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Wal-Mart partners with NCR to triple size of its Data Warehouse; gains
competitive edge with new customer preferences data

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Date: Tuesday, February 11, 1997
Source: Business Wire
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DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE) via Individual Inc. --

Giant retailer's data warehouse to grow to 24 terabytes; order

includes Teredata RDBMS and 5100M WorldMark Servers

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has again partnered with NCR, the
world leader in data warehousing, to dramatically increase the size and
information analysis capabilities of its data warehouse by adding new
customer preferences data.

As part of the contract, the computer maker will supply one new NCR
WorldMark(TM) 5100M massively parallel processing (MPP) server and upgrade
a second installed NCR 5100M from 32 to 96 nodes. The contract also covers
NCR professional services, including database design, data transformation
and data management, as well as maintenance.

The two WorldMark 5100M servers -- running NCR's Teredata(TM) relational
database management system (RDBMS) -- will triple the size of Wal-Mart's
existing data warehouse from 7.5 terabytes to over 24 terabytes.

With the increased capacity, Wal-Mart retains its position of having the
`world's largest commercial data warehouse,' with more than 30 applications
running on the system and handling as many as 50,000 queries in one week.

"This expansion is part of Wal-Mart's drive to deliver what its customers
want: the right item, at the right store, at the right time and at the
right price," said Randy Mott, senior vice president and chief information
officer for Wal-Mart. "It's the ultimate form of customer service."

"Our business strategy depends on detailed data at every level," Mott
explained. "Every cost, every line item is carefully analyzed, enabling
better merchandising decisions to be made on a daily basis. It is the
foundation for maintaining Wal-Mart's competitive edge and its continuing
success in providing everyday low prices and superior customer
satisfaction."

That competitive edge and commitment to customer satisfaction is
underscored by the unique aspects in Wal-Mart's implementation. For
example, although Wal-Mart's data warehouse incorporates information on a
nationwide basis, that information can be tailored by store to allow
merchandise buyers to gain insight into local purchasing patterns.

"Our extended partnership with Wal-Mart is another significant milestone
for NCR," said Bill Eisenman, senior vice president of NCR's Computer
Systems Group. "It underscores NCR's commitment to customer service -- as
it does Wal-Mart's -- and NCR's expertise in building very large data
warehouses to support complex customer information and decision-support
systems."

Information stored in the data warehouse -- which is collected from the
retailer's 2,900 stores -- will be used to enhance Wal-Mart's decision
support system, particularly for the retailer's rapidly growing chain of
Supercenters and Wal-Mart International units. Using the 65 weeks of data
kept by item/by store/by day, Wal-Mart buyers and vendors can query and
analyze information to make informed decisions on replenishment, look at
customer buying trends around the world, analyze seasonal buying trends,
make mark-down decisions, and react to merchandise volume and movement at
any time.

The NCR WorldMark servers will be installed and upgraded by mid-97. One
system is configured with 32 nodes, 256 Pentium Pro 200 processors and 8
terabytes of storage; the second server will be upgraded to 96 nodes, 768
Pentium Pro 200 processors and 16 terabytes of storage.

About NCR's Solutions

NCR's large-scale data warehousing solutions consist of the WorldMark 5100M
server, NCR Teradata parallel processing relational database management
system (RDBMS), and comprehensive consulting service and support offerings
that are designed to help organizations analyze massive amounts of data to
create a competitive advantage.

The NCR Teradata RDBMS software architecture provides unmatched processing
power, scalability, connectivity and ease of administration required for
business-critical data warehouse applications.

About Wal-Mart

Well-known as the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart had annual revenues of
over $104.4 billion for the year ending Jan. 31, 1997, and has more than
2,900 stores and over 700,000 employees. Based in Bentonville, Arkansas, it
has pioneered concepts such as Supercenters and its SAM's Club, which is a
members-only shopping club that carries products at wholesale prices. A
highly successful offshoot of Wal-Mart's traditional retail stores, SAM's
Clubs comprise 20 percent of Wal-Mart's business.

More information about Wal-Mart can be found on the World Wide Web at:
http://www.wal-mart.com .

About NCR

NCR (NYSE: NCR) is the leader in delivering commercial open computer
systems for transaction processing and decision-support solutions to
customers in all industries. The company, with headquarters in Dayton,
Ohio, has 38,000 employees, including 20,000 service professionals in 1,100
locations and 130 countries. NCR solutions help improve businesses by
turing customer information into results, protecting existing information
technology investments, reducing risks and ensuring success.

More information on NCR can be found on the World Wide Web:
http://www.ncr.com . NCR WorldMark is a trademark and NCR Teradata RDBMS is
a registered trademark of NCR Corp. All other product names are trademarks
of their respective holders.

CONTACT: NCR Corp. | Kathy White, 803/939-6287 |
[email protected] | or | Edelman Worldwide | Elizabeth
Berglund, 212/704-4527 | [email protected]
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NCR Unveils Data Mining Solutions and Services; Announces Data Mining
Roadmap

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Date: Tuesday, May 6, 1997
Source: Business Wire
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DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE) via Individual Inc. -- - Leveraging Its Data
Warehouse Expertise, NCR Targets Solving Business Problems in Retail,
Financial and Communications Industries -

Taking the benefits of data warehousing to the next level, NCR today laid
out its data mining roadmap and announced a portfolio of products,
services, and partners to help companies in a variety of industries address
business problems like customer retention and demand forecasting.

The NCR Data Mining offerings strongly leverage NCR's experience gained in
the company's 14 years of building highly scalable data warehouses, having
built more than 550 data warehouses worldwide. The new offerings are part
of a roll out that extends until the summer of 1997.

"Leveraging the information in a company's data warehouse is what data
mining is all about," said Mark Hurd, vice president of Marketing for NCR's
Computer Systems Group. "We believe that the information in a company's
data warehouse should be treated as the valuable corporate resource that it
is. Data mining allows companies to leverage and extend their data
warehouses in order to provide maximum Return on Investment (ROI).
Approximately 75% of the work in data mining is building the warehouse
infrastructure to mine."

Data mining, or Knowledge Discovery, is the process of analyzing detailed
data to recognize patterns and extract and present actionable information
to solve business problems. An outgrowth of data warehousing, the data
mining process allows customers to increase their ROI on information in
their data warehouses and gain valuable insight to initiate competitive
actions.

Designed to be overlaid on the foundation of a well-designed and
implemented data warehouse - using NCR's Teradata(TM) RDBMS data warehouse
engine or merchant databases - these data mining solutions can be tailored
to help customers meet their own specific strategic business objectives:

New Programs

-- Business User Data Mining: This NCR data mining program allows
individuals or departmental users to leverage powerful data mining tools to
extend the value of their data warehouse. Designed for customers who
already have a data warehouse, the business user solutions provide a
cost-effective package of NCR software and services that enables users to
maximize the benefits of powerful data mining technologies. This offering
includes NCR and partner data mining tools and NCR data mining services.
Available today, the business user package pricing ranges from $10,000 to
$50,000.

-- Departmental Data Mining: Designed for data warehouse users with
specific departmental or functional business needs, NCR's departmental data
mining program includes selected NCR products, software and services that
allow departmental users to leverage the power of data mining technologies
at an affordable price. Available summer 1997, this offering includes: NCR
4300 WorldMark server; NCR and partner data mining tools; and NCR data
mining services. The departmental package pricing ranges from $150,000 to
$450,000.

-- Enterprise Data Mining: For customers with sophisticated enterprise data
mining needs, this NCR program integrates selected NCR products and
services with NCR's strategic partner capabilities to solve critical
business problems. The enterprise offering includes: NCR 5100 WorldMark
server; a choice of NCR or partner data mining tools; NCR data mining
services. Available today, the enterprise package pricing ranges from
$500,000 to $2 million.

"What distinguishes NCR is that we are the experienced leader in building
data warehouses with over 14 years of successful implementations," Hurd
said.

And, as part of its solutions, NCR also announced the availability of two
advanced business-user data mining tools: Knowledge Discovery Workbench
(KDW) and Management Discovery Tool (MDT). Working in close partnership
with Integral Solutions Limited (ISL) of Basingstoke, UK, NCR was able to
utilize ISL's leading edge technology in creating Knowledge Discovery
Workbench.

NCR is able to offer a wide range of data mining solutions in concert with
its partners, which include Angoss, HyperParallel, Knowledge Discovery One
(KD1), Quadstone, SABRE Decision Technologies, and SAS. NCR will continue
to assemble partners that represent the `best-of-breed' data mining
technology and provide solutions for customers to maintain a competitive
edge in their markets.

Among the companies benefiting from NCR's approach to data mining solutions
are: Barclays and Bank of America in the financial arena; JCPenney in the
retail industry; and AT&T Wireless, and U.S. West in the communications
industry; as well as customers in a variety of other industries, such as
AAFES (Army Air Force Exchange Service) and Qantas Airlines.

Building Industry Solutions

Using its data mining solutions and services as a foundation, NCR is
building industry-specific solutions. In the retail industry, NCR's
Neighborhood Retailing solutions provide retailers with the ability to
analyze data and uncover hidden buying patterns and spot and forecast
customer behavior. The retailing solutions use a number of leading
technologies, such as neural networking, predictive modeling, statistics,
clustering and adaptive systems.

In the financial industry, the Relationship Management System provides
analytical models and applications to help small, medium and large banks
gain an insight into their current and potential customers. NCR uses
best-of-breed tools and expertise from its Professional Services
organization to assist customers in developing and implementing these
business and analytical models in four critical areas: sales and marketing,
risk management, customer profitability and channel management.

And, in the communications industry, customers working with NCR are
developing applications under the auspices of three programs: Customer
Yield Management Solutions, Network Infrastructure Warehouse Solutions and
Web Mining.

Developed to enhance and increase the effectiveness of telco company
marketing programs, the Yield Management Solution helps customers address
business problems such as customer churn and product line profitability.
The Network Infrastructure Warehouse leverages NCR's data warehouse
concepts and methodologies to support communications service providers in
their network planning and analytical processes. Aimed at Internet Service
Providers (ISPs), the WebMining Program helps them engineer their network
resources and understand the behavioral patterns of customers and their use
of the Internet.

Data Mining Professional Services

NCR consultants are now delivering an integrated Professional Services
offering to address the challenges that customers face in the data
warehousing and data mining environment. Leveraging its strength in
designing and building data warehouses around the globe, NCR announced that
it is expanding its Professional Services expertise by incorporating data
mining into the NCR Data Warehouse Methodology. NCR's Professional Services
data mining capability focuses on providing systems integration expertise
in combination with strong data mining partnerships.

In addition, over the next several months, NCR will establish 'Advanced
Discovery Centers' in the Americas, Europe, and Asia/Pacific regions. By
fully leveraging NCR's broad skills and competencies these centers will
substantially lower the risk and cost of data mining to customers who wish
to explore the potential application of data mining technology in a
controlled environment.

The Advanced Discovery Centers will provide: proof of concept and
prototyping capabilities; access to a live test environment including
WorldMark(TM) hardware, Teradata(TM) RDBMS with partner and NCR data mining
tools; and data mining and data warehousing education. In addition, the
Advanced Discovery Centers will facilitate knowledge transfer; specific
data mining expertise provided by NCR Professional Services, NCR Parallel
Systems Engineering and NCR's data mining partners; and certification and
testing capabilities for tools.

About NCR

NCR (NYSE:NCR) is the leader in delivering commercial open computer systems
for transaction processing and decision-support solutions to customers in
all industries. The company, with headquarters in Dayton, Ohio, has 38,000
employees. NCR solutions help improve businesses by turning customer
information into results, protecting existing information technology
investments, reducing risks and ensuring success. More information about
NCR and its products and services can be found on the World Wide Web at:
http://www.ncr.com

All brand and product names appearing in this press release may be service
marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. NCR
WorldMark is a trademark and NCR Teradata RDBMS, NCR LifeKeeper and NCR TOP
END are registered trademarks of NCR Corporation.

CONTACT: Kathy White | NCR Corporation | (803) 939-6287 |
[email protected] | or | Elizabeth Berglund or Kara Carbon |
Edelman Worldwide | (212) 704-4527 or 704-8224 | [email protected]
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NCR Endorses Microsoft BackOffice Enterprise Edition by Showcasing its
Leadership in High Availability and Data Warehousing at Microsoft's
Scalability Day

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Date: Wednesday, May 21, 1997
Source: Business Wire
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE) via Individual Inc. -- NCR Corp. strengthened its
market leadership position within the high availability computing and data
warehouse markets with a series of demonstrations that incorporate support
for Microsoft's newly announced BackOffice Enterprise Edition at
Microsoft's Scalability Day, held here today.

The event, organized by Microsoft, and supported by partner companies like
NCR, served to provide further evidence of NT's ability to perform and
scale as an enterprise-wide network operating system.

"NCR's commitment to Windows NT for the enterprise is long- standing,
having been involved in its initial development and in integrating the
network operating system into highly effective computing solutions for our
customers," said Mark Hurd, vice president of Marketing for NCR's Computer
Systems Group. "So it's no accident that NCR has 67 percent market share of
NT-based systems greater than $50,000, as determined by IDC. We intend to
maintain this leadership position by continuing to invest and collaborate
with Microsoft and offer even higher scalability, reliability, and
performance to our customers with Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition and
SQL Server Enterprise Edition."

At Scalability Day, the company offered three demonstrations which
presented its ability to embrace and extend Microsoft's Windows NT
Enterprise Edition into its market-leading NCR Scalable Data Warehouse and
High Availability Transaction Processing (HATP) computing solutions.

The first dealt with the NCR WorldMark 4300, a mid-range Pentium Pro server
designed to enhance Windows NT Server scalability. The system was set up as
a data mart and transaction server. Running NCR TOP END, the company's
multi-faceted transaction broker middleware, the WorldMark 4300 launched a
transaction from the Microsoft ActiveX platform into a heterogeneous
enterprise computing environment, consisting of several operating systems,
including UNIX and MVS. TOP END enhances the Windows NT Server Enterprise
Edition by extending the ActiveX and Microsoft Transaction Server
environments into legacy environments that exist within the enterprise.
"This showed how easily and effectively our WorldMark 4300, running Windows
NT and utilizing NCR TOP END middleware, can handle a situation where few
things match perfectly yet need to work in concert," Hurd said.

The second showcase reinforced NCR's close collaboration with Microsoft,
which is delivering best-in-class, end-to-end scalability and price
performance for data marts and data warehousing through the linking of
NCR's Teradata relational database management system (RDBMS) and
Microsoft's SQL Server Enterprise Edition. It showed the launching of a
query through Microsoft Internet Information Server to a local SQL Server
decision support system. When it is determined that a portion of the
response resides within the enterprise data warehouse another query is
generated, using ActiveX components, and is directed to the
Teradata-managed data warehouse. The results are combined and then used to
produce an active Web page. As an active member of Microsoft's Alliance for
Data Warehousing, NCR continues to invest in the integration of SQL Server
as a key data component of its market leading Scalable Data Warehouse
environment. NCR is also migrating its data warehouse Teradata platform to
the Windows NT Enterprise Edition, providing further evidence about NCR's
confidence in Microsoft's platforms ability to scale.

The aforementioned demonstrations leverage the use of EMC and Symbios disk
array technology. EMC and Symbios are partners with NCR in delivering
enterprise class solutions.

A third demonstration of NCR performance and reliability was an Automated
Teller Machine (ATM) front end system challenged to handle the equivalent
of 1 billion transactions in a 24 hour period. This demonstration uniquely
positions NCR as a vendor that is not only able to offer data
management/decision support solutions designed around scaleable Microsoft
technologies, but also offers platforms to capture the data through
platforms such as NCR's industry leading ATM's and Point of Sale devices.

NCR also highlighted a comprehensive set of service offers to help
customers plan, build and manage solutions utilizing Microsoft technology.
As a global Authorized Support Center for Microsoft products and leveraging
worldwide consulting capabilities, NCR provides a number of service offers
in the areas of architecture and design, implementation and support.

NCR and Microsoft have worked closely together on the development and
advancement of NT for several years. Today, NCR has dedicated NT
engineering resources at Microsoft, in Redmond, WA, and NCR's WorldMark
production center, in Columbia, SC, and, the Teradata development
headquarters, in San Diego, CA. Joint product development, integration
testing and benchmarking of integrated NCR and Microsoft technologies are
performed at these facilities. These organizations have already embraced
the Enterprise Editions for Windows NT Server and SQL Server.

"Going forward, NCR will continue to lead in the enterprise area by working
closely with Microsoft and addressing key requirements such as scalability,
performance, high availability, transaction processing middleware, Internet
services, and data warehousing," Hurd noted.

NCR WorldMark 4300

The NCR WorldMark 4300 server is currently available in a four processor
version and will scale to eight Pentium Pro processors in one cabinet with
the release of NCR's innovative OctaSCALE architecture. OctaSCALE leverages
Intel's Standard High Volume (SHV) server boards to create a
high-performance system out of two four processor Intel boards. While fully
compliant with Intel's Multiprocessing Specification, NCR's OctaSCALE
implementation eliminates the overhead associated with other solutions that
use an interconnect to cluster together two or more boards.

The NCR WorldMark 4300 system supports hot pluggable disks and power
supplies, redundant fans and power supplies, a dedicated service modem for
remote management, an uninterruptible power supply with full power fail
recovery, and an integrated, hot pluggable server manager processor.

NCR TOP END

NCR TOP END is a robust middleware that offers a scaleable, message-passing
engine and distributed-application administration tools for successfully
deploying mission-critical applications across an enterprise. Using remote
Java or ActiveX-enabled clients, the newly enhanced TOP END software
provides instant linkages -- over the Internet and intranets -- to
customers' existing applications or business objects, such as on-line
inventory queries by suppliers or customer profile information requests.
Other NCR Enterprise NT Value Adds

NCR's LifeKeeper software was the first Windows NT failover and clustering
offering available in the industry. Since then, LifeKeeper has continued to
add to the high availability functionality that LifeKeeper offers while
embracing Microsoft Cluster Server, code-named "Wolfpack" by becoming an
Early Adopter of the technology.

NCR's SMP Utilization Manager is an enterprise class software tool that
allows multiple applications to run on multiprocessing Windows NT servers
with greater efficiency. Using the tool, for example, three applications
can be run on a 16 processor Windows NT server. Each application is
assigned to multiple processors, allowing for full utilization of the
system. NCR and Microsoft released a white paper that details how a
WorldMark 4300 with SMP Utilization Manager can enhance the scalability of
Microsoft Exchange.

About NCR

NCR is the world leader in delivering commercial, open computer systems for
distributed application and decision-support solutions to customers in all
industries. The company also develops industry- specific platforms and
solutions for customers in the retail, financial and telecommunications
industries. For further information on NCR WorldMark servers, TOP END or
NCR Teradata access the NCR site on the World Wide Web at
http://www.ncr.com

CONTACT: NCR | Jim Mazzola, 937/445-6148 | Email:
[email protected] | or | Edelman Worldwide, New York | Dee Anna
McPherson, 212/704-8133 | Email: [email protected]
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