The Information Difference is an analyst firm focusing on master data management (MDM). Its Big Data Warehouse Landscape is the most comprehensive listing of big data warehouses and the key players.
Its Q4, 2106 report lists 25 key players and the top six, Teradata, IBM, Oracle, SAS, Microsoft and Greenplum (Dell) all offer different takes on data warehousing.
While the concept of data warehousing has been around since the late 80s the needs have changed from transaction processing to analytics. Another challenge has been to break down the silos between various transaction systems such as ERP, CRM, and supply chain. Data such as customer, product, and material typically appeared in multiple systems and were prone to duplication.
Data warehouses must deal with ever-increasing data volumes. In 2003 the largest data warehouse in the world was 30 TB in size - there are many examples now of petabyte-sized data warehouses. Typical data growth rates of 20-50% annually are attributed to newer data sources, such as web traffic, sensor data, and telephone call data, much of which can be huge in volume.
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Andy Hayler, chief executive officer and co-founder of The Information Difference, said, “Our evaluations found that Teradata technology leads the big data global marketplace in the categories: customer satisfaction, maturity, and functionality. Teradata’s historic market strength also continues to be robust entering 2017, which clearly correlates to their high regard among some of the largest Fortune 1,000 customers in retail, finance, online commerce, manufacturing and other industries across the world.”
Hayler noted that referenced organisations said they were more than satisfied with Teradata’s technology, services, and deployment expertise, he congratulated Teradata for having “the happiest customers” among the world’s top 25 big data vendors.
Oliver Ratzesberger, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Teradata, said “Teradata is excited to be named the technology leader among so many well-known providers. Analytics is our passion and we are laser focused on aggressively delivering technology innovations that enable our customers to drive extraordinary business outcomes. We are even more gratified that we are named number one based on objectively analysed criteria around functionality and maturity. These are important attributes at a time when market hype can obscure the valuable transfer of knowledge and return on investment that benefits Teradata customers.”
