Teradata Positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Data Warehousing By Leading Analyst Firm

Business Wire, Oct 16, 2007

Evaluation Based on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision

DAYTON, Ohio -- Teradata Corporation (NYSE:TDC), the global leader in enterprise data warehousing, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Teradata in the leaders' quadrant in its "Data Warehouse DBMS Magic Quadrant - 2007," authored by Donald Feinberg and Mark A. Beyer (Oct. 10, 2007). The report evaluates vendors that supply database management system software used to support data warehousing.

The report follows Teradata's recent debut as a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange and completes a highly successful Teradata PARTNERS User Group conference. The event surpassed all previous records for attendance, participation and positive feedback from leading companies, partners, analysts, academics and other thought leaders.

"The Gartner Data Warehouse DBMS Magic Quadrant report is great news for Teradata and our extended community of users across the world," said Randy Lea, vice president of Teradata product and services. "We are proud of our Gartner positioning based on the criteria detailed in the report, but more importantly, we believe they take great pains to validate marketing claims with customer reality and validate that customers do indeed achieve value and performance."

According to Gartner, vendors who are positioned in the leaders' quadrant are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.

Enterprise Data Warehouses produced by Teradata are designed to analyze business operations to drive better, faster decisions by providing a complete view of the business and the flexibility and agility to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Teradata provides integrated, optimized and extensible technology for a single application-neutral repository of a company's current and historical data, forming the framework of the business intelligence architecture.

The latest data warehouse release, Teradata 12, includes advanced features such as high-performance parallel database technology, a cost-based optimizer, a sophisticated mixed workload management tool, a full suite of data access and management tools and data mining software. Teradata 12 enables organizations to achieve Active Enterprise Intelligence by building on the strengths of an enterprise data warehouse, helping our customers to deliver strategic and operational intelligence in a single system. Teradata shipped the first data warehouse in 1984.

Gartner's Data Warehouse DBMS Magic Quadrant - 2007 is available online at http://www.teradata.com/t/page/174072/index.html

About Teradata

Teradata Corporation (NYSE:TDC) is the world's largest company focused on raising intelligence through data warehousing and enterprise analytics. Teradata is in more than 60 countries and on the Web at www.teradata.com.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted Oct. 2007 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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