Teradata Opens High-Speed Gateway to Real-Time Geospatial Business Intelligence

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the world's leading analytic data solutions company, today announced the availability of the GeoServer solution which connects the Teradata Database analytic engine to major open source geospatial and visualization applications - providing intelligence to solve complex business problems.  The solution leverages the power and performance of the Teradata Database offering business users easy, high speed access to rich in-database analytics from the combination of location and business data. The GeoServer solution is supported by OpenGeo, a global leader in open source geospatial solutions.

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"This is where the smart businesses are headed.  The combined analysis of spatial and business data can provide Teradata customers a strong competitive advantage," said Dave Sonnen, senior Spatial Information Analyst, IDC. "Teradata customers now have a high-speed connection from leading geospatial information system tools to the Teradata integrated data warehouse. They can take advantage of real-time spatial data to support their business analytics."

The GeoServer solution will speed up customers' access to real-time geospatial data, reduce deployment time, provide a more flexible technology architecture, and lower the cost of infusing valuable geospatial data into business intelligence applications.  In addition, Teradata customers can easily access hundreds of geospatial tools to meet individual enterprise business intelligence needs.

"The unique combination of geospatial power from the open source GeoServer solution and the marketing-leading Teradata Database engine offers customers a new, advanced ability to solve business problems," said Chris Twogood, director, Product and Services Marketing, Teradata.  "The Teradata Database is optimized for in-database geospatial analytics, which allow for real-time discovery, access, and manipulation of geographic data providing analytics through a visual display."

"We are excited to support Teradata for this new offering," added Chris Holmes, president of OpenGeo. "The GeoServer solution works with geospatial information systems (GIS), visualization tools and the Teradata Database. The highly-optimized GeoServer solution provides users with high speed analysis of massive volumes of spatial data, which greatly enhances business intelligence solutions."

The OpenServer solution allows the Teradata Database to seamlessly access and work with visualization and GIS tools, such as Google Earth, Esri ArcGIS, PitneyBowes, MapInfo, and uDig. OpenGeo's development and support of the GeoServer solution extends the ability to access business data through web applications, mobile devices, and desktop GIS clients. The GeoServer solution (www.geoserver.org) is the reference implementation of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (www.opengeospatial.org), Web Feature Service (WFS), and Web Mapping Service (WMS) standards.  

Relevant news links

1. "Geospatial Intelligence: Where It's At for Retailers," Socialization of data.com - http://www.socializationofdata.com/Features/Geospatial-Intelligence-Where-Its-At-for-Retailers/
2. OpenGeo.Org - http://opengeo.org/technology/geoserver/
3. Teradata Magazine Special Geospatial Edition - http://www.teradata.com/articles/Teradata-Magazine-Special-Edition-Location-Intelligence-AR6270/?type=ART
4. Geospatial video, Teradata.com - http://www.epageflip.net/issue/18819

About OpenGeo

OpenGeo is a social enterprise working to build the best web-based geospatial technology. The company brings the best practices of open source software to geospatial organizations around the world by providing enterprises with supported, tested, and integrated open source solutions to build the Geospatial Web. OpenGeo also supports open source communities by employing key developers of PostGIS, GeoServer, and OpenLayers. Since 2002, the company has provided successful consulting services and products to clients like the World Bank, Google, the UK Ordnance Survey, Portland TriMet, MassGIS, Landgate, and the Federal Communications Commission. OpenGeo is the geospatial division of OpenPlans, a New York-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that informs and engages communities through journalism and open source software. All of OpenGeo's revenue has been and will continue to be re-invested into innovative and useful software in support of the OpenPlans mission.

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