Mumbai: Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), and SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) have announced a technology partnership agreement to deliver analytical solutions to targeted industries with high data-volume requirements, including telecommunications, financial services, pharmaceuticals and aerospace and defense. Companies in these high data-volume industries will be able to easily integrate enterprise analytical solutions, resulting in faster time-to-market, lower total cost of ownership and improved business efficiencies.

As part of the agreement, Teradata also becomes an SAP Global Technology Partner.

According to Bill McDermott, chief executive officer and president, SAP America, Inc. "The enterprise analytics market is significant for SAP, and our relationship with Teradata will enhance our position in this market by providing customers with scalable and closely integrated, industry-focused analytical solutions that deliver superior business functionality, performance and economic value." This relationship is important for SAP because it provides us with a platform that has exceptional price-performance value and will satisfy our customers' growing data-volume needs as well as analytic complexity across targeted industries."

Teradata will be combining the best of its analytic applications portfolio and platform with SAP's deep industry knowledge and leading business software solutions, powered by SAP NetWeaver™, the open integration and application platform designed to drive lower total cost of ownership across heterogeneous information technology landscapes. Through tightly integrated interoperability between Teradata's enterprise data warehouse products and SAP NetWeaver, joint customers will have access to Teradata's scalable enterprise analytic capabilities fully integrated with SAP NetWeaver. Customers can enjoy Teradata's analytic capabilities combined with the industry-leading business intelligence capabilities of SAP NetWeaver.

"Teradata sees this partnership as a way to link our enterprise analytics expertise, applications and capabilities with SAP's worldwide leading business solutions," says Amrish Rau, Business Manager, India, Teradata. "This agreement will result in improved integration that mutual customers have been requesting, allowing them to make better decisions from an integrated view of customers and operations."

Both companies are also contributing engineering and technical resources and assets, as well as consulting capabilities.

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software solutions, which are designed to meet the demands of companies from small and midsize businesses to global enterprises. More than 21,600 customers in over 120 countries run over 69,700 installations of SAP software. With subsidiaries in more than 50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP."

Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), is the global leader in enterprise data warehousing and enterprise analytic technologies and services.

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 solutions that maximize the value of customer interactions. NCR is based in Dayton, Ohio.