Data can help companies leapfrog competition: Teradata President & CEO

'The challenge that faced Teradata was to be seen predominantly as modern and relevant as our customers adopted cloud-based technologies', said McMillan

Steve McMillan, president and CEO of Teradata, took the helm of the company in June 2020, when the pandemic had gripped the world and uncertainty was rife. The company itself was in the midst of a restructuring. In an interview with Shivani Shinde, McMillan talks about the transformation Teradata went through to be more cloud-focused, the importance of data governance and the India market. Edited excerpts

You took over Teradata at a challenging time in the midst of the pandemic last year. How has the journey been so far?

I joined Teradata in June of 2019, and I see myself as a