Teradata Corp., the big data analyticscompany, announced that American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus, better known as Aflac, a Fortune 500 company providing financial protection to more than 50 million people worldwide, has selected Teradata as a technology partner as Aflac undergoes an architectural upgrade to its enterprise data warehouse. Teradata will collaborate with Aflac data science and analytics teams to update the existing data ecosystem, which is core to their line of business, to enhance capabilities and opportunities pertaining to big data and new data insights. 

Aflac has selected Teradata's Data Warehouse Appliance 2800 and Teradata's Appliance for Hadoop to host the new enterprise data warehouse. The new technology is expected to ensure   seamless integration with relational and non-relational data to provide a self-service business intelligence ecosystem for actionable insights and reporting.