Teradata & EDS win Customs security deal

Stan Beer
Thursday, 29 September 2005 10:00

IT Industry - Deals

Teradata, the high speed number crunching division of NCR, and IT outsourcer EDS have won a contract with the Australian Customs Service  to provide a passenger analysis system to improve service and security at Australian border points.

The new Teradata system, to be implemented by EDS, will be based on a data warehouse solution. Customs required a very high-speed, stable solution and sophisticated analytics processes. Teradata won the deal following a competitive tender. In addition, the sale comprises two NCR 5400 servers as the production system, two NCR 4980 servers for disaster recovery, a development node plus a maintenance support service package over a five-year period.

The proposed solution was designed to ingest historical and continuous amounts of data, and conduct the complex analytics necessary to interpret it and trigger immediate action. Features offered by the Teradata system include: the ability to continually query whilst loading data to support real time updates; the ability to search across any field, any record at any time; strong security; and, minimal ongoing administration and support with 99.9% availability.

'Working on this project is a proud validation of our core competency in this area, as the consequences of failure demand that the solution must work,' said Julian Beavis, vice president, Australia and New Zealand, Teradata.  'We are looking forward to a successful partnership with Australian Customs to ensure we meet their needs for passenger profiling into the future.'