OIL & GAS

SEATTLE--Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR), announced that its enterprise data warehouse and analytic solutions have been selected by The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America to drive revenue growth by enhancing service for Guardian's nearly three million insurance and investment services clients and five million employee benefit program participants. "Teradata's cost-effective solutions provide Guardian with a new and important level of business intelligence by putting the right information in the hands of all decision makers, helping them to increase revenue growth, productivity and to identify new customer service opportunities," said Bill Sinn, vice president, Teradata insurance and healthcare marketing. "The Teradata system provides insurers a new level of business intelligence. It enables executives to solve the business problems of how to increase revenue, reduce expenses and identify new customer service opportunities." "We chose Teradata because their solutions will allow us to build an integrated information infrastructure that empowers business intelligence use across the firm, reduces costs, improves our efficiency and enhances system performance," said Dennis Callahan, executive vice president and chief information officer of Guardian. "The strategic business benefit of migrating to a new central, enterprise-wide data warehouse is the improved business analysis that will provide us with a 'big-picture' view of our business. This integrated view is very difficult to obtain with disparate platforms, applications and databases."