Appfluent Announces Support for Teradata

ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Appfluent Technology, Inc., the leader in business activity and data usage software for analytic applications and data warehousing, today announced the availability of Appfluent Visibility for Teradata customers.

Appfluent Visibility for Teradata delivers insight into how analytic applications and data are used by the business to enable IT to retain and optimize the most relevant assets to increase operational efficiency and reduce data management costs.

The product uniquely integrates with the BI Applications such as MicroStrategy, SAP Business Objects, IBM Cognos, Oracle BI – providing BI application managers, Application DBA's, Data Architects, and ETL Managers, visibility into detailed insight into data usage, data dormancy and business-centric workload analysis on Teradata systems.

With Appfluent Visibility now available for Teradata, enterprises can get granular insight into business activity and data usage from legacy heterogeneous data warehouse systems deployed on Oracle/Oracle Exadata and IBM DB2 to streamline migrations to Teradata.

With Appfluent Visibility organizations can:

• Analyze usage and impact from a business perspective to streamline migrations, consolidations and improve IT efficiencies
• Discover how data and applications are used by the business to retain and optimize the most relevant data and analytics
• Identify unused or underutilized applications, reports and data to control data management costs  
• Decrease time to test and deploy new BI applications and data warehouse platforms

Key features of Appfluent Visibility for Teradata systems:

• Business Activity Analysis
  • Ability to map user activity to organizational and business hierarchy to measure trends and patterns of activity, data usage and performance impact by business units and departments.
• Data Usage Analysis
  • Object level analysis to identify what data is used and unused and how specific Tables and Columns are used to enable retaining and optimizing the most relevant data.
• Variance Analysis
  • Ability to compare activity between two time periods to discover variances in business activity, data usage and performance that impact business services.
• BI Application and User Activity Analysis
  • Appfluent integrates with leading BI applications to correlate data usage and performance metrics on the data warehouse with BI User_Ids, Report names and BI application data models without requiring Query Banding.
• Teradata BTEQ Analysis
  • Appfluent provides the ability to analyze Teradata BTEQ queries at an object level that are candidates for optimization.

"We collaborated with our leading Fortune 100 clients in financial services, retail and manufacturing on the development of Appfluent Visibility for Teradata," said Frank Gelbart, President and CEO, Appfluent Technology.  "Appfluent's business data usage analytics accelerates migration from Oracle or DB2 to Teradata, and to manage and optimize the business usage of the Teradata systems and analytic applications."

About Appfluent Technology, Inc.
Appfluent enables enterprises to manage Big Data smarter and better aligned with the business. Appfluent Visibility® provides insight into business activity, exposes how data is used and what data is unused, and tracks inappropriate user activity. With insight provided by Appfluent, IT organizations can rationalize costs and plan investments, respond faster with fewer resources and more efficiently manage exploding data growth. Visit www.appfluent.com

Appfluent is a registered trademark of Appfluent Technology, Inc. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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