NCR Captures New Market for DW on Windows 2000

The newest version of NCR Corporation's flagship Teradata database, version 2 release 4.0 (V2R4), is now shipping on UNIX MP-RAS, Windows NT, and Windows 2000 operating systems - the first massively parallel processing (MPP) system available on Windows 2000.

Active data warehousing, which allows for more operational use of the data warehouse in day-to-day and minute-to-minute decision-making, is no longer limited to UNIX. With Teradata V2R4, Windows users can have the same powerful capabilities. Teradata V2R4 users on Windows and UNIX are enjoying improved performance, more stringent reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) requirements and support of more complex analytic applications like OLAP and data mining.

One of NCR's newest Teradata V2R4 customers is Midwest Card Services. Headquartered in South Dakota, they provide backroom and management services for clients in the financial services industry. The company provides credit and debit card servicing such as customer service, payment processing, new account set-up and other service functions for financial industries. MCS also provides ATM funding servicing, Merchant servicing and plans to expand their operations to include other financial industry services in October, 2000. Midwest Card Services has recently installed Teradata V2R4 on Windows 2000 on a MPP system. "We're a small firm anticipating huge growth, so we chose Teradata because we know it offers the scalability to grow with us," said John Folkerts, vice president. "Being able to stick with the Microsoft platform was important to us, we appreciate the powerful capability that Teradata brings to Windows 2000."

"The market for high-end data warehousing on Windows is just taking off and we are seeing a lot of interest in Teradata from companies who want to keep their operations on Microsoft platforms," said Vickie Farrell, vice president of Teradata marketing. "NCR brings the power of high performance data warehousing to Windows. No one else can do that."

About NCR Corporation

NCR Corporation is a US$6.2 billion leader in providing Relationship Technology solutions to customers worldwide in the retail, financial, communications, manufacturing, travel and transportation, and insurance markets. NCR's Relationship Technology solutions include privacy-enabled Teradata warehouses and customer relationship management (CRM) applications, store automation and automated teller machines (ATMs). The company's business solutions are built on the foundation of its long- established industry knowledge and consulting expertise, value-adding software, global customer support services, a complete line of consumable and media products, and leading edge hardware technology. NCR employs 32,500 in 130 countries, and is a component stock of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. More information about NCR and its solutions may be found at www.ncr.com.

Contact Holly E. Michael of NCR Corporation, 937-445-6086, or holly.michael@ncr.com.