacy industry propelled API to focus on the needs of consumers and patients thereby developing a retail footprint and retail services that provide growth opportunities for the company today.  API has since become one of the leading service providers to the pharmacy industry in Australia and today has a relationship with more than 4000 independent pharmacies. The services include wholesale product delivery, retail services, marketing programs and business advisory services. API also owns and operates the Priceline retail store brand that is a leading health and beauty brand in Australia. The company has product manufacturing capabilities and it is a niche player in over-the-counter pharmaceuticals and toiletries, which supply the Australian and New Zealand markets.

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