DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2003--Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR), today announced it will resell the Hummingbird data integration tools as part of a worldwide reseller agreement. Teradata customers will now be able to consolidate disparate sources of operational information in a cost-effective manner and conduct high-performance data transformations within Teradata to enable faster analysis, resulting in better business decisions.

The reseller agreement is centered on Hummingbird ETL(TM) (Extract, Transfer and Load), formerly named Genio Suite. Teradata will also resell Hummingbird BI(TM), the business intelligence suite of tools.

Hummingbird ETL consolidates data from across the entire range of enterprise applications, operational systems and data marts to build enterprise data warehouses and integrate data for a single version of the truth across the enterprise.

"We use Hummingbird ETL to manage the entire data consolidation and transformation processes from our multiple data sources. Its ability to perform transformations on the Teradata engine is key to meeting our performance requirements. Maintenance has been greatly simplified since the whole ETL process is managed centrally and with comprehensive impact analysis," said Doug Olson, general manager and vice president of interactive media and information technology at Meredith Corporation. "We are very pleased at the prospect of an even closer integration between Teradata and Hummingbird."

In addition to performing transformations in the engine, Hummingbird ETL leverages Teradata's massively parallel processing architecture by executing transformations on the scalable Teradata Database Management System (DBMS). This approach of loading data before transforming it - known as ELT (extract, load, transform) - allows customers to maintain high performance as data volumes grow.

"To guarantee the success of our customers, it is essential that we have meaningful partnerships with vendors who integrate well with the Teradata platform," said Stephen Brobst, Teradata's chief technical officer. "The unique ELT approach used by Hummingbird has proven to be very effective in handling complex transformations at large volume with high performance by generating advanced SQL constructs for parallel execution inside the relational DBMS engine."

"Our partnership with Teradata goes back many years and we have long shared Teradata's industry-leading enterprise data warehousing philosophy," said Barry Litwin, president of Hummingbird Ltd. "We are very pleased to take this partnership to the next level and are committed to the long-term support of the Teradata platform for both data integration and business intelligence."

About Hummingbird Ltd.

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Hummingbird Ltd. (Nasdaq: HUMC, TSE: HUM), is a global enterprise software company employing 1,300 people in nearly 40 offices around the world. Hummingbird's revolutionary Hummingbird Enterprise(TM), an integrated information and knowledge management solution suite, manages the entire lifecycle of information and knowledge assets. Hummingbird Enterprise creates a 360-degree view of all enterprise content, both structured and unstructured data, with a portfolio of products that are both modular and interoperable. Today, five million users rely on Hummingbird to connect, manage, access, publish and search their enterprise content. For more information, please visit: http://www.hummingbird.com.

About Teradata Division

Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR), is the global leader in enterprise data warehousing and enterprise analytic technologies and services. For more information, visit www.teradata.com.

About NCR Corporation

NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR) is a leading global technology company helping businesses build stronger relationships with their customers. NCR's ATMs, retail systems, Teradata data warehouses and IT services provide Relationship Technology(TM) solutions that maximize the value of customer interactions. Based in Dayton, Ohio, NCR (www.ncr.com) employs approximately 30,100 people worldwide.

NCR and Teradata are trademarks or registered trademarks of NCR Corporation in the United States and other countries.

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