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DAYTON, Ohio, Dec. 4, 2000 /PRNewswire/ -- NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) today announced the beta availability of TeraMiner Analytics. TeraMiner Analytics enables business analysts to find patterns in data to build models of customer behavior. These models can then be used to predict future behavior and plan marketing campaigns accordingly. The beta program, which officially commences on December 15, already includes some of NCR's new dot-com customers.

Competitive benchmarks have shown TeraMiner Analytics provides an order of magnitude performance increase over competitive data mining solutions by incorporating the machine learning algorithms into a Teradata warehouse. This technique enables TeraMiner to leverage the parallel processing capabilities of Teradata. In addition this enables the data to be left "in place" as it is processed, eliminating lengthy data transfers. For example, an NCR customer, a major consumer goods manufacturer, was able to decrease one of its analyses from 312 hours using a rival system to 12 hours on TeraMiner.

NCR incorporated OLAP extensions into Teradata SQL with Teradata V2R3. TeraMiner Analytics is the second in the Teradata suite of data mining products. The first, TeraMiner Stats, was released June 1999, and manages data exploration and pre-processing. Companies wishing to join the beta program should contact their NCR sales representative.

see http://www3.ncr.com/product/brochures/pdf/eb1384.pdf