Teradata expands presence with new office opening in Riyadh

Teradata Corp., the analytic data platforms, marketing applications and services company, has announced the establishment of Teradata Saudi Arabia LLC to strengthen its commitment to current and prospective customers and channel partners in Saudi Arabia.
The announcement was made at a half-day opening celebration that brought leading business and technical professionals together with senior representatives from Teradata to learn about the latest innovations from Teradata as well as the company’s strategic direction and plans for operations in the Kingdom.
From its new base in Saudi Arabia, Teradata will extend its industry-leading portfolio of analytics, data warehousing and marketing applications solutions to help enterprises across the Kingdom to drive greater value from big data, increase business profitability and performance with data analytics technology, better understand and leverage the role of big data science within specific industries.
“Driven by ambitious government plans to boost economic diversity and social development across the nation, as well as exciting transformation in the business environment, Saudi Arabia represents a market of huge opportunities. By establishing Teradata Saudi Arabia LLC, Teradata aims to help public and private-sector enterprises better manage and analyse these vast amounts of data derived from the internet, social networks and mobile devices to create efficient data-driven businesses that power performance, efficiency and customer retention strategies,” said Eric Joulie, VP, South Europe and Middle East and Africa, Teradata Corporation.
Jamil Jeitani, MD, Teradata Saudi Arabia LLC, said: “We are immensely happy to establish operations in Saudi Arabia, as this brings us closer to our customers and partners and gives us the opportunity to contribute to one of the most rapidly developing economies in the world. We look forward to deeper engagement with customers from both the public and private sectors, and across multiple industries.”