Teradata Viewpoint is the most exciting and strategic development program within Teradata. Viewpoint is a state-of-the-art Web 2.0 application platform that is the center piece of Teradata's new wave of modern applications and management tools. You can extend it and build your own applications using the Viewpoint Portlet Developer Kit (PDK).

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Raising Intelligence - Viewpoint Shared Portlets

In the spirit of "Tis better to give than receive" comes the next blog on cool Viewpoint features, that being the ability to "share" a portlet. The shared portlets feature captures a customized version of a portlet and allows it to be shared as a distinct portlet for use by other Viewpoint users. It will appear in the admin menus as its own portlet including the same permissions options as the original portlet it was derived from. One may ask how does it work? And why would one use it?

Raising Intelligence - Viewpoint DCS Usage

After a spectacular Teradata Partners Conference, I'm back to do another cool Viewpoint features blog. I want to start out on this one with a little background on how this feature came about. In our first two Viewpoint releases, we focused on Teradata Management and Teradata Self Service aspects. Our customer base increased and with that, so did the importance of Viewpoint in the Teradata customer infrastructure. With that increased base and importance, it became clear that we needed to improve on the management aspects of the Viewpoint Appliance itself.

Elastic Marts Builder

Elastic Marts Builder allows business users and developers to easily allocate an elastic data mart (i.e. a database) inside the Teradata System. Using an on demand self service portlet, the user can create a database, upload comma separated values (.CSV) data, and begin analysis – all within 5-10 minutes.

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Elastic Marts Builder Installation Guide

This guide explains how to install and configure the Elastic Marts Builder portlet and its utilities.

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What is the Teradata Agile Analytics Cloud?

The Teradata Agile Analytic Cloud allows business users and developers to easily allocate an elastic data mart (i.e. a database) inside the Teradata System. Using an on demand self service portlet (the Elastic Marts Builder portlet), the user can create a database, upload comma separated values (.CSV) data, and begin analysis – all within 5-10 minutes.

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Raising Intelligence - Viewpoint SQL Scratchpad Query Mgt

This is the second in the series of blogs regarding cool features and tidbits within Teradata Viewpoint. Today's discussion is going to focus on SQL Scratchpad, a new Self Service portlet released with Viewpoint 13.0.1 in June 2009. SQL Scratchpad is the most significant addition to the Self Service aspect of Viewpoint since the "My Queries" portlet release in August 2008. SQL Scratchpad enables Teradata users in submitting ad-hoc SQL, getting result sets, and managing queries through a Viewpoint portlet.

Raising Intelligence - Viewpoint System Health Configuration

As the Product Manager for Viewpoint, I have the distinct pleasure of discussing, presenting, and demonstrating the extensive feature content to account teams, partners, and customers. My thanks goes out to the Viewpoint Engineering team in providing lots for me to talk about ... And learn. So this is the start of a series of blogs regarding cool features and tidbits I've found and continue to discover within Viewpoint.

Viewpoint Rewind screencast

The Rewind feature in Teradata Viewpoint allows the user to examine the state of a Teradata system at an arbitrary point in the past. In this video, Teradata Viewpoint engineer Kurt Jackson provides a quick (1 min, 40 sec) overview of the Rewind functionality.


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Viewpoint 13.0.1.3 Release Notes

A Viewpoint 13.0.1.3 patch was released on September 9th, 2009.   This patch release fixes a critical bug that causes Firefox 3.5 to crash when rewind is used.   It also contains some critical fixes for the Sql Scratchpad portlet.  If you have pushed Sql Scratchpad out to your end users you will definitely want to upgrade to this release to prevent Viewpoint from experiencing a crash or hang.   Also included in this patch release is a fix to exclude PE only nodes in the roll up for CPU Utilization in System Health and Capacity Heatmap and a fix to accurat

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Viewpoint Portlets and Pages screencast

Teradata Viewpoint is a fully web-based database management platform, built on the JSR-168 portal standard. In this screencast, Teradata Viewpoint engineer Josh Palmer provide a quick (2 min) overview of basic portal functionality: adding and removing portlets to the page, moving portlets, and managing pages.

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