Union Pacific Chooses Enterprise Data Warehouse Upgrade Over Addition of a Data Warehouse Appliance

Benchmark evaluation reaffirmed rail company's enterprise data strategy

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Union Pacific Railroad has elected to upgrade and expand its Active Enterprise Data Warehouse from Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the world's largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics. Union Pacific made the choice following a benchmark study involving several data warehouse appliances from multiple vendors.

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"Based on our enterprise applications, our high number of concurrent users and the mixed workload nature of our demands, we selected the latest Active Enterprise Data Warehouse from Teradata," said Lynden L. Tennison, Union Pacific senior vice president and chief information officer. "We have had a very long-standing relationship with Teradata. This project is about improving our ability to respond to our customers and Teradata is enabling us to meet this goal by expanding our data warehouse capacity. We will now be able to continue to improve and grow our productivity initiatives, increase our business and financial trend analysis, and address our customers' growing needs while at the same time maintain our internal IT cost objectives."

Union Pacific has relied upon Teradata for its enterprise data warehouse since 1992. This latest upgrade delivers a 40 percent increase in data warehouse capacity and includes the Teradata Disaster Recovery Solution and Teradata Viewpoint, the portal-based system management solution that allows access to Teradata system performance information from virtually anywhere and allows updates to be deployed once for automatic installation to all users. The Teradata solution also includes Protegrity's Defiance DPS that enables embedded encryption and decryption within the Teradata database for enhanced data security.

Said Teradata Vice President Tony Palladino, "The new and larger Teradata Active EDW will accommodate Union Pacific's expected increase in data collected and the growing complexity of queries handled by the system. Teradata's Active EDW helps Union Pacific to deliver greater fuel efficiency, better asset utilization and improved productivity, while meeting Union Pacific's customers' service requirements -- all of which are critical to remaining a leader in the highly competitive rail industry."

About Union Pacific

Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) owns one of America's leading transportation companies. Its principal operating company, Union Pacific Railroad, links 23 states in the western two-thirds of the country. Union Pacific serves many of the fastest-growing U.S. population centers and provides Americans with a fuel-efficient, environmentally responsible and safe mode of freight transportation. Union Pacific's diversified business mix includes Agricultural Products, Automotive, Chemicals, Energy, Industrial Products and Intermodal. The railroad emphasizes excellent customer service and offers competitive routes from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern gateways. Union Pacific connects with Canada's rail systems and is the only railroad serving all six major gateways to Mexico, making it North America's premier rail franchise.

About Teradata

Teradata Corporation ( 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

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