Teradata platform continuously captures and integrates detailed data from a growing number of business programs and subsidiaries across Europe, Asia and Africa. The system includes software and hardware and is supported by Teradata professional services.

Teradata claims that for more than a decade, the Teradata platform has supported Metro’s thought leadership in managing and leveraging complex information for deep business visibility and enterprise-class insight. Metro relies on it to collect and analyze a wide variety of detailed data to create powerful intelligence for decision support as well as financial reporting and customer management.

Heinz Boeck, CEO of Metro Group Information Technology, said: As our international data warehouse has been growing country by country, Teradata’s highly scalable technology has proven to be of great business value, providing high performance under very demanding business circumstances. Teradata reliably handles growing data volumes while supporting mixed workloads and many concurrent users.