Category: Teradata

Feed: Teradata Blog. Two years after the word “COVID” entered virtually every conversation in both our private and professional lives, it appears that at long last there is light at the end of the tunnel. Companies are finally able to move from the rapidly evolving reactive and defensive approaches that have been so necessary, onto a more stable and longer-term focus within the “new normal”. During this period a significant percentage of supply chain activity was focused on operational elements, requiring constant firefighting just to get any goods to market and shore up supplies, as supply chain routes and capacities ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Many Teradata customers have interest in connecting Teradata Vantage as a Service with Microsoft Azure First Party Services. This guide describes ‘high-level’ Vantage as a Service connectivity options with the Azure Services. Although this approach has been implemented and tested internally by Teradata, it is offered on an as-is basis. Though, Azure connectivity options have been tested with Vantage as a Service, neither Microsoft nor Teradata provide validation given customer architecture and security requirements can vary greatly. Hence, guide should be viewed as a high-level reference only. This guide includes content from both Microsoft Azure and Teradata ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Looking back on my career there are two factors that were major influences.  First, my dad was a self-described “database guy” he worked at Epsilon Data Management, and I would delight in his stories of solving impossible customer problems with large IBM systems and how technology would save the day (or sometimes the systems crash). When the first Macintosh SE came out, my database-guy dad thought we should have a computer at home so my sister and I could learn about computers. I would go on to spend hours on dial-up boards and later the Internet. I ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. As retailers & CPG’s look to escape the challenges of the COVID pandemic, they are running straight into renewed headwinds of a different nature. A not so perfect storm is upon us, with a combination of rapid inflationary and cost of living increases resulting in reduced customer spending power, coupled with soaring cost of goods and transportation fees driving up the overall cost of doing business. Someone must come up with the solutions, and with no-one wanting to cover the cost and/or margin hit, innovative solutions need to be found. At the same time, there are a ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Sustainability is frequently regarded as just another compliance hurdle. Yes, it is vital, and banks, like other sectors, wholeheartedly embrace the need to change. But while it often starts with meeting regulations and commitments, it could be a much more positive engagement. Armed with the right data and the right analytics, banks can use sustainability as a catalyst to create innovative new lines of business, enhance value to customers, and create higher-margin products. The market although young and relatively unexplored, is potentially massive. As reported by Bloomberg, in just 8 years the market for sustainable financial products ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Customers are migrating data warehouses to Amazon Redshift because it’s fast, scalable, and cost-effective. However, data warehouse migration projects can be complex and challenging. In this post, I help you understand the common drivers of data warehouse migration, migration strategies, and what tools and services are available to assist with your migration project. Let’s first discuss the big data landscape, the meaning of a modern data architecture, and what you need to consider for your data warehouse migration project when building a modern data architecture. Business opportunities Data is changing the way we work, live, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. This is the fifth in a series of posts. We’re excited to share dozens of new features to automate your schema conversion; preserve your investment in existing scripts, reports, and applications; accelerate query performance; and potentially simplify your migrations from legacy data warehouses to Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift is the leading cloud data warehouse. No other data warehouse makes it as easy to gain new insights from your data. With Amazon Redshift, you can query exabytes of data across your data warehouse, operational data stores, and data lake using standard SQL. You can also integrate ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing ETL (extract, transform, and load), business intelligence (BI), and reporting tools. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data per day and power analytics workloads such as BI, predictive analytics, and real-time streaming analytics. There are many ways to interact with Amazon Redshift. You can programmatically access data in your Amazon Redshift cluster by using the Amazon Redshift Data API, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Welcome to the February 2022 update. We are thrilled to announce a variety of new and highly anticipated features such as new mobile formatting options, Dynamic M Query Parameters support for more data sources, deployment pipeline enhancements and improvements to downloading a PBIX file. There is more to explore, please continue to read on. Reporting Data preparation Data connectivity Service Mobile Embedded Analytics Developers Visualizations Other Check out the video below for this month’s summary: New mobile formatting options  Have you ever created a mobile-optimized report and struggled with its ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. INSURANCE Vehicle Telematics: The honeymoon phase is over. The sparkle of vehicle telematics will dwindle in 2022 as consumers and regulators further realize that promised transparency has been perhaps a smoke screen. Originally touted as a pathway to fairer, more controllable personal auto premiums, the fundamental prerequisite to expose volumes of intimate personal driving behavior to insurers and their 3rd party vendors is raising eyebrows with state insurance commissioners. Recently, an increasing number of carriers have submitted rate filings claiming “trade secret” as a justification to run black box algorithms under the radar, mounting calls for additional ... Read More