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Feed: Teradata Blog. City planning is a complex beast. Planners must predict population growth and its impact on zoning, utilities, transportation, social services, and regulations to name a few. A city planner rarely, if ever, gets a chance to start from scratch. They must take the current architecture and infrastructure into consideration when planning the future. Data mesh planning is a lot like city planning. Planners want to provide as much freedom and flexibility as possible to encourage business growth. To do so, they must provide zoning regulations, common infrastructure services and governance capability, which promote both efficient and sustainable growth. Zoning ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. In the U.S. market, 2021 was the year of expanding 5G coverage, building out 5G use cases and the start of the migration to 5G SA (stand-alone). This was the year that telco operators started figuring out the business plans for recouping 5G investments after some of the tier one operators invested more (Verizon ~ $45 billion, AT&T ~ $23 billion, T-Mobile $9.3 billion and U.S. cellular $1 billion) in acquiring 5G spectrum.Top Trends in 2021: Fixed Wireless deployments by the tier 1 carriers Expansion of 5G deployments in C-band, millimeter wave spectrum MEC Support Testing ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. There is a lot of hype today around data sharing and the value it brings to your business. But what exactly is data sharing, and why should you and your company care? In its broadest form, data sharing is when a provider or creator of data shares that data with a consumer or users. The reality is that the hype in the market today is really focused around solving the problem of how to share data effectively and easily with trusted internal and external entities for improving existing business processes, creating new ones, or generating new revenue ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) was one of the significant outcomes of the recent COP26 Climate Conference. As The Guardian Newspaper said at the time “Finance is the key to the massive economic transformation required to move away from fossil fuels and reach net zero so the global economy can be run without damaging the climate.”However, as many other commentators have stated, signing up to agreements is easy – implementing them is hard. This is where the impetus for action must now come. But how do global financial institutions pivot their decision making to ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. As we start the beginning of a new year, Teradata's top retail & CPG consultants give us their insight into what to expect in the world of retail, CPGs and supply chain in 2022 and beyond:  Many retailers are trying to contract ships for exclusive container shipments. Some have made big airfreight bets and filled entire planes with merchandise. Unfortunately, there will be unintended consequences, with huge amounts of extra inventory lying around stores and warehouses. This will place a premium on markdown optimization and signal monitoring to adjust ordering.     Big brands will have difficulty getting essential raw ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. If we look back 50 years ago to the 1973 oil crisis, a lot of things happened. The world and its response was, at minimum, flawed. However, some rational reactions came out of it.  The good: There was some motivation to look at an arguably oil/energy heavy agenda that put us reliant on external trading partners who weren’t necessarily friendly. Car companies in North America eventually built smaller cars. The bad: There was hoarding of energy-related products and long lines at gas stations. Governments enacted wage and price controls which we now know were disastrous policy ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. The Watchmaker analogy goes back 200+ years. It asks the question, if you were walking in the woods and found a watch laying on the ground, what would you think, “Did it grow organically or was there a designer?” You might examine it externally and be fascinated by the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, moon phases and tides being displayed. You then might test its accuracy and marvel at its continuous precision. Then you might open it up and be even more amazed that the displays are all being orchestrated together via a set of gears ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Though this article is on data analytics, let me start with space analytics. In space technology, a rover is a small vehicle that lands on a planet, such as Mars, and then makes an analysis of the surface. The rover is capable of very sophisticated analytics of complex terrains, atmospheres, and surfaces. The reason why the rover is capable of such advanced analytics is that it is not just a sample collection tool. It does most of the analytics directly on the planet.  Now try to imagine the space analogy in the context of data analytics. The database ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. The Data Mesh approach to enterprise data architecture has many benefits, but there is a widespread misunderstanding that will significantly limit those benefits for anyone who holds it.Data Mesh advocates a “divide and conquer” approach to enterprise data. The idea is to split up the work so that data products within each “domain” (such as credit card, mortgage, and retail banking within a financial services firm) can be deployed as independently as possible by minimizing the amount of coordination required across domains. This approach enables faster delivery through parallelization of work, improved quality by allowing experts within ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Think of any upgrade, migration, or competitive migration, which at Teradata is known as “Sweep,” as if it were a move of your residence, which of course, it is - for your business. You must sweep before you move into a new house and set up your stuff. For any move:  When you sign a lease or close on a house and get the keys, it’s just the beginning, isn’t it? You must have the movers you’ve hired get your “stuff” from the old place to the new one – that’s what Teradata Migration Services does. But that’s just part ... Read More