Teradata EPIC Awards Celebrate Customers' and Partners' Passion for Innovation

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 4, 2011  /PRNewswire/ -- The world's leading analytic data solutions company, Teradata (NYSE: TDC), today announced the winners and finalists of the Teradata EPIC Awards. Teradata's global customers and partners were acknowledged for their leadership in leveraging data to drive peak performance throughout their organizations, creating outstanding business results.

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"The Teradata EPIC Awards celebrate the pioneering passion of Teradata customers and partners who mastered data to make a significant contribution to their organizations' business goals," said Darryl McDonald, executive vice president, Applications, Business Development and chief marketing officer, Teradata.  "Their work to empower the business user with intelligence is at the epicenter of the coming fundamental change in business analytics. They have put all of their data to work, creating real business value for their companies."

Now in its fourth year, the awards program recognizes extraordinary innovations from Teradata customers and partners that use data to create, capture and return equity to their organizations.  Their solutions provide business insights and create competitive advantage. The customer and partner winners are listed by category below.

Teradata Customers

Customer Insights and Relationship Management
Winner – Mobile TeleSystems

Logistics and Inventory Optimization
Winner – Saks Inc.

Sustainable Business Practices
Winner – Cisco Systems

Excellence in Business Intelligence and Analytics
Winner – Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget

Transparency, Compliance and Risk Management
Winner – WellPoint, Inc.

Integrated View of the Business
Winner – NBCUniversal

On the Edge
Winner – Express Scripts, Inc. 

Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner Awards

Collaborative Revenue Contribution
Winner - Informatica Corporation

Best Business Solution
Winner - Celebrus Technologies Ltd. 

Excellence
Winner – SAS

System Integrator (SI) Partner Awards

Collaborative Revenue Contribution
Winner – Capgemini

Partner Driven Wins
Winner – Accenture

Business Innovation
Winner - Cognizant

The panel of ten judges represented a cross-section of the industry, and included chief information officers, analysts, educators, journalists and technology leaders.  The independent judges evaluated and ranked all of the submissions to select the finalists and winners.

For every nomination, Teradata donated $50 to the American Red Cross for Japan relief efforts.

Relevant news links

1. Teradata EPIC Awards 2011, Teradata.com - http://teradataepicawards.com/
2. "An Event of EPIC Proportions," http://blogs.teradata.com/darryl-mcdonald/An-event-of-EPIC-proportions/

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