INDUSTRY

Top executives from Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR), will address customers, prospects and partners at Teradata's annual user conference, PARTNERS, in Las Vegas, Nev. at the end of this month. Teradata leaders will share the stage with industry analysts from leading firms such as Gartner, Meta Group, Forrester Research and Aberdeen Group. At the conference, Chief Technology Officer Stephen Brobst will cross the spectrum from technology to business solution strategies, touching on topics such as architected solutions for deployment of active warehouses as well as advanced decision support in the healthcare industry, among others. Continuing with his popular series, Director of E-marketing David Schrader will present "The Next 5 Big E-things -- the Sequel Continues." Chris Twogood, marketing vice president for Teradata, will address the need for data warehouse users to take the next logical step by adopting customer relationship management (CRM) across the enterprise, while Ron Swift, vice president of strategic customer relationships, will lead a Super Session on the popular topic of best practices for achieving profitability and success using data warehousing and CRM. Todd Walter, chief technical officer of Teradata's development organization, will discuss the technology of the active data warehouse, as well as give an overview of the Teradata database architecture. Allen Shay, head of Teradata operations at NCR Government Systems Corporation, will address homeland security during the government forum, one of seven industry forums with the others covering the communications, finance, retail, travel, manufacturing and insurance industries at the conference.