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An intelligent partnership
Microsoft and Teradata partner to give users
better analysis and reporting tools. by Sam Tawfik
late. The alerts, accessed via Excel, can be store detailed business data includes > Vendor collaboration application.
used to display information such as com- marketing, supply chain intelligence Custom application designed to provide
mitted promotion date, total pallets and vendor collaboration applications; real-time alerts and data to vendors in
shipped, projected late pallets, potential lost Teradata load utilities are used to load a secure portal-based partner setting
sales and potential lost revenue. With this real-time data into the data warehouse: > Microsoft Visual Studio. Integrated
predictive information, XYZ can also drill • Semantic Layer. Created to support development environment used to
through to the detailed relational data to the vendor collaboration application develop and deploy the vendor collab-
track last completed event, next expected • Aggregate join indexes. Created to oration application
event, projected sales floor display date, support the ROLAP environment for > Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis
committed display date, projected days the vendor collaboration application Services. Analytical engine used by
late/early, contribution ranking, daily pro- • Teradata .NET Data Provider. Used the vendor collaboration application
motional uplift, potential lost sales and by the SQL Server 2005 Analysis to provide drill-through capabilities
potential lost revenue. XYZ can use this Services to access the Teradata to the Teradata Warehouse
operational information to take immediate Warehouse > Microsoft Excel 2007. Front-end
action to resolve a potential sales loss. The > Supply chain intelligence application. interface embedded into the vendor
company can speed up, redirect or send Custom application designed to cap- collaboration portal used to display
other products to alleviate the situation ture RFID logs and send them to the and access alerts, as well as the ability
before it occurs. Teradata load utility; the application to drill through to the detailed data
The following components are used to also includes historical and pre-defined
deliver this vendor collaboration solution: business process data to provide pre- Combined benefits
> Teradata Warehouse. Enterprise data dictive analytics such as alerts for The ABC Electronics example demonstrates
warehouse containing warehouse-to- late shipments how joint Microsoft and Teradata customers
can develop and deploy BI solutions utiliz-
ing the best of both technologies. Teradata
Partnering to benefit customers already stores and manages the enterprise
detailed data and can manage user work-
arlier this year, Teradata and Microsoft announced a working partnership to optimize
E interoperability between Microsoft business intelligence (BI) solutions and a Teradata
load to access and analyze the business
data. Microsoft delivers easy-to-use and
enterprise data warehouse to help information workers access, analyze and report on critical
cost-effective BI tools, such as Excel, that
data more quickly. The collaboration focused on providing interoperability between the
can be used by all employees in the enter-
Teradata Warehouse and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, which was released in
March 2007. prise through convenient delivery channels
In addition, interoperability collaboration efforts between Teradata and Microsoft will such as a Web browser, a hand-held device
include SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services; SQL Server 2005 Integration Services; and the or a smartphone. T
2007 Microsoft Office system including Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Windows SharePoint
Services and Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. Sam Tawfik, a technical product marketing
“Our goal is to enable business intelligence and performance management across the manager with Teradata, has extensive experi-
enterprise,” says Tom Casey, general manager for SQL Server at Microsoft. “SQL Server ence with integration, including application
2005 is an integral part of Microsoft’s end-to-end business intelligence platform, which design and development, middleware and
enables businesses to perform these types of mission-critical tasks. The seamless integration
enterprise integration architecture, and
of the Microsoft BI solution and Teradata technologies provides significant value to our
methodology-based enterprise solution
joint customers.”
implementation.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services is a leading online analytical processing serv-
er and provides a fundamental mechanism for surfacing data to other Microsoft analytic and
For more information, read
reporting tools. Microsoft applications and tools can access the data in this analytic engine
to bring data from the Teradata Warehouse to information workers in the tools they use
every day for high-speed, interactive reporting and analysis, as well as more traditional infor-
T
Online “Thinking outside the cube”
at TeradataMagazine.com.
To learn more about the Teradata/
mational reporting. Microsoft partnership, go to
—S.T. Teradata.com/Partners/Microsoft.