Teradata announced that The Timberland Company, a global leader in the wholesale and retail consumer goods industry, will implement an enterprise data warehouse from Teradata. Timberland designs, engineers and markets premium-quality footwear, apparel and accessories for consumers who value the outdoors and their time in it.
Timberland will leverage information from its new Teradata solution to drive increased visibility into its global sales and distribution channels to gain critical business insight useful in boosting brand leadership. The Teradata solution is composed of many components including hardware, software and services.
"Teradata's end-to-end data warehouse solution is an important part of our strategy to drive improvements in Timberland's business performance in the first half of 2008 and beyond," said Rosalee Hermens, vice president and chief information officer for Timberland. "Although our evaluation covered multiple solutions, we concluded that Teradata's vision aligned the most closely to ours while helping to establish our foundation for growth over Timberland's long-range plan."
Teradata is a proven leader in ensuring new data warehouse performance meets or exceeds the expectations of companies — delivering powerful scalability for companies on a rapid growth track with a strong business vision. Teradata's solutions enable business users on the analytical and transactional forefront to create actionable intelligence from complex, detailed data and make precise strategic and tactical decisions at the right moment.