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The Challenges for Government Today

The Challenges for Government Today Industry solutions > Government

Today government faces many more challenges than it did even a

delivers a powerful service to end users, giving them rapid analysis

decade ago. Existing efforts to maintain the security of our society

of huge quantities of data to support tactical and strategic decision

have been stepped up, and new overseas obligations – both military

making. Enterprise data warehousing has become the key to

and civilian – have increased demands on resources. Yet these

consolidating business data and turning it into enterprise

resources are constrained. Whether it is funding, manpower or

knowledge.

time to deploy, every effort must now be made to accomplish more with less.

Ready access to reliable data is essential. If government departments can transform mountains of data including cost, investigative,

Meeting these unprecedented demands requires total asset visibility,

audit, and regulatory data into a wealth of policy and operational

round the clock data freshness, and real-time decision making.

insights, it will lead to a new era of informed government

Answers must now be delivered in seconds or minutes, not hours

programme management.

or days. Data must be correlated and converted to information, and information to knowledge to ensure the right decisions can be made. In most government departments there is another obstacle: trying to manage data from many sources including multiple existing information systems, and new industry-standard systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning. The ability to manage and share huge volumes of data is essential.

Fortunately the technology needed to bring together data from existing systems and give decision makers a single view of operations already exists. In recent years, private sector organisations have used data warehouses to provide asset visibility, integrate and analyse data, and then put that information in the hands of the

Until recently many departmental attempts to transform data into business intelligence have proved costly and frustrating.

Organisations have developed stove-piped systems that do not easily intercommunicate. Data synchronisation is difficult. Data quality is more often hoped for than realised. Data ancestry is too difficult to trace. Often the complete picture cannot be seen as data is being provided in separate reports that don‘t allow integration and take to long to produce.

Departments, with all the best of intentions, need help to overcome these difficulties to be truly successful. An enterprise data warehouse from Teradata dramatically changes these dynamics.

people who make the day-to-day decisions.

The Teradata Advantage

The true value of data warehousing comes from capturing and

Teradata is the global leader in enterprise data warehousing and

integrating information from sources across the organisation to create

analytical applications, delivering best-in-class technology and

an enterprise data warehouse – a complete, integrated picture of the

experienced data warehousing expertise to the world’s most

entire organisation that gives every user a single, consistent view

successful organisations. For more than 25 years we have helped

of the facts. More than an archive, the enterprise data warehouse

our customers make better, faster decisions by providing the analytical solutions needed to turn data into knowledge. We have helped address the unique problems of government, and of retailing, manufacturing, transportation, logistics and distribution, financial services, telecommunications, travel, healthcare, and insurance.

The Challenges for Government Today Industry solutions > Government

PUBLIC SECTOR

Companies as diverse as British Airways, Coca-Cola Enterprises and Ford turned to Teradata to help them link disparate information systems and stove-piped environments. Like most organisations,

Australian Customs Service BKK Health & Insurance, Germany Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield USA Pakistan National Database Registration Authority

they already had huge repositories of data.

Spanish Ministry of Transport

But the data was never properly analysed –

Tax Authorities in 6 US States

never used to support decisions, plan

US Department of Agriculture

strategies, or take immediate actions.

Ministry of Defence UK

Now it is.

US Air Force Naval Air Systems Command USA

“Exceptional business value over the past two and a half years. We’ve been able to show that the Teradata Warehouse has not only paid for itself, but has provided us a new budget line item of revenue that we’ll be able to see coming into the state.”

Missouri Department of Revenue - Jim Brentlinger - Administrator of the Taxation Bureau 10/8/2007

PRIVATE SECTOR 3M Allied Irish Bank Barclays Bank British Airways Continental Airlines DHL eBay Ford Motor Company

Teradata can work with you to design an enterprise data warehouse that meets your unique needs. Our experienced team is focused on your specific priorities and challenges to improve information management, intelligence, logistics, command and control, and operations functions, including: Managing and using data from multiple legacy systems

Iceland Foods JC Penney Metro Group Nike Norwich Union Ping Golf Qantas Royal Bank of Canada

Reallocating resources in the face of changing priorities Simulating "what if " scenarios using data to impact your situation Driving the highest ROI at the lowest cost

Sears Tesco Vodafone Wal-Mart

The Challenges for Government Today Teradata.com

Why Teradata?

Teradata offers a one-stop shop in the enterprise data warehousing world, providing a totally integrated scalable solution consisting of hardware, operating

Here are 10 reasons why you need Teradata.

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manage and analyse large data sets across system processing and storage resources. This translates into an uncommon level of performance while protecting the system investment with linear scalability.

Teradata is the only database management system

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queries, and scale linearly. And we’ve developed and installed more than 2,200 data warehouses across industry and governments worldwide.

Teradata’s unequalled heritage provides you with a

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technology – a combination of strengths unmatched in the industry. And when it comes to analysing huge amounts of data, no one knows more than Teradata.

Of all the one-terabyte plus sized data warehouses,

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What can this mean for you?

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eliminating the enormous costs and risks associated with maintaining a vast array of data marts and trying

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ownership.

For more information please contact Stephen Campbell on +44 7717682473 or alternatively on stephen.campbell@teradata.com

Ease of Management Teradata needs less support staff than other databases. So with Teradata you spend less time doing database administration and more time solving

Reduced Risk Teradata’s processing power enables simpler solutions. Teradata focuses on data warehousing so you can focus on your strategy.

World Class Data Solution Expertise Teradata pioneered data warehousing. Teradata has the world’s most experienced consultants and the most tried and tested data warehousing

Universal User and Application Access Teradata comes with a very wide range of drivers and utilities. Virtually any application or middleware framework can be integrated with Teradata.

Seamless Mainframe Integration Teradata offers optimised high speed channel mainframe connectivity.

Teradata’s data access, update, load, and unload utilities integrate

Mission-critical Availability Teradata delivers very high data warehouse availability. Teradata can provide robust service not just to your back office and front office but directly to your business partners and your customers.

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Investment Protection Multiple generations of Teradata systems can coexist side by side. So as your data warehousing needs grow, you can simply add more Teradata hardware while continuing to exploit your original investment.

to synchronise the data in them, it will deliver a rapid return on investment and lower total cost of

at any level of detail. You don’t have to spend time building and populating

seamlessly into the mainframe world.

It means unlocking the value of all your data to make better, faster, more effective decisions. And by

Teradata supports immediate user access directly to any view of any data

methodology to help you deliver success.

more than 90 percent run on Teradata, including the two largest data warehouses in the world.

Effortless Flexibility

business problems.

built-in base of government knowledge, global support services, and world-leading database

data warehouses. With Teradata, you can start small and enlarge your

multiple copies of your data for users to access it.

that can simultaneously support data management, perform large numbers of concurrent, complex

Teradata scales at all sizes, from entry-level systems to the world’s largest database seamlessly as your operations grow.

system, and database software. Teradata has developed these core components to strategically

Effortless Scalability

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Proof Beyond Claims Don’t just take our word for it. Ask the people who use Teradata in the many government organisations and leading companies every day.