Challenge: A very large ISP was unable to quickly analyze customer visits and measure the success of its website. As its data grew exponentially with information gathered from millions of page views and large advertising and affiliate programs, this e-business was looking for a much faster alternative to its Red Brick/HP/EMC platform.

Result with the Netezza data warehouse appliance: The NPS® data warehouse appliance was delivered, installed on the customer network, loaded with 2TBs of data and configured with Ab Initio and Business Objects in just five days. Running load test queries against over 5.4 billion rows, the Netezza Performance Server® system ran these queries in a total of 21 minutes, versus 50 hours on the company's existing platform. The NPS® system also produced these dramatic results against 2.2 billion more detail rows than the existing production system. The NPS® system completed the total workload 143x (or 14,300%) faster than the highly tuned legacy system. This customer can now realize faster, more comprehensive and effective real-time analysis of its customers.