The Hindu Business Line : Teradata opens centre for global consulting

Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, hopes to open up the market for managed services and has created a global consulting centre (GCC) in India at Powai, to offer its professional consulting services.

The Vice-President of Global Consulting Services for Teradata, Mr Darryl McDonald, said that globally enterprises are taking to new approaches to manage their data and increasingly opting to focus on their core competencies while outsourcing their data management issue.

Solutions for problems

"Through a specialised global consultancy centre, Teradata would be able to offer enterprises a solutions approach to their data management problem. The global consultancy centre will partner with global companies to help them leverage their data to bring about higher productivity. Large company databases would be converted into intelligence through analytics and this in turn into actionable intelligence," he explained.

On a visit to India to inaugurate its GCC, Mr McDonald told Business Line that this would be a strategic centre that would host specialists drawn from areas such as data warehouse, business intelligence and technologists who would help enterprises better manage their information.

To serve customers

The GCC will be equipped with Teradata tools, business warehouse and business intelligence experts, and serve as a strategic centre for customers across 15 countries globally through a total solutions approach.

Further, the compliance market is forcing companies to take a single point view of the large data that resides with them. Banking and financial services, industries, telecom, Government and manufacturing are among verticals that are taking to Teradata solutions.

Fast growing market

Mr McDonald said the Asia-Pacific market has emerged as one of the fastest growing regions for the $1.4 billion company.

This centre is expected to complement the NCR R&D centre based in Hyderabad.