Combined solution provides customers with highly scalable platform for analyzing corporate data
NEW ORLEANS—TDWI World Conference, Booth #114—February 10, 2003—Netezza Corporation today announced a technology alliance partnership with Business Objects, the world’s leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions. Netezza delivers the world’s first purpose-built, tera-scale data appliance optimized for the business intelligence needs of data-intensive organizations.
The partnership recognizes the compatibility of the Netezza Performance Server™ (NPS™) appliance with BI solutions from Business Objects. As a member of the Business Objects Technology Alliance Partner Program, Netezza will continue to develop products that complement Business Objects solutions.
“In today’s rapidly changing economy, companies must be able to identify and react quickly to change,” said Jit Saxena, co-founder and CEO of Netezza. “Combining the power of the NPS appliance with business intelligence solutions from Business Objects gives companies the power to quickly access and analyze data to make better business decisions and as a result, realize tremendous cost savings, improved operating efficiencies and better customer relations.”
The NPS appliance was designed from the onset to facilitate the complex types of data analysis that today’s business environments require—a ground-breaking alternative to the patchwork of general-purpose offerings that corporations were previously forced to rely on. The unique NPS architecture combines servers, storage and database into a single, powerful machine that shatters traditional performance benchmarks. The unique Asymmetric Massively Parallel Processing™ (AMPP™) approach combines the processing power of SMP with the scalability of MPP, delivering tremendous real-time performance and scalability. The patent-pending Intelligent Query Streaming™ design optimizes the flow of information by placing silicon processors near the storage device.
“Now more than ever, companies need to track, understand and manage their corporate data to improve business performance,” said Mark Tice, group vice president of worldwide channel sales at Business Objects. “Our focus has always been on giving companies the power to do more with their data through our end-to-end business intelligence solutions. This partnership with Netezza offers joint customers a highly scalable platform for rapidly analyzing their data to make better business decisions.”
About Business Objects
Business Objects is the world’s leading provider of business intelligence
(BI) solutions. Business intelligence lets organizations access, analyze, and
share information internally with employees and externally with customers, suppliers,
and partners. It helps organizations improve operational efficiency, build profitable
customer relationships, and develop differentiated product offerings.
The company’s products include data integration tools, the industry’s leading integrated business intelligence platform, and a suite of enterprise analytic applications. Business Objects is the first to offer a complete BI solution that is composed of best-of-breed components, giving organizations the means to deploy end-to-end BI to the enterprise, from data extraction to analytic applications.
Business Objects has more than 17,000 customers in over 80 countries. The company’s stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris (Euroclear code 12074). It is included in the SBF 120 and IT CAC 50 French stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at 408-953-6000 and www.businessobjects.com.
About Netezza Corporation
Netezza has created the world’s first purpose-built, tera-scale data appliance
that enables real-time Business Intelligence (BI). The NPS appliance runs ad
hoc and complex queries in a fraction of the time of existing solutions, delivering
fast and affordable BI to data-intensive organizations in financial services,
retail, communications and other markets. Based on a patent-pending architecture,
the NPS system delivers faster, more sophisticated analysis while allowing companies
to leverage their existing infrastructure. Founded in 2000 and based in Framingham,
Mass., Netezza is led by an experienced management team from several leading
technology companies. The Company is financed by Matrix Partners, Charles River
Ventures and Battery Ventures. Please visit Netezza on the Web at www.netezza.com
or call Netezza toll free at 1.866.Netezza.
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