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NCR analyzes the data, to spin off Teradata; soon-to-be public company has large presence in the market.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-JUN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: NCR analyzes the data, to spin off Teradata; soon-to-be public company has large presence in the market.(Company overview)

Article Excerpt
When it comes to analyzing corporate data, Teradata, a unit of NCR Corp., which has a large office in Rancho Bernardo, is one of the world's largest players.

The firm, which will be spun off from NCR in the third quarter, saw its revenue grow to nearly $1.6 billion last year while competing against the likes of Oracle, IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp.

Yet even in technology-savvy San Diego, Teradata has a low profile, a fact that comes with being a subsidiary of Dayton, Ohio-based NCR, and selling to customers that are primarily large, billion-dollar businesses rather than consumers.

Its business is also tough to describe. The company deals in collecting, storing, integrating and analyzing data.

That includes transactional data, personnel data, inventory data, customer data, shipping data--you name it, and Teradata will help you find it and use it.

"We allow our customers to understand and predict their business holistically," said Scott Gnau, Teradata's chief research and development officer.

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