Teradata Corporation (TDC)
Data analytics software maker, 5,100, 30% U.S. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 51 of the 174 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
25%
End of 2028
69%
Employees, annual report
5,100
Leading staffing pattern
Software Publishers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now25%
- End of 202755%
- End of 202869%
- End of 203075%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 25%
- Becomes checking a model's work 58%
- Handed over with lighter checks 9%
The filing states 5,100 employees, 30% in the United States, selling analytics software and consulting with nothing counted by function, so the split is by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 25% now, 55% at the end of 2027, 69% at the end of 2028, 75% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 75% desk work, 22% people work and 3% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 25% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 58% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
5,100 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states approximately 30% of employees in the United States and 70% across the rest of the world.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 5,100 employees globally, with approximately 30% employed in the United States and 70% across the rest of the world.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Software Publishers | 85% | By description (c): a data analytics and AI platform sold as subscription software and cloud services, recurring revenue 86% of the total; no count by function. |
| Computer Systems Design and Related Services | 15% | By description (c): consulting services are 12% of revenue, implementation and advisory work read at computer systems design; no count by function. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 5,100 employees in about 38 countries under a fully flexible work model, 30% in the United States; the filing says the headcount decreased in 2025 as it aligned its talent needs, from 5,700.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Software Publishers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Microsoft (MSFT, 223,000 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028
- Oracle (ORCL, 141,000 employees)26% now, 69% by 2028
- Salesforce, Inc. (CRM, 83,334 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028
- Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER, 34,000 employees)29% now, 67% by 2028
- DoorDash, Inc. (DASH, 31,400 employees)29% now, 67% by 2028
- Adobe Inc. (ADBE, 31,360 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028
- ServiceNow, Inc. (NOW, 29,187 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028
- Synopsys, Inc. (SNPS, 28,000 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
84 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing describes an agentic future of AI agents acting on enterprise data and positions the company's autonomous AI and knowledge platform and analytics capabilities as the system of intelligence for it.
- “You should understand that the factors described under "Risk Factors" and the following important factors could affect our future results and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements: Our ability to timely and effectively execute our strategy, including our initiatives to provide and enhance our offerings for on-premises, hybrid, an...”
- “In the agentic future, AI agents have enterprise context, can act on it in milliseconds and address continuous decisions at enterprise scale.”
- “This new landscape demands a new system of intelligence, and we believe Teradata is uniquely suited to provide this with our autonomous AI and knowledge platform as well as our data and analytics capabilities.”
- “We believe that we have architected our platform for autonomous AI operations and organizations' toughest data and analytics challenges, particularly as enterprises are evaluating how to cost effectively deploy agentic AI.”
- “Our platform is designed for data and analytics that can give customers the opportunity to run agentic AI at scale wherever that data resides in their business - whether public cloud, on-premises, private cloud, or a combination.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20211median 0
- Fiscal 20225median 0
- Fiscal 202362median 1
- Fiscal 202478median 4
- Fiscal 202584median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 5,100 | 2026-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 5,700 | 2025-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 6,500 | 2024-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 7,000 | 2023-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 7,200 | 2022-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 7,543 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 8,535 | 2020-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 10,152 | 2019-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 10,615 | 2018-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 10,093 | 2017-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 11,300 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 11,500 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 10,800 | 2014-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 10,200 | 2013-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 8,600 | 2012-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 7,400 | 2011-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 6,600 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 6,400 | 2009-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 5,900 | 2008-03-03 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by function; the consulting share is by description from revenue.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-012671, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Teradata Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 25% now and 69% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Teradata Corporation's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Teradata Corporation employ?
- 5,100 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 30% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Teradata Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Software Publishers; by those patterns the work is about 75% desk work, 22% people work and 3% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Teradata Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 84 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 1, 5, 62, 78 and 84 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 20, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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