On the eve of Teradata’s Partners Conference, following Oracle OpenWorld, after Netezza’s User Conference, following HP Neoview’s debut, following Asterdata’s unveiling, after DatAllegro’s purchase by Microsoft and Greenplum’s extreme scale announcement…  I think you get the idea.  The Datawarehouse Database and Appliance market is starting to feel like the first generation of the relational database evolution in the 90′s, many new options and players driving innovation and performance at a breakneck pace.

Prospective buyers will find many new options to consider for implementing new or broadening existing BI initiatives, all with one thing in common.  They require effective, scalable data integration to be successful.  That is why we have strong partnerships, a growing ecosystem and referenceable customers with most/all of these new/extended offerings.

As the leading  Data Integration provider in the middle of all these offerings/options, we pay particular attention to the best methods to load large volumes of data, read data for downstream use and increasingly deliver real-time feeds for Operational BI and MDM initiatives.   If you’re attending Teradata Partners next week, see a joint customer deployment session with Cisco and hear about this linkage.

I look forward to seeing you there and at other events in the future!

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