Teradata Vantage - very good choice
Updated March 01, 2024

Teradata Vantage - very good choice

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
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Software Version

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Modules Used

  • Teradata Clearscape Analytics
  • Vantage Console
  • Teradata Viewpoint
  • VantageCloud Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with Teradata Vantage

Teradata Vantage is used as an integrated Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that consolidates data from major systems in the company. Both batch and real-time (CDC, Kafka) integration patterns are used to load data into EDW. EDW has three standard layers - acquisition, integration, access. Transformations from acquistion to integration layer (and from integration to access) are implemented in database using SQL capabilities (ELT). EDW supports major analytical processes in the company - reporting, campaign management, fraud detection, customer value management. EDW also serves as one of the data sources for AI and maching learning activities.
  • strong SQL capabilities with many in-database functions
  • workload managment
  • support for temporal tables (time travel)
  • Teradata Studio - client tool for SQL developers and database administrators
  • automated performance tunning based on the system metadata
  • customer churn reduction

Do you think Teradata Vantage delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Teradata Vantage's feature set?

Yes

Did Teradata Vantage live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Teradata Vantage go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Teradata Vantage again?

Yes

Teradata Vantage provides strong analytical capabilities for structured data that offers excellent performance even on very large data sets. Besides the traditional block storage Teradata offers other kinds of data storage that can be used in specific cases, e.g. columnar and object storage (NOS). Rich set of in-database analytical functions allows analysts to effectively get insights from data inluding machine learning capabilities.

Teradata Vantage Feature Ratings

Using Teradata Vantage

80 - Reporting - managerial, operational, performance, financial, etc.Campaign Managment - EDW supports two major campaign management applications (UNICA - batch campaigns, Bloomreach - real-time campaings). Customer Value Management - advanced analytics to measure and optimize value of the customer baseCustomer Experience - customer journey analysisRevenue AssuranceCommissionsArtifical Intelligence Center
25 - Data Architets
Data Engineers
Data Analysts
  • Reporting
  • Customer Value Management
  • Campaign Management
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Customer Journey Analytics
  • Machine Learning using in-database functions
  • Path Analysis using NPATH function
Teradata is a mature RDBMS system that expands its functionality towards the current cloud capabilities like object storage and flexible compute scale.

Using Teradata Vantage

Teradata Vantage provides advanced SQL capabilities to work with large-scale structured relational data and at the same time it is incorporating features that allow users to work with unstructured data using cloud capabilities.
ProsCons
Like to use
Easy to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Unnecessarily complex
Requires technical support
  • advanced SQL analytics using in-database functions
  • time travel using temporal feature
  • data offload to object storage using Native Object Store
  • Teradata client SQL tools