KDDI Selects Teradata’s Active Enterprise Data Warehouse Platform,
Designed for Fast Processing Speed and Scalability for Complex Data
Analysis by Many Concurrent Users
Japan’s second largest telecommunications company, KDDI has put into
operation a Teradata
Active Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) platform from Teradata
Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the world’s largest company solely focused on data
warehousing and enterprise
analytics. The Active EDW will serve as the data retrieval and
analysis platform that KDDI uses to perform multi-faceted analyses of
customer, rate and other related data from its mission-critical sales
support and planning system.
The Active EDW replaces another vendor’s platform that has experienced
performance deterioration as the number of users, data volume and query
complexity has increased. Testing of the Teradata Active EDW platform
demonstrated a seven-time increase in the average performance than the
current data warehouse system, without requiring tuning. The Teradata
installation enables KDDI to integrate the data on customers and usage,
and other critical information gathered from a wide range of KDDI
service operations, and to analyze that information to further improve
customer service.
The Teradata Active EDW installation is expected to improve the
efficiency of disk usage as compared to the current platform, enabling
the company to cut back its disk and other hardware investments,
according to KDDI company officials. Also, the company expects to
substantially reduce system operating costs by eliminating the complex
system tuning required for the previous platform.
“Using the Teradata Active EDW platform for extensive analysis of its
business operations will help KDDI find ways to improve its customer
service. These improvements, and the lower cost of operating a Teradata
system compared to its previous data warehouse platform, mean KDDI will
quickly begin realizing a return on this investment,” said David Grant,
vice president of global industry solutions, Teradata Corporation.
This first phase of the Teradata installation begins KDDI’s migration to
a new data retrieval and analysis platform running exclusively on a Teradata
platform. Future phases will involve migration of additional
corporate data for a full enterprise-wide system running on Teradata.
About KDDI
KDDI provides its 30 million mobile phone subscribers with wireless
voice and mobile Internet services. Additionally, nearly five million
home and business subscribers use the company's fixed-line services,
which include broadband Internet connection and computer telephony; it
also provides traditional international long-distance connection.
Fixed-line services are sold under the au one net banner. KDDI also
offers wireless and online financial services through a partnership with
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.
About Teradata
Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) is the world's largest company solely
focused on raising intelligence through data
warehousing, data
warehouse appliances, consulting
services and enterprise
analytics. Teradata is in more than 60 countries and on the web at www.teradata.com
Teradata is a trademark or registered trademark of Teradata Corporation
in the United States and other countries.
Teradata Corporation
D’Anne Hotchkiss, 609-433-1715
D’Anne.Hotchkiss@teradata.com
