Banque Accord, a provider of payment services and consumer credit, has selected the Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse, a member of the Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family, to launch its company-wide business intelligence initiative. Teradata Professional Services will assist in technology architecture implementation of the data warehouse.

The competitive review and benchmark included tests of software and hardware scalability, workload management, high query performance, SAS and Informatica integration and the database administration.

Phillippe Eymond, head of information management at Banque Accord, said: After a competitive review of proposals from key data warehousing vendors, we turned to Teradata to provide a single source of data to support strategic and operational decision making. Teradata is the proven leader in enterprise intelligence for global financial services and can respond to our unique needs.

Eric Jouli, vice president of Western Europe and president of Teradata France, said: Data from throughout the bank will be integrated in the active enterprise data warehouse and will provide a global view of banking services, customers and operations for better, faster decision making. In an ultra-competitive environment, Banque Accord knows that leveraging data to gain a clear view of its business is a key differentiator.