Teradata Corporation has announced the Teradata Developer Exchange, a web site which supports a thriving and dynamic online data warehouse development community. It connects Teradata engineers, customers, partners and academics who are building and deploying solutions based on the market-leading Teradata platforms and database.

“The Teradata Developer Exchange is the cornerstone of the social network for Teradata technology experts worldwide. It has been designed for a digital community, which is seeking a way to share ideas, code samples, and solutions to problems,” said Todd Papaioannou, vice president, architecture and emerging technologies, Teradata Corporation. “The innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of the world’s leading developers and programmers who are using Teradata can be unleashed resulting in breakthrough insights.”

The Teradata Developer Exchange is a general source for learning and helps Teradata users get answers to very specific and immediate questions. The collaborative, shared environment provides participants the place to help others, make comments, rate articles, blog and discuss relevant issues. Visitors to the web site will also find programming code samples provided by Teradata customers, business partners, and Teradata Professional Services.

According to Papaioannou, “The Teradata Developer Exchange is unlike other vendors’ technical web sites, which broadcast outbound marketing messages to customers. The Teradata Developer Exchange encourages customers’ programmers and data warehouse architects to make direct contact with the Teradata engineers who created a specific product. In addition, customer developers are also able to communicate directly with other customers. This communication and collaboration will result in better data warehouse implementations.”

Teradata anticipates that thousands of global users will explore the topics to be found on the site, some of which include: connecting data warehouses with portals and web sites, campaign management leveraging Web services, Web 2.0 interfaces, real-time performance, revving up executive dashboards, optimizing partner products for Teradata, cutting costs with data compression, Java inside the data warehouse, working with Linux, mission critical data warehouses, loading data in real time and open source extract and load. Teradata’s global developers and engineers will continually provide new content and blogs on timely topics.

Teradata customers, partners, employees and third parties can register at http://developer.teradata.com/.