Briefs

9 October 2007, By Madan Sheina

Having last week formally split away from parent firm, ATM and cash register maker NCR, data warehousing vendor Teradata held its first annual Partners user group conference in Las Vegas as an independent company. The company also announced a slew of upgraded products and new service offerings and a major strategic tie-up with analytics software firm SAS Institute. CEO and president Mike Koehler, standing confidently behind a brand new Teradata logo and a new mantra of "Insight into Action", said in his keynote address yesterday: "Last Monday was another historical moment for Teradata. We're stepping into the market as a top ten publicly traded US software company and a member of S&P 500."

Teradata, which is headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, began trading as a separate corporation on the NYSE under the symbol TDC on 1 October.

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