Teradata Room for Improvement

MartinPotgieter - PeerSpot reviewer
Services Manager at Bytes Systems Integration

The setup is not straightforward.

I would like Teradata to get involved in South Africa. They aren't doing aggressive promotion of Teradata systems in South Africa. They really should.

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SurjitChoudhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Data engineer at Cocos pt

Teradata is an expensive tool. Like, if you're already using Microsoft products like Windows, they'll market all their products together. And with the rise of cloud technologies, companies will adopt solutions that offer them some privileges or facilities. 

Similar to how SAP does it in the market, so do Microsoft and other companies.  Even Oracle and other such tools are quite commonly seen compared to Teradata's competitors in everyday solutions.

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AM
Data Engineer III at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The market is enhancing, and every day, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, and all these competitors are moving very, very fast. They're bringing out many new features. For example, Snowflake now has Time Travel and cloning and all these very interesting features. Teradata is an old data warehouse, and they're not improving in terms of new, innovative features. Basically, they're pretty much consistent and unchanging. They're not bringing new features. I've been working with it for eight years, and I have not seen so many new features. Maybe there have been only one or two in the last eight years. Innovation is something that is a bit slow with respect to Teradata. Other competitors are better in terms of new innovations. I'd like to see Teradata add features like cloning or time travel.

There is a query tool. However, we need to install the tool in order to fetch records. With other data warehouses, they have a web-based tool that allows for queries without having to download.

The initial setup is not too easy.

When we want to scale, we need to go to Teradata to initiate the process. 

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MedhaValvekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Manager at Cognizant

Teradata is good, but eventually, my company is moving to a higher-level system. You wouldn't want to work on a lower-level system.

As for the areas for improvement in Teradata, since I was working on the very basic, legacy systems, the memory thing was always a challenge. If Teradata is moving to the cloud, the space constraint or the memory issue that my company generally faces will eventually resolve, in time.

What I'd like to see in the next release of Teradata is that it becomes full-fledged on the cloud, apart from better connectivity to various systems. For example, if I have to read or include a Python script, if I write some basic codes, I should be able to read even unstructured data. I know that it's not supported even in Snowflake, but at least semi-structured data support, if that can be a little more enhanced, that would be good.

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Blaine VandeBerg - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal at Insight Data Consulting

I've been using the same UI for 20 years in Teradata. It could use some updating. Adding more stability around Teradata Studio would be outstanding. Teradata Studio is a Java-based version of their tool. It's much better now, but it still has some room for improvement.

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JP
Data warehouse consultant at Profinit

I'd like to see a better relationship with the business itself. Business users have trouble finding solutions when they run into issues in the data warehouse.

It can be a bit complex to work with.

Regarding data warehousing, I'd like to see more data and business analysis to help with the design and development. 

It's primarily designed for big projects and therefore, the pricing is pretty high. It's not suitable for smaller companies. 

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AO
Operations Lead at a retailer with 201-500 employees

Teradata is a bit late for the cloud. They maybe need to have some room for cloud improvements.

Scalability is limited on-premises. 

The solution could use more AI support.

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SD
Test Engineer at cigniti

Apart from Control-M, it would be nice if it could integrate with other tools. Specifically, with respect to the integrations with the automation tools, if that can be increased, and if the tester could be able to test more automation scripts in a better way it would help. The efficiency could always be increased.

Occasionally, at the outset of the implementation process, we struggled a little bit.

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BS
Solution Architect at Capgemini

In our experience with Teradata, we haven't seen any significant weaknesses. However, when it comes to scalability, limited interest and success in some areas make us hesitate about upgrading. In the future, I would like to see Teradata incorporate features that allow it to handle unstructured data. Additionally, improvements in documentation to make it more user-friendly and up-to-date would enhance the overall user experience.

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Rupal Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Architect at Three Ireland (Hutchison) - Infrastructure

Sometimes the large ingestion jobs takes days to load data, and some of our stored procedures take longer. I don't know whether it's the tool or the network, but it takes a long time to execute complex commands.

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Al Krause - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at advanced business horizons

Any value this product provides is offset by the high cost and lack of scalability. We're moving to Snowflake because of the scalability and cost differentials. There are better, more flexible, robust, and economical options out there.

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MG
Vice President IT Architecture at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

One issue we've identified is that its performance varies across different on-premises setups and doesn't consistently meet our standards. This limitation necessitates the purchase of Teradata's proprietary hardware to ensure the desired level of performance. The capability to implement it with comparable performance across various private cloud environments, ensuring adaptability to different infrastructure setups would be beneficial.

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Asish Sahu - PeerSpot reviewer
SPM at Infosys

Teradata can improve the way it handles big data and unstructured data.

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AhmedAdel4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product owner at Future Work

The current operational approach needs improvement. In the past, relying on infrastructure data staging provided flexibility in collaborating with any database provider. However, transitioning to Informatica and integrating it with various data services proved beneficial for serving multiple clients. Despite its advantages, this approach incurred substantial costs in terms of hardware and technical expertise. To address this, there is a need to develop and offer free content and workshops, providing guidelines and technical knowledge for efficient data operation.

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NV
Business Intelligence Project Leader at NOUX C.A.

Teradata's pricing is quite high compared to Redshift, Synapse, or GCP alternatives. In the next release, I would like Teradata to refine their Object Store to be more compatible with cloud environments.

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MS
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution could improve by having a cloud version or a cloud component. We have to use other solutions, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Snowflake for the cloud.

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Tejas Talele - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Teradata could improve by being less complicated. There are some aspects that are not available on the Unix server and a Unix system is required to access some data, such as in case of an emergency.

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Anton Van Heerden - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at DNA Payroll Outsourcing

An area that needs improvement is the cloud-based version of the solution because it's designed for on-prem and then transferred to the cloud version. Teradata needs to pay attention to the cloud-based solution to make sure it runs smoothly. In the next release, I would like Teradata to be cloud-agnostic in order to not limit customers' choices.

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NT
Data Engineer at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees

Teradata hardly supports unstructured data or semi-structured data. Teradata is very costly, and it's not easy to upgrade or expand the components in Teradata. A lot of infrastructure needs to be set up in order to use Teradata.

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MR
Sr. Data Management Specialist at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Teradata's UI could be improved.

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Rajdeep Biswas - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect - Sr. Manager at Axtria - Ingenious Insights

Teradata's UI could be more user-friendly.

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