We use Teradata as our company's data warehouse engine to process tons of data since we are the Central Bank of Columbia, where we use that for statistics to study several areas of banking. Our main database, data warehousing, data mining, and back office statistics are done with the help of Teradata. We heavily use Oracle as our transactional database, but we use Teradata for all other purposes.
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Teradata Vantage great product
What do you like best about the product?
Teradata Vantage has great value being a platform that can be multi-cloud, in addition to using all the resources in the best way to solve or facilitate the resolution of complex problems in all companies (regardless of the sector).
What do you dislike about the product?
I believe that beyond the product, the only thing that I disliked was not having a close relationship between the company and us as customers, but it has improved and there should be more, in addition to helping us get the best out of it in our environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mainly Teradata Vantage has helped us solve all the needs at the Business Intelligence level, in its main objective of solving data needs focused on Business Intelligence.
Modern and scalable data analytics platform
What do you like best about the product?
scalability and performance of database engine
What do you dislike about the product?
management console for administrative tasks
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integration of data on corporate level for single version of truth and broad range of analytics and reporting
The Vantage migration to Azure Cloud
What do you like best about the product?
Teradata is matured data analytics platform. We use it very extensively so we take advantage of its ability of execution of complex workloads. We appreciate detailed logging so we can tune well our workload.
What do you dislike about the product?
For a long time Teradata is lacking the modern GUI for developers and data analysts. The product - core database - is the best of breed - but the applications arround is the weak part.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use the platform for Data Warehouse purposes - we collect the data from more than 50 source systems and integrate them. These data supports many processes - customer value management, reporting, fraud, etc.
We're having a great experience
What do you like best about the product?
Using NOS has been amazing and has giving us lots of opportunities
What do you dislike about the product?
Don't remember any dislike about Vantage
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Accessing S3 directly
A tool that provides high performance and speed to its users, along with an exceptional scalability option
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
I am not exactly the person doing the programming and exploring the product's different features. To get information on the product's features, I will have to contact some engineers in charge of programming. The most valuable feature of the product is the ability of the product to process huge amounts of data without creating conflicts in the queries. The way the database and IntelliFlex are designed, you can process several queries from different applications simultaneously, and they don't conflict with each other. I mean, I think that's the reason why we find improvements in our query time. The way the queries are internally in IntelliFlex process makes them less complicated. In other databases, when you start a query, the dataset is put on hold for a while, so all the queries have to wait for the first query to finish. IntelliFlex and Teradata are designed to avoid such an issue because I am unsure. I feel Teradata IntelliFlex can function in the aforementioned manner since they manage smaller sets of data, because of which there are no conflict queries between one and the other.
What needs improvement?
I don't have the exact details of the improvement needed in the performance of Teradata IntelliFlex because I work with the infrastructure department. The infrastructure department is in charge of getting infrastructure for the system to work, but before having Teradata, the data processing was taking a lot longer than it is now. We got into Teradata because we needed fast processing of huge amounts of data since, in the past, we were trying to achieve it with Oracle databases, and it wasn't good enough. In the last two years, the processing times have reduced by a third or a fourth of the time without causing any problems because of the efficiency of the Teradata engine.
The only issue our company has with Teradata IntelliFlex is that it is not cost-effective because of the way the product has been designed. We have Teradata IntelliFlex on-premises because we pay for a lot of muscle that we are not using. The problem we're seeing is that when we try to move into Teradata IntelliFlex's cloud services, we notice that Teradata doesn't have a flexible price structure to allow you to use a fraction of IntelliFlex's extension and charge just for the use of the solution. We receive messages from Teradata asking us to pay for the services we use on-premises, while in reality we use less than 30 percent of the machine's capacity.
There is something that is not working in favor of the business models for IntelliFlex when you plan to move to the cloud.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Teradata IntelliFlex for two years. Our company plans to renew the solution's latest version, but the hardware is around two years old.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. In the two years we have been using the platform, we have had only one or two issues that got the service out for a few hours.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product's scalability is great. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
I rate the technical support a nine to ten out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward. Before IntelliFlex, we were using Teradata's 2700 and 2800 appliances. We were moving from a Teradata appliance to a new Teradata appliance, and during that process, we were able to move all the data in between three to six months without a problem, keeping both platforms working until we moved into IntelliFlex. The setup phase was a good process.
The solution is deployed on-premises. We are planning to move to the cloud in the future.
What was our ROI?
We feel that we are given the services from Teradata IntelliFlex for what we are paying. We are the Central Bank of Colombia, a non-profit organization, making it difficult for us to say that because of IntelliFlex, our earnings have increased. My institution doesn't aim for any earnings. We have been able to provide much better services to all of our customers, including all the financial institutions in our country, because of which I can say there has been a return on investment using Teradata IntelliFlex. A return on investment is possible based on the improvements in our service to our customers.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Our company is just looking to see if there is another product other than Teradata IntelliFlex that we can use in the future, not because we are not happy with the product. The reviews on Teradata IntelliFlex point out that it is a very solid and efficient solution, but we are slightly worried about the cost.
The price and the pricing structure should be improved.
Two years ago, we had plans to move into the cloud since we were doing so with all the products we have in our company to avoid having our own data centers. When we tried to move Teradata IntelliFlex to the cloud this year, we noticed that at this point in time, we might have to stay on-premises for a couple of years or until Teradata provides us with a better price structure. Owing to the aforementioned reasons, we have been considering moving to another more flexible platform and more price convenient for our company.
We are happy with the services provided by Teradata IntelliFlex.
What other advice do I have?
At this point, it's worth looking at other alternatives other than Teradata IntelliFlex, depending on the kind of use you plan to do with the platform. There are certain areas of our company where we have noticed that we could get the same benefits from another platform, especially from the ones which are not pricey. If you really want to take advantage of the wonderful performance and speed that Teradata provides, then you need to choose it. But if you don't need the level of performance offered by Teradata, you can look for other alternatives.
Overall, I rate the tool a nine out of ten.
A data fabric if you are used to Teradata environment
What do you like best about the product?
A flexible platform that integrates different file systems, OS, and data types to work and leverage them across data sources.
What do you dislike about the product?
Necessary all the connectors, and sometimes that requires another license
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A great solution if you work with Teradata in your work environment.
Great BI tool !!
What do you like best about the product?
Great tool to write query and run queries. It connects multiple databases to Teradata and copy data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Havent found any , but if they can provide cloud offerings to cut down the cost it would be great
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Joining Data across multiple platforms. We can copy data to Oracle and other databases.
Good Querying Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Teradata Vantage is a good data storing platform that we use to store all kinds of data. It is has good cloud storage and is very robust when querying the data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some times there is a lag when fetching the data which I think is the only drawback.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted a reliable tool and cost-effective tool for storing our data. This tool sort of provided a middle ground and solved all our problems.
Teradata has helped my business a tremendous amount
What do you like best about the product?
The best part about Teradata Vantage is the pay as you go policy. It's a great thing for our department's budget.
What do you dislike about the product?
It makes my computer slow, so it's hard to complete other work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analytics are crucial for every business. Teradata Vantage has allowed us to store data that gives us amazing data and analytics that employees here use daily to further their personal and business goals.
A quick and dependable dbms instrument with great information security.
What do you like best about the product?
In order to help information insight groups gain in-depth perspectives on information, Teradata Vantage provides us with dynamic representations as well as a bound together viewpoint on our data. Using an easy-to-use interface that enables productive group collaboration as well as easy report and dashboard development for end users, it has improved our information the board work. Everything is incredibly easy to understand, easy to see, and entertaining to comprehend our knowledge, from interacting with pretty much any data collection to developing perceptions. It cycles and manages a massive amount of data with an incredible speed that is unsurpassed by any other information instrument.
What do you dislike about the product?
Teradata offers a few unique and potent features that are extra in the suite because they aren't used in use. Saving customer data on an external cloud can cause issues with information consistency and security because it is more sensitive and private.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To store all of our case streams from Government health care, Medicaid, and Participation data for the past 10 years and more, we have started using this Teradata data set adaptation 15.0 in our application with the short name "EDW" - Which suggests Venture Information distribution center in our medical services task. This is merely used as an information distribution center where the entire of our company, which employs 60000 people, is based and where we store all of the data related to our cases, suppliers, participants, and specialists. To put it briefly, we are collaborating with a medical service entry to obtain data from an information distribution center (Heritage informations).
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