Tera-Tom here!  There is software you get rid of, software you keep, and software you buy right now.  Software that only works on one vendor’s platform is obsolete in today’s multi-vendor environment, so get rid of it.  If you have software that the users love, then keep it.  If you want software that is the…

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Tera-Tom here!  What weapon was deemed so powerful by the experts of the day that it was thought to end all war because it gave such an advantage to whomever possessed it?  It was the crossbow!  What weapon of today is thought to be so powerful that it will give an unfair advantage to any…

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Tera-Tom here! The Garden of Analysis is a paradise for business users after they receive an answer set. By merely dragging and dropping answer set columns to simple templates, the business user can analyze and build hundreds of reports without ever leaving their desktop.   Victor Hugo once said, “An invasion of Armies can be…

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Tera-Tom here!  According to Safari, the top online eBook site in the world, eight books from the Tera-Tom series are in the top 500 books viewed worldwide for the month of July.  Six of the books are Teradata, but two of them are Netezza books.  The books entitled, “The Brilliance of Netezza” and “Netezza SQL”…

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Coffing Data Warehousing is now offering their Nexus Enterprise Software on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as an annual subscription on AWS Marketplace  In addition to hourly pricing, annual pricing on AWS Marketplace provides another flexible, scalable option for companies who enjoy the features and capabilities of Nexus Enterprise Software and want the freedom of annual…

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Tera-Tom here!  Imagine you are the CEO of your own business, and you were given an opportunity to partner with any other company in the world.  Who would you choose?  I would choose Amazon, and that is exactly what we did.  I am excited to announce that Coffing Data Warehousing and Amazon have officially teamed…

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Tera-Tom here!  The most successful companies educate their employees and then reap the benefits for years to come.  If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.  The secret is to provide the best education in the world, make it self-paced, fascinating, and fun. Employees really appreciate upgrading their skills and understanding how to be the…

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Tera-Tom here!  Isaac Newton changed the world when he brought us the concept of gravity and once said, “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.”  The real gravity of big data is that there are no bigger giants than Teradata, Netezza, and Hadoop.  Each…

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Tera-Tom here!  Did you ever think you would be querying Excel spreadsheets or joining them to production tables?  That time is now.  I am excited to announce the latest release of Nexus now has support for Excel, Aster Data, and enhanced Hadoop capabilities. One of the interesting changes of direction is from Teradata.  Even they…

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Tera-Tom here!  Almost everyone has played the board game Monopoly.  Is your vendor trying to play data warehouse Monopoly? The salesperson starts the Monopoly game by rolling into your office, and telling you that their new hardware is twice as fast as the old system. It is your turn to move next, and that move…

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Tera-Tom here!  Goldman Sachs, the world’s largest investment bank, recently downgraded Teradata stock to “Sell”.  According to Goldman Sachs analyst Greg Dunham, they’ve lowered their revenue growth estimate from 8% to 4%, and have adjusted Teradata’s price target from $48 per share to $36 per share for 2014.  The share price of Teradata has dropped…

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Tera-Tom here!  CoffingDW is at it again, shaking up the industry and forming new partnerships. I am very happy to announce CoffingDW will soon offer our Nexus Enterprise Software on the Amazon Cloud. This will give companies and users who have never tried Nexus before the ability to harness the power of the Nexus without…

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Tera-Tom here!  Your CIO is one of the most important individuals in your company, and yet with the computer industry’s sudden paradigm shift, nobody is under more pressure.  Your company leaders are looking for: A way to integrate Hadoop with every platform in the enterprise. An enterprise desktop tool that can provide cross-functionality across platforms.…

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Tera-Tom here! Only once in a lifetime do you have a year like I had in 2013.   I wrote 13 books, which are now available on the 27 top e-book sites in the world.  I trained over 25 different companies on all aspects of Teradata, Aster Data, and Netezza.  My executive team developed official partnerships…

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Coffing Data Warehousing (CoffingDW), a leading data warehousing solutions provider, today announced a new OEM agreement with CA Technologies, integrating CA ERwin® Data Modeler into their Nexus Query Chameleon solution so that organizations can generate and optimize SQL code with the benefit of visual models. CoffingDW’s Nexus Query Chameleon, powered by CA ERwin modeling software,…

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Tera-Tom here!  Have you ever considered how important it is to model your data?  Companies model their data for the same reason that Boeing builds model planes and wind tunnels!  They can be inexpensively tested and altered.  Modeling your business is monumental, but doing so in a timely manner is also important.  As we like…

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Tera-Tom here!  Steve Jobs was once challenged with how he was going to deal with a competitor called Sony.  He remarked, “No problem.  Sony is a hardware company.  Apple is a software company.  It’s all about the software!” Who in the world could have imagined that IBM, Oracle, and Teradata’s stock could head south so…

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Tera-Tom here! Aster Data started as an idea from Ph.D students attending Stanford University:  Commodity hardware that was scalable with advanced analytics capabilities on ungodly amounts of data.  After proven success, Teradata decided to buy them for $232 Million!  You might say they got an A+ on their final.  Now that I have been teaching…

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Tera-Tom here!  I am pleased to announce a strategic alliance with one of the most exciting computer companies in the modern era.  That company is Kognitio.  Their in-memory technology is shaking up the industry faster than lightning because their technology is all about queries being faster than lightning.  Kognitio is not here to replace your…

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