Teradata Platform Family optimizes analytical environment for price and performance

SAN DIEGO, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) today announced that Discover Financial Services has tapped the family of Teradata appliances, in addition to its existing Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse, to support operational and non-traditional data warehousing applications.  

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As its demand for operational analytics and enterprise-wide information has grown, Discover has been able to respond by leveraging multiple elements and generations of the Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family, including the new Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance, which optimizes their analytical environment.

"Our ongoing partnership with Teradata has helped us rapidly adapt to the changing market conditions and to drive enhanced decision support capabilities into key business functions," said Glenn Schneider, chief information officer, Discover Financial Services. "By fully leveraging our data warehouse using the Teradata platforms, we are operating more efficiently while delivering faster, deeper and more reliable insights into our customers' needs."

"We greatly value our relationship with Discover," said Rocky Blanton, president of Teradata Americas. "Our teams work together very well, and we are extremely proud to support Discover in the current business environment to help them control costs and reduce expenses.  With the flexibility of our Platform Family, we truly are trusted advisors with Discover in helping them optimize their analytical environment for the best price and performance in meeting their unique business needs."

The Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family offers customers options allowing them to optimize their data warehouse environments for price and performance.  All of the Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family members provide enterprise class capability for today's toughest environments. As customers analyze their analytical needs in developing their data warehouse architecture, Teradata is the trusted advisor that presents customers a range of options, instead of a single product with a single price.

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