Handling Hot Data: CANAL+ Group Delivers Personalized TV Recommendations for Subscribers With Teradata Analytics

PARIS, Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on the success of its current Teradata analytics program that delivers personalized TV program recommendations to subscribers, CANAL+ Group has migrated to the new Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse 6650 from Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the world's leading analytic data solutions company.  The upgrade has provided additional processing capacity to help CANAL+ Group, France's largest pay-TV company, keep pace with ongoing business growth. Since 2005, CANAL+ Group has relied on Teradata to handle its significant volume 'hot' operational and customer usage data that is accessed daily.

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"Teradata's capacity for handling massive data volumes and rapidly processing information gives us a significant advantage when it comes to dealing with the huge amount of data generated by the CANAL+ Group's activities. Digitalization and the surge in internet access have spawned a plethora of data: electronic exchanges, multi-screen distribution and non- linear services, multi-channel CRM (TV, IVS, PC, smart phones and tablets), etc. It is essential that we choose the right technology for exploiting this high potential value-added information. Migrating to the latest-generation Teradata platform will enable us to meet current and future needs," said Joseph Guegan, executive vice president, technology and information systems, CANAL+ Group.

Supported by Teradata Professional Services, CANAL+ Group completed migration earlier this year, with no disruption to day-to-day operations. In addition, IT teams have significantly improved operational data processing, with production schedules shortened by almost six hours. Soon the platform will also consolidate key indicators from the Group's subsidiaries around the world.

The new platform has enabled the film and television studio and distributor to centralize and converge data from its departments and subsidiaries. Some 3 million queries per day from about 1,000 data feeds are now processed more efficiently and quickly. Further, the platform allows CANAL+ Group to perform a wide range of data mining activities, including customer segmentation and scoring, and conduct more than 1,000 marketing campaigns annually that involve 350 million contacts. High-level scalability means that the platform can support the CANAL+ Group's growth long into the future.

"Supporting an organization as large and as fast-growing as the CANAL+ Group is the essence of our business," said Hermann Wimmer, president, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Teradata Corporation. "Our Active Enterprise Data Warehouse interfaces with all of the Group's data systems, allowing it to collect and process huge flows of data for a diverse range of purposes, including data mining, operational intelligence, predictive analytics, KPIs, and data consolidation."

About CANAL+ Group

CANAL+ Group is the leading pay TV group in France, ranking first both for its premium-content networks with the generalist channel CANAL+ Group and associated channels, and its themed networks, which include CINE+, SPORT+ and PLANETE+. It is also the top multi-channel platform and distributor for pay-TV offerings in metropolitan France and French territories overseas, as well as in French-speaking Africa, where it reaches a total of 11.1 million subscribers. A pioneer in innovative TV services, CANAL+ Group has a high international profile, with a presence in pay-TV in Poland and Vietnam. Overall, Group subscribers number some 12.7 million worldwide. Through its subsidiary STUDIOCANAL, CANAL+ Group is the European leader in production and distribution of feature films. A free-to-air TV operator with news channel i>TELE and in-house advertising sales division CANAL+ REGIE, the Group is also a benchmark player in sports rights marketing.

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