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Feed: Teradata Blog. Cytokines are small proteins in the body that regulate the immune system. A cytokine storm causes these proteins to fail in properly regulating the immune system. The immune system goes into over-drive and begins attacking the body. There are many pathways into the cytokine storm from a variety of conditions: Sepsis, organ transplant rejection, viruses like COVID-19 and many others. As the storm builds, there are variables that can be analyzed to understand its development, size and pathway. It is very similar to the process to predict a hurricane or tornado. Prior to a hurricane/tornado there are ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. As many Teradata customers have interest in integrating Teradata Vantage with AWS First Party Services, this Getting Started Guide document will help you to integrate AWS Glue with Teradata Vantage.  The approach this guide explains is one of many potential approaches to integrate with the service, and is offered on an as-is basis. Although the approach has been implemented and tested internally, there is no formal support from either Teradata or AWS on the approach.That said, your feedback is very desired and appreciated – what worked, what didn’t, how can this be improved, or etc.Please send your feedback to Vinod.Raman@Teradata.com ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Over the past several years, the drive to a digital supply chain and the use of IOT has been a major emphasis for those improving their processes and removing inefficiencies. In our quest for the next great technology or tool, have we missed some fundamentals? The current COVID-19 crisis has shone spotlights on supply chains and their ability to react and be flexible to changing demands and supply. However, this is not the first-time challenges have occurred where we have had to adapt and respond to some portion of the supply chain being disrupted; hurricanes Katrina and ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. In response to the current virus pandemic most of the grocery stores here in LA have limited how many shoppers they allow into the store at any one time. They position a gate-keeper outside the store entrance who directs the next shopper inside only after another shopper has exited.I was lined up outside my nearby Trader Joe’s store last week for about an hour, cart in hand, gloved and masked, waiting to pick up food supplies. I’m not the most patient person when I have to wait, but I was delighted once I got inside and saw ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Data – coming from the web, smart phones, sensors, servers, cell towers, payment systems, cameras, refrigerators, various applications, and huge array of other resources – is the new “oil”. This is particularly true within the telecommunications industry. While data itself is becoming increasingly commoditized, real value lies in what companies can do with their data:  to coordinate, orchestrate, extract, aggregate, store, and analyze data in unique ways and then incorporate these data-driven insights into day-to-day business processes.   Operationalizing world class analytics into day-to-day processes can help solve some of the greatest challenges in the telecommunications industry. With advanced analytics, communication service providers (CSPs) can minimize customer churn, make better marketing-spend decisions, improve operational efficiency, and optimize network design and ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 goals provide a shared purpose and a set of agreed positive outcomes to address the world’s most urgent sustainability challenges and create a better future for all. They address issues such as poverty reduction, education, gender equality, water, sustainable energy, inequalities and good corporate governance. Achieving the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) requires significant capital flows. It is estimated that a total investment of US $90 trillion is needed by 2030 in order to achieve the SDGs. Mobilizing this capital will require businesses to report on their SDG-related activities ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Continuing from our pervious blog post “Automotive Industry: Navigating Post COVID-19,” this post focuses on the Automotive supply chain - challenges faced and some possible mitigation strategies.Supply chains have become increasingly complex and global in their reach. However, many firms are unaware of this. In our previous post, we mentioned that 80% of global automotive supply chains have links to China, in some way or the other. Many of the OEMs may have realized the linkage when they were actually hit by the supply disruption.Most often, efficiencies in supply chains are achieved by applying lean methods and ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. What happens when three global, life-changing issues intersect at the same timeline in history?  The 21st Century Pandemic – affecting around 4 million people globally, with 250,000 fatalities; The Great Disruption – the world’s supply chains grinding to almost a halt; The Next Great Recession – countries around the world on lockdown, affecting mass livelihood. What we see now is that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a great deal of disruption that affects all of us in various ways, including an economic downturn that is more aggressive and severe as compared to previous ones we ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Making smarter, faster, more insightful decisions is how the best companies break from the pack to become the market leaders we most admire. And what differentiates the very, very best – the absolute top of the heap, the ones who enjoy disproportionate market share, the highest margins, and the most loyal customers – is the ability to understand the entirety of their business inside and out.    How do they do it? Data. More precisely, the very best companies on the planet treat data as an asset. They invest in data – and getting answers from data – to ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. As the COVID-19 outbreak in China increased in January 2020, it put pressure on the Chinese government to contain a growing public health crisis, just as China was entering its busiest travel season of the year. In order to take on the vast challenges, the Chinese government first needed to immediately move a large amount of medical resources (thermometers and coronavirus tests, as well as mobile hospitals capable of accommodating hundreds of thousands of people) to the central Chinese city of Wuhan from the rest of the country in ten days. It was particularly difficult to determine ... Read More