The Hindu Business Line : Teradata upbeat on retail space

Hyderabad April 11 Datawarehousing and business analytics solutions provider, Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, is in parleys with retailers in India to help them better manage the large flow of enterprise data.

Teradata, which is set to become a separate company later this year after spin-off, partners some of the largest enterprises such as SBI, ICICI Bank and LIC in the financial services and insurance space and Bharti and Hutch in the telecom sector.

The Vice-President of Teradata for South East Asia and India, Mr Denis Samuels, told Business Line "the company works closely with financial services, telecom and retail segments globally and in retail with the likes of Walmart and Tesco.

With Bharti in India partnering Walmart and possibly even Tesco striking a deal, we see immense scope for growth in the retail solutions in India."

Knowledge access

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"The company is in parleys with most of the retail players, has signed up with some and close to finalising more deals in India. Our solutions help build loyalty programmes, better manage inventory and customer chain," Mr Samuels said.

Teradata has grown in India, with an R&D centre at Hyderabad, global technology centre in Mumbai and an office in New Delhi. The company believes that it would play a bigger role in the expanding domestic market across business segments.

Investment option

"The accent is on lower capital investment. Initially, the model would be similar to what we do with large corporations, but over the next few months, we would possibly make it attractive to invest in datawarehousing and business analytics by offering software as a service model option," he said.

In India, Teradata is looking at addressing the Government sector, which has potential in datawarehousing, he said. Wipro was the partner in implementing at LIC, he said.

Post the spin-off, Teradata would be a newly listed entity with revenues of about $1.5 billion.