Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse offers a more cost-effective cloud solution. However, the main challenge we encounter, especially in South Africa, is the limited bandwidth available for connecting to our cloud network. This is where the cost factor becomes significant, making it impractical to fully utilize the cloud due to the bandwidth constraints required for communication with the cloud. This limitation poses a major problem. While we can access certain features of cloud solutions from Teradata for free to evaluate them, it is not feasible for serving a large user base like two to three million people accessing the database. To accommodate such a user load, we would need a massive and robust pipeline connecting to the cloud.
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Is quick, easy to upgrade, and cost-effective
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The cloud is ten times better than physical hardware; it is more cost-effective and the upgrade process is ten times easier. Teradata Cloud options are also more affordable for anyone, especially for small companies. However, if our company expands significantly, it may become less affordable due to the costs associated with the necessary connection and bandwidth required to communicate with the servers.
What needs improvement?
South Africa must significantly improve its internet infrastructure to reduce its high costs. I believe South Africa is one of the most expensive countries in the world when it comes to obtaining high-speed internet connections. We need to establish different service level agreements with clients to ensure we have backup lines and redundancy. The crucial question we need to ask ourselves is, how reliable do we want our internet connection to be? In the case of using cloud services, it's essential to have another line as a backup in case the primary one fails. In our situation, having a backup line is definitely necessary, but it also adds to the expenses. For a major bank like ours, relying on a single connection to the cloud is not feasible; we must have a second line in place to ensure uninterrupted service in case of any issues with the primary line.
The cost of Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse has room for improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse for a few years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I don't think there is another system in the world as stable as Teradata. They have a redundant hardware setup with double components for everything. If one component fails, another one takes over. This redundancy extends to the data side as well. The system runs on multiple disks, so if one disk fails, the data is still available on another disk, and the replacement process is seamless thanks to hot-swappable components. We don't have to shut down the entire system to replace most parts in the Teradata system. We can simply slide out the faulty component and slide in a new one. Unlike old technologies that required powering down the entire system, Teradata's architecture allows for most operations to remain functional even during maintenance. However, in certain cases, depending on the architecture, we might need to power down the systems.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse is highly scalable. I believe that Teradata is more scalable than IBM. Teradata is ten times faster in processing data compared to IBM. When it comes to multi-processing, IBM loses out to Teradata. For example, if we want to store files and we're running five, and we have 20 disks, restoring a certain file will be slower with IBM compared to Teradata. Other solutions may restore that file on one disk and its mirror image, but with Teradata, it functions differently. It stores parts of the file on all the twenty disks, which is why it performs so fast. Teradata's ability to utilize all the disks in the configuration through multi-processing is the reason for its speed.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support at Teradata is the best in the world. All the support engineers have university degrees, and Teradata has its own university where we can access all their courses and components available in the market. This includes other applications as well. All of these resources can be found at Teradata University. About 80 percent of the courses can be completed remotely, but there are certain aspects that require in-person attendance in a classroom setting.
To access Teradata University and its resources, being a client is necessary, and certain subscriptions must be purchased based on our specific needs and inquiries, particularly regarding the Database Administrator side. The information we can access depends on the licenses we acquire with the system.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward, but we may struggle the first couple of times; however, it is very user-friendly. Anybody can download the solution and play with it. Moreover, there is a place where we can ask for help if we encounter problems during the installation of Teradata Cloud. This is one of the reasons why Teradata is very popular, as there are always people available to assist us.
The time required to set up a cloud depends on its size. For a small Teradata Cloud, it usually takes around 45 minutes to complete the setup process.
The most important part is to do our planning and understand the client's requirements before deploying the solution. There is no point in deploying a cloud solution for a client without knowing their specific requirements. Therefore, I believe that the planning phase is the most crucial aspect. Once we have a clear understanding of what the client wants, we can proceed with setting up Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse for them.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation is done in-house by our solution architects.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Teradata used to be expensive, but they have been lowering their prices. The cost is becoming more comparable to other models, like IBM. I would rate the price a seven out of ten, with ten being the highest.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse ten out of ten.
Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse is plug-and-play, much like Microsoft. It is a user-friendly and efficient product, and users will be pleased with its speed.
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.
Teradata Vantage: Empowering Data-Driven Excellence
What do you like best about the product?
Unmatched Scalability: One of the standout features of Teradata Vantage is its ability to handle massive volumes of data with ease. It effortlessly scales to accommodate the ever-growing data demands of modern enterprises, ensuring optimal performance even when dealing with complex analytics tasks.
Advanced Analytics Capabilities: Vantage's rich set of analytical functions enables users to perform sophisticated analyses and derive meaningful insights from their data. Its built-in machine learning algorithms, geospatial analysis, and predictive modeling tools provide a competitive edge in today's data-driven landscape.
Unified Platform: A significant advantage of Vantage is its unified architecture, which seamlessly integrates various data types, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. This versatility allows organizations to break down data silos and derive valuable cross-functional insights, fostering collaboration and driving innovation
Advanced Analytics Capabilities: Vantage's rich set of analytical functions enables users to perform sophisticated analyses and derive meaningful insights from their data. Its built-in machine learning algorithms, geospatial analysis, and predictive modeling tools provide a competitive edge in today's data-driven landscape.
Unified Platform: A significant advantage of Vantage is its unified architecture, which seamlessly integrates various data types, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. This versatility allows organizations to break down data silos and derive valuable cross-functional insights, fostering collaboration and driving innovation
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning Curve: Given the extensive functionality and breadth of features offered by Vantage, there is a learning curve associated with mastering the platform. Users may require some time and training to fully leverage its capabilities effectively.
Cost Considerations: While Teradata Vantage undoubtedly delivers exceptional value, the licensing and infrastructure costs associated with the platform can be a significant investment. Small to mid-sized businesses with limited budgets may find it challenging to fully embrace Vantage without careful financial planning.
Cost Considerations: While Teradata Vantage undoubtedly delivers exceptional value, the licensing and infrastructure costs associated with the platform can be a significant investment. Small to mid-sized businesses with limited budgets may find it challenging to fully embrace Vantage without careful financial planning.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Complex Analytics Workloads: Traditional analytics platforms often struggle to handle complex analytics workloads, including advanced analytics, machine learning, and predictive modeling. Teradata Vantage offers a comprehensive set of advanced analytics capabilities, empowering organizations to perform complex analyses, develop machine learning models, and derive valuable insights from their data. It simplifies the process of implementing sophisticated analytical techniques, enabling organizations to extract maximum value from their data.
Data Security and Governance: With the increasing importance of data privacy and compliance, organizations need robust security and governance measures to protect sensitive information. Teradata Vantage addresses these concerns by providing robust security features, including data encryption, access controls, and auditing capabilities. It ensures data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance with regulations, instilling trust and confidence in users.
Data Security and Governance: With the increasing importance of data privacy and compliance, organizations need robust security and governance measures to protect sensitive information. Teradata Vantage addresses these concerns by providing robust security features, including data encryption, access controls, and auditing capabilities. It ensures data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance with regulations, instilling trust and confidence in users.
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.
Teradata proven and reliable platform for Bi and analytics
What do you like best about the product?
One of the best data warehousing solutions in the world with MPP architecture. It has all great capabilities, operational intelligence, large scale integration across all cloud environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Inability to easo increase the size of onprem environment
Queries used to search is a bot complex and difficult. It doesn't have a data prediction algorithm its much needed
Queries used to search is a bot complex and difficult. It doesn't have a data prediction algorithm its much needed
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Performance reliability sophisticated workload mangament
Efficient connectivity to naive object storage
Ability to perform parallel data processing by teradata
Efficient connectivity to naive object storage
Ability to perform parallel data processing by teradata
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).
Teradata Vantage: A Game-Changing Platform for Data Analytics and Management
What do you like best about the product?
Vantage is its ability to handle complex queries on massive datasets, making it ideal for organizations dealing with large volumes of data. Teradata Vantage supports a wide range of data types and data sources, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. This allows us to leverage data from various sources to gain valuable insights and make informed decisions.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can have a steep learning curve for users who are new to the system or who lack experience with advanced data analytics tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Teradata Vantage is designed to address many of the common challenges that organizations face when working with large amounts of data. These challenges can include:
Data silos: Many organizations have data stored in various formats and locations, creating silos that make it difficult to access and analyze data.
Slow query performance: As datasets grow, traditional database systems can struggle to keep up with the demands of complex queries, leading to slow query performance and inefficient data analysis.
Lack of scalability: Traditional database systems can be limited in terms of scalability, making it difficult to handle large volumes of data and to support growing business needs.
Teradata Vantage solves these problems by providing a comprehensive data analytics platform that can handle complex queries on massive datasets quickly and efficiently. It can also integrate data from various sources and types, allowing organizations to break down data silos and gain a more holistic view of their data. Teradata Vantage offers scalability, allowing us to handle growing volumes of data and support evolving business needs without experiencing slowdowns or performance issues.
Data silos: Many organizations have data stored in various formats and locations, creating silos that make it difficult to access and analyze data.
Slow query performance: As datasets grow, traditional database systems can struggle to keep up with the demands of complex queries, leading to slow query performance and inefficient data analysis.
Lack of scalability: Traditional database systems can be limited in terms of scalability, making it difficult to handle large volumes of data and to support growing business needs.
Teradata Vantage solves these problems by providing a comprehensive data analytics platform that can handle complex queries on massive datasets quickly and efficiently. It can also integrate data from various sources and types, allowing organizations to break down data silos and gain a more holistic view of their data. Teradata Vantage offers scalability, allowing us to handle growing volumes of data and support evolving business needs without experiencing slowdowns or performance issues.
User friendly experience
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use and navigate, it's resourceful and helpful in data analytics.
What do you dislike about the product?
the interface, UI/UX designs can be improved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
the ease of storing data and collecting all the information required at one place is really benefitting for the company, yes the business performance was increased by using it
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