On The Market:Celent Communications Ranks Teradata Value AnalyzerTeradata, a division of NCR Corporation, announced that Celent Communications, a Boston-based consulting and research firm, ranked Teradata Value Analyzer as the top customer profitability application for financial institutions with assets above five billion dollars. Financial service institutions use customer profitability applications to measure and optimize the value of individual customers. Celent research estimates that 60 percent of North American financial institutions with more than $20 billion in assets use a profitability application. The applications are of special interest to marketers involved in customer relationship management (CRM), helping them to better understand trends in customer profitability. "Teradata Value Analyzer is one of the most comprehensive solutions for customer profitability analysis available on the market today for global financial institutions with assets over five billion dollars," said Gwenn Bezard, Celent analyst. "We particularly value the marketing-friendliness of the solution, as marketers are increasingly under pressure to handle customer profitability measurement to align CRM strategies to profitability considerations." "Leveraging the power of the Teradata data warehouse, Teradata Value Analyzer is a dynamic tool that offers critical analysis empowering executives to make decisions that drive growth," said Jim Donovan, vice president of Teradata financial services marketing. "Teradata is proud to be recognized by Celent Communications for providing tools that help financial services institutions more successfully manage customers." The Celent report ranks the solutions provided by eight vendors, including CoreProfit, EarningsInsights, HNC Software, IPS-Sendero, Metavante, NCR Teradata, PeopleSoft and SunGard BancWare. About Celent CommunicationsCelent Communications is a research advisory firm dedicated to helping financial institutions formulate comprehensive business and technology strategies. Celent publishes reports identifying trends and best practices in financial services technology, and conducts consulting engagements for financial institutions looking to use technology to enhance existing business process or launch new business strategies. With a team of internationally experienced analysts, Celent is uniquely positioned to offer strategic advice and market insights on a global basis. Celent's research services cover the following eight sectors of financial services: Retail Banking, Wholesale Banking, Retail Trading, Institutional Trading, Personal Insurance, Commercial Insurance, Mobile Financial Services and European Financial Services. To learn more about Celent Communications, go to www.celent.com. About Teradata DivisionTeradata, a division of NCR Corporation, offers powerful analytical solutions that help businesses drive growth. Teradata solutions include the Teradata database, and analytical applications for customer relationship management, operations and financial management, business performance management and e-business. To learn more about Teradata Division and its solutions, go to www.Teradata.com. About NCR CorporationNCR Corporation is a 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 31,400 in more than 100 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 Dan Conway, Teradata Division of NCR Corporation, 858-485-3029, or dan.conway@ncr.com. Informatica PowerCenter 5 Increases Performance 500 PercentInformatica Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise analytic software, announced that the current release of its Informatica PowerCenter 5 data integration platform performs complex data mappings and aggregations more than five times faster than the platform's previous release. Conducted on HP Superdome servers, the recent tests also demonstrated Informatica PowerCenter's scalability as data volumes increase. "Once again, we have broken through already strong performance numbers to confirm that Informatica PowerCenter is exceedingly fast -- even when confronted with large data sets," said Joe Nicholson, Informatica vice president of marketing, platform technologies. "As the amount of data today keeps expanding and the real-time demand for information grows, Informatica PowerCenter continues to demonstrate its powerful capabilities for helping companies transform their data into actionable business insight." "The performance advances and linear scalability exhibited by the newest release of Informatica PowerCenter are impressive," said Mark Hudson, worldwide marketing manager of HP's Business Systems and Technology Organization. "Clearly, HP Superdome servers and the Informatica PowerCenter platform make a powerful pairing for companies that need to scale their data integration environment and maximize analytic capabilities in the face of today's and tomorrow's increasing flow of business data." Raising the Performance BarCompleted in December of 2001, the performance tests for the latest release of the Informatica PowerCenter platform were conducted on a 64-processor HP Superdome server with HP Surestore XP512 disk arrays. Based on third-party (TPC) decision-support queries that represent real-world scenarios, the results demonstrate significant performance gains over the previous release of Informatica PowerCenter tested in April of 2001. Three of the 22 queries in the industry-standard TPC-H test suite were run against a data set consisting of over 875 million rows. The complex data mappings were completed in less than 6 minutes -- over 500 percent faster than the 29 minutes taken by Informatica PowerCenter software in the earlier tests. (Note: These results are not intended to represent official TPC benchmark results.) Scaling Performance LinearlyInformatica PowerCenter also demonstrated the ability to scale its performance linearly, meaning that the time required to process larger data sets remained near constant by increasing the number of processors. Tests were conducted on an HP 9000 Superdome server in three different configurations. "This round of tests helped demonstrate that customers can scale their Informatica PowerCenter implementations from entry-level to high-performance servers, helping them gain the full computing power and economic value of each additional CPU," said Nicholson. About InformaticaInformatica provides enterprise analytics software that enables decision makers to transform business insight into competitive advantage. Informatica offers the industry's only integrated enterprise analytics suite, including a powerful data integration platform, cross value chain analytic applications, and real-time delivery of analytics via Web, wireless and voice. More than 1,465 customers worldwide, including 60 percent of the Fortune 100, rely on Informatica software to integrate, analyze, personalize and deliver critical information to managers, executives and other decision makers to optimize business performance. Our list of global customers includes 3Com, AMD, American Airlines, BMW, BP Amoco, Brocade, Brunswick, Cisco, Deutsche Bank, eBay, General Electric, France Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, MetLife, Motorola, Nestle, Nokia, Orbitz, Philips, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sprint, UBS, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Postal Service and Washington Mutual. For more information, call 1-650-385-5000 (1-800-970-1179 in the U.S.), or visit the Informatica Web site at www.informatica.com. Visual Mining Inc Announces Release of NetCharts 4.0Visual Mining Inc announced the commercial release of NetCharts 4.0, which will further expand the data visualization capabilities of organizations utilizing the internet to communicate key information. NetCharts java-based charting software previously received industry honors including JavaPro: Readers Choice Award, Java Report: Writers Choice Award, and JARS: Top 1% Award. The new NetCharts 4.0 version gives programmers and Web developers greater versatility than ever before in the interactive visual display of quantitative information. Hyperion Solutions Corporation, a global leader in business intelligence software, accelerated the inclusion of the NetCharts 4.0 into their product Hyperion Analyzer soon after evaluating a pre-release version. "The enhancements in NetCharts 4.0 will allow our users to better visualize their data for greater understanding so they can make informed decisions about their businesses," said Ray Evans, vice president Product Marketing for Hyperion Essbase and Analysis Tools. "The extended charting customization will give Hyperion Analyzer users additional flexibility to view their Essbase data in precisely the way they want." "NetCharts has seen tremendous acceptance over the years," said Michael MacDonald, founder and CEO of Visual Mining. "I'd like to think it's the way we build products, not just the products themselves, that makes them continually succeed they way they have. We listen to what our customers want and how they build applications. We then strive to exceed their expectations -- both in products and services." What's New in NetCharts 4.0NetCharts 4.0 introduces a number of new drawing features as well as an entirely new chart type. These new features combine with the sophistication and interactivity of the NetCharts product line to give users endless possibilities when considering how to display information.
About Visual MiningVisual Mining builds data visualization solutions. Our products make it easy for programmers and non-programmers alike to easily embed charts and graphs into Web-based applications. Our sole focus on data visualization allows us to build products with the depth and breadth that sophisticated users require. Additionally, a strong commitment to our customers is a primary reason why hundreds of organizations globally choose these charting tools. Visual Mining produced the first commercially available, Java-powered charting engine in 1996. Since then, these products have won numerous industry awards. We have an extensive customer base, superior engineering support and consulting services, along with a comprehensive understanding of the visualization market. Contact Visual Mining Inc, John C. Chaconas, 301-795-2238, jchaconas@visualmining.com. |
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