Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) is a publicly traded enterprise data-analytics software company founded July 13, 1979, and headquartered at 17095 Via del Campo, San Diego, California. It was spun out of NCR and began trading independently in October 2007. Public profiles put headcount at roughly 5,100–5,700 employees and trailing-twelve-month revenue at approximately $1.66–1.69 billion (FY2025 revenue ~$1.66B). It is not a subsidiary; it is an independent NYSE-listed company.
Products and operations. Teradata sells enterprise data and analytics software. Its flagship platform, Teradata Vantage (marketed as VantageCloud), is a multi-cloud/multi-hybrid data platform unifying data warehouses, data lakes and analytics across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, private cloud and on-premises deployments. ClearScape Analytics provides in-database advanced analytics and machine-learning capabilities, including columnar compression features (block-level compression, algorithmic compression, autocompression) that have been the technical focus of its patent litigation. It serves large enterprises and government agencies in financial services, telecom, retail, healthcare and public sector, alongside cloud and on-premises deployments and subscription/as-a-service offerings.
Patent-litigation posture. Teradata is an operating company defending against patent-assertion suits, not an NPE. The tracked case data shows 0 cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant. The sole tracked matter is Realtime Data LLC d/b/a IXO v. Teradata Corporation et al., filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division — a plaintiff-friendly venue. Realtime Data is widely characterized as a non-practicing entity (Stanford NPE Litigation Database labels it "individual-inventor-started"; Unified Patents classifies Realtime Data as an NPE).
Notable case context. Realtime Data (E.D. Tex. No. 6:15-cv-00470) asserted several data-compression patents, including the '506, '728, '992, '530, '513 and '812 patents, against Teradata Database and RainStor compression products, and also sued Teradata Operations, Inc. in the Central District of California. Teradata moved to transfer venue; the case was transferred to the Northern District of California (No. 5:16-cv-01836). Teradata Operations filed inter partes review petitions against Realtime patents (e.g., IPR2017-00806, IPR2017-00808) in 2017.