Teradata Corporation the world’s largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics, has been rated the leader in the global data warehousing DBMS server market, based on the Gartner Server Evaluation Model (SEM) Version 6 December 2009, just released. The evaluation model assesses data warehouse database management system (DBMS) server performance across multiple dimensions. The document is used as a reference by business and technology decision makers, and is considered valuable in developing data warehouse acquisition strategies.

Teradata regards its leadership position in the evaluation as significant for chief information officers (CIO) considering investments in data warehousing, because server query performance and manageability are key criteria for companies seeking a competitive business edge. Teradata believes its scores reflect product performance that differentiates its purpose built platform family in the global market. Enterprise analytics, driven by a Teradata system, have been shown to provide measurable competitive advantage.

“When Teradata data warehouse products are compared to competing systems and platforms from other vendors, as our servers were in this detailed evaluation, Teradata is consistently rated the best,” said Randy Lea, vice president, products and service, Teradata. “This evaluation is so deeply detailed that CIOs will likely find it more illuminating than anything else they read, in view of the intensity of competing claims showing up across the data warehousing marketplace. The continued leadership of Teradata indicates that our investments and innovation have continued to outpace our competition. Moreover, our scores again this year in many sub-categories validate that Teradata systems represent a sound, reliable business investment that provides great performance payback over the years.”