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8/3/2019 Teradata & Abinitio
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EB-1433 0901 PAGE 1 OF 2
Teradata and Ab Initio
Alliance Solutions
Teradata and Ab Initio in a Snapshot:
For more than 16 years, Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (www.ncr.com),
has delivered analytical solutions powered by data warehousing. By skillfully
combining parallel database technology, powerful hardware, experienced consultants,
and excellent industry tools and applications, Teradata enables customers to make
better decisions based on panoramic business insights.
Ab Initio Software Corporation, headquartered in Lexington, MA, develops software
solutions that process vast amounts of data (well into the terabyte range) in a
timely fashion by employing many (often hundreds) of server processors in
parallel. Major corporations worldwide use Ab Initio software in mission critical,
enterprise-wide, data processing systems. Together, Teradata and Ab Initio
deliver:
• End-to-end solutions for integrating and processing data throughout
the enterprise
• Software that is flexible, efficient, and robust, with unlimited scalability
• Professional and highly responsive support
These best of breedtechnologies useparallelism to manageenormous data flowswith speed, flexibility
and graphical appeal.
Here’s the problem: The volume of data
available to your business is enormous and
growing, but the time available to make
decisions based on that data is small and
shrinking. To get the complete picture of
how your business is doing, you need to
bring together data from e-commerce
servers, “brick and mortar” point-of-sale
systems, ERP systems, legacy operational
systems, and third-party data providers.
But data sources do not stand still. You need
current information – not monthly or even
weekly reports – to make good decisions. You
need to know what’s happening right now.
Here’s the remedy: a Teradata® solution,
driven by data warehousing and supported
by Ab Initio software for enabling data
transfers.
Parallelism
When you need to process large amounts of
data in small amounts of time – and when
don’t you? – parallelism is the key. Parallelism
enables practically unlimited numbers of
server processors to work together on the
same job. Sharing work shrinks the time it
takes to process data and give you the results
you need.
The Teradata analytical solution uses paral-
lelism extensively and effectively, processing
queries on loaded data at lightening speed.
Having a way to load the data at a comparable
speed is a critical component of the solution.Ab Initio performs.
The Ab Initio Co>Operating System®
depends on parallelism to connect (i.e.,
cooperate with) diverse databases. It extracts,
transforms and loads data to and from
Teradata and other data sources.
Since both Teradata and the Co>Operating
System are each highly scalable, and their
integration is also highly scalable, the
combination of Teradata and the
Co>Operating System enables an entiresystem to benefit from the performance
advantages of parallelism. A system can only
be as fast as its slowest part – a system that
only partially employs parallelism inevitably
suffers from “serial bottlenecks” that reduce
performance and efficiency. An integrated
Teradata/Ab Initio solution delivers the best
of each environment, with end-to-end
parallel performance on virtually any
hardware platform, including NCR’s
WorldMark Servers.
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Teradata and Ab Initio
Teradata and NCR are registered trademarks of NCR Corporation. NCR continually improves productsas new technologies and components become available. NCR therefore, reserves the right to changespecifications without prior notice. All features, functions and operations described herein may not bemarketed in all parts of the world. Consult your Teradata representative for further information.
©2001 NCR Corporation Dayton, OH U.S.A. Produced in U.S.A. All rights reserved.
www.ncr.com www.teradata.com
The application shown here integrates data from
web server logs with account information from a
legacy system to prepare data for loading into a Teradata Warehouse.
With Ab Initio creating currents of dataand data warehousing driving the Teradata
solution, you get a complete picture of your
business and its customers. Their combined
strength lets you:
• Extract data from multiple source
systems, including legacy applications
and relational database management
systems
• Transform data to import data from
multiple, incompatible sources
• Check the integrity of referential data
to ensure clean and valid informationcontent
• Load data continuously that has been
transformed, cleansed, and checked
into the data warehouse
• Integrate data marts with the data
warehouse
The Teradata solution joins with the entire
Ab Initio suite to let you construct intricate,
working applications simply and quickly.
In fact, all you need to do is drag and drop
components onto a canvas, then connectthem with arrows. By encapsulating complex
logic, even custom and legacy codes, into
“macro” components, you can build difficult
programs with ease. The Co>Operating
System executes your application by creating
and managing the processes and data flows
that the components and arrows represent.
To learn more about the value of Teradata
and Ab Initio, contact your local Teradata
representative or visit us at our web site at
www.teradata.com
.
Ab Initio’s ability to handle huge data volumes
using either real-time or batch data acquisition
and transformation with native inter-faces to the
Teradata RDBMS is an essential capability for the
deployment of Teradata solutions.
– Stephen Brobst, Chief Technology Officer,Teradata Solutions Division
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