Teradata Reviews

We resell Teradata, but not in the cloud.

Currently, our experience with Teradata in the cloud is theoretical as we haven't started selling it to our customers yet; however, a few of our customers are interested in migrating to a cloud-based solution.

Our clients use Teradata to consolidate corporate data to provide reports. These reports are required every day — it's more like described analytics.

Our customers are very happy with the configuration. It's a pre-configured appliance that requires very little in terms of setting-up. 

It could use some more advanced analytics relating to structured and semi-structured data. In other words, there should be a process that makes advanced analytics easier.

The integration capabilities could be improved.

They should improve their marketing to make it easier to sell to customers.

I have been using Teradata for roughly five years.

Stability-wise, I don't recall any of our customers having a problem with Teradata. They have never mentioned any issues relating to bugs or glitches.

There are a few options that are very interesting related to the cloud. You can go into the same environment and add more nodes throughout it. As I mentioned, we don't have much experience with Teradata on the cloud, but I think it's the way of the future.

Their technical support is great. On a scale from one to ten, I would give them a rating of ten.

The initial setup is very easy.

Deployment takes a couple of weeks.

I would definitely recommend Teradata to other interested companies. It's really easy to use thanks to the simple configuration.

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give Teradata a rating of ten.

On-premises

We use this solution as a simple repository for all of the data that comes from multiple sources related to our organization. It has financial data, transactional data, customer complaint data, as well as customer feedback data. All of these are collected from different systems and they are consolidated for viewing within our management dashboards or for use in other analytics.

The most valuable feature is the ease of uploading data from multiple sources.

It performs well both in terms of speed and reliability.

It is hard for some of our users to set up rules for cleansing and transforming data, so this is something that could be improved. This is necessary because the data that comes from different sources has different formatting, and sometimes there is duplication. This means that some degree of transformation is required.

I would like to see more options for visualization so that the data can be better presented to management.

I have been using Aster Data Map Reduce for about two years.

For all of our users, this solution has been stable. It performs well.

In terms of scale, our data is not very big but we have have not encountered any problems with respect to scalability. We have between 30 and 40 users.

I have never been in touch with technical support.

While the initial setup can be complex, we are fine with it. It took us perhaps two or three days to deploy.

My team handled the deployment but I was not personally involved with it.

One or two people are required for maintenance, depending on their availability.

Before choosing this product we looked at both Apache and a solution from IBM. Ultimately, our team felt that this was more suitable for us.

My advice to anybody who is considering this solution would be to opt for the cloud version, rather than deploy on-premises. It is a better option.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Our primary use case for Teradata is reporting. I am a business analyst and I use this solution to first analyze my data and then visualize it. 

The most valuable feature is the ease of running queries. 

Automation is very important to us.

To run our reports I have to upload data from past tables and it is always a problem, so there is a lot of room for improvement there. It just struggles when I have to load data and I would like to see better file processing power.

I have seen instability in automation when working with very large datasets.

Technical support needs improvement.

I was been using Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse for three years.

Stability-wise, we have had some issues with automation and the ability to handle large datasets. 

We have approximately 800 people using this solution. We are not planning to increase usage at this time. In fact, we may be shifting to a different storage or different data warehouse.

I have contacted Teradata technical support lots of times. I would rate them a two out of five. They do not solve the problem, most of the time.

This solution was set up by our technical person.

We evaluated Microsoft SQL Server as a trial version and we thought that we preferred Teradata.

My advice for anybody who is considering this solution is first to look into the availability of customer support and make sure that it can be done. Teradata customer support in India is very bad. This is my main complaint.

Fixing the problems that I have mentioned would make this a great tool.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

Private Cloud

We are only consultants, so we don't use the program ourselves. 

Our customers are very impressed by Teradata's speed, because it's massively parallel processed. So you can get a great volume of data through quickly.

What really needs to improve, is their general cloud services. That is their biggest downfall at the moment. 

Teradata is a really stable program.

The scalability of Teradata is extremely poor, unfortunately.

Because we are only consultants, we never use the technical support. Only our clients do.

On a scale from one to ten, I will rate Teradata a seven. An additional feature I would like to see included in the next release is that it needs to be more cloud-friendly. That's the one thing they're going to lose customers over, so that needs to improve. I know they're working on it, but they need to do it quicker. 

On-premises

We currently use the on-prem model of this solution. Our primary use case of this solution is as an enterprise tech warehouse for business intelligence across different domains. 

We've been using Teradata for close to twenty years and this version is a lot faster and more improved than the previous version that we used. It gives us more. It gives us the ability to be more resilient. It has fallback on default. We always have a copy of the copied data. There's more resilience and from a banking perspective, that is a good thing. 

Having continual fallback is good for security. We use the standard TTU utilities. That's what we use with all the different versions. It's faster and more resilient. 

They should add more connectors to different platforms. 

It could use a more powerful CPU and a faster IO. 

I have been using this solution for the last twenty years. We upgraded to the version we are currently using in December.

It is very stable. It's 100% uptime. Speed and resilience are one of the greatest features of this product. In almost twenty years we've never had downtime, except for outages for patches and upgrades. We've never had a system failure in twenty years. 

Its scalability is first class. We can easily add more nodes to it. We have around three to four thousand users. 

We have 100 people maintaining different applications. We don't currently have major plans to increase usage.

Their technical support is excellent. If you have a P1 you call within the hour. 

The initial setup was straightforward. We didn't have any problems installing the new platform. The deployment took six months. 

We implemented it ourselves. 

We didn't evaluate other options because we've been using Teradata for 20 years. We update versions. 

It's an excellent product. It's tried and tested with large organizations. The on-prem product is very powerful. Teradata has a cloud option. Both are good options. It depends on what your organizational plans are. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. 

We primarily use the solution to store data.

The solution is the Rolls-Royce of data warehousing. Because of the way it's been developed, and the parallel processing, there's no other system in the world that can touch it. I don't think it's there yet, but if you're using Tableau, it's much more user-friendly when you want to start reporting. On Teradata, I think there are some improvements that need to be done because you still have to be an expert to understand PDCR.

The reporting side wasn't very good in the past, but with the latest versions, it's getting better. Still, the friendliness of the PDC reporting and functionality needs to be improved. 

I have 11 years of experience with Teradata.

The stability is incredible.

IntelliFlex is very scalable. In fact, scalability has improved 100 times by IntelliFlex, in my personal opinion. Many large scale companies in South Africa are using it.

Everything is in a controlled environment and you've got tools where you can log calls, and prioritize the issues. Everything is clearly defined from the start so there's minimal downtime. The Teradata system is so redundant that if something goes wrong, the client won't even pick up on it; the part can be replaced and the system won't even be offline because almost everything is swap-able.

There is also Teradata University, and a lot of tutorials you can do for training. It's all very professional.

I was in the SAP environment for many years and moved away from that to focus on Teradata.

Teradata is very professional when it comes to the way they handle installations. They work according to a trans-control process, so every installation that has been done or installed by Teradata is pre-approved by technical experts.

Once the product is pre-approved, we will install it according to a trans-control process, and anything that we do regardless of the system is being recorded by the lease management. Going forward, everybody knows what exactly is happening on the system, including what the latest releases of any firmware on the system are. It's a controlled environment.

We used a consultant for implementation.

We use the on-premises version of the solution.

I would recommend Teradata IntelliFlex. There's not a better solution on the market. It's one of the best data warehouses you can find.

I would rate the solution ten out of ten.

We implement Teradata in financial sectors, which include banks in India and Canada.

Technically, it has made data processing much faster than other SMP databases.

The most valuable features are the Shared-nothing architecture and data protection functionality.

The user interface needs to be improved.

The price needs to be more competitive as Hadoop, Redshift, Snowflake, etc are constantly making way into EDW space.

Eleven years.

Our primary use case for this solution is the Transparency Portal of the Brazilian Government. Teradata provides the database infrastructure for this analytical site that is able to create an online BI experience that provides details on how the Brazilian government spends public money.

Teradata has allowed us to provide an online BI solution that no other player was able to do.

The feature that we find most valuable is its ability to perform Massive Parallel Processing.

I would like to see an improved Knowledge Base on the web.

Three to five years.

There are two million queries per day and an average of eight hundred concurrent users during working hours.