Teradata Revamps DW for SOA, BI

Teradata Revamps DW for SOA, BI describes some of Teradata's upcoming features, including claims that it will make many third-party BI tools obsolete.

Lea adds, however, that Teradata doesn’t believe BI tools are going away—just that they’ll have a more precisely delineated niche: “I don’t think the BI space will go away by any means. There is still a need for reporting, pushing out reports, etc, and that will always be there.”

Third-party BI tools work just fine for these sorts of applications, Lea acknowledges, but it just makes more sense to perform them in the data warehouse, where everything—the near-real-time loading of data, event-specific triggers, analytics, and so forth—can be done with a single copy of the data. What’s more, he argues, it also helps business decision-makers—as well as leaders in specific business domains—get closer to the data.