VIBRANT SOLUTIONS
SELECTS NETEZZA PERFORMANCE SERVER
Netezza's Unmatched Performance Enables Top Provider of Revenue Management
Solutions to Detect Leakage in Near Real-Time for Global Telecommunications
Carriers
Framingham, Mass.-October 28, 2002-Netezza Corporation today announced that
Vibrant Solutions, the leading provider of Cost and Revenue Management
solutions, has purchased the Netezza Performance Server ( (NPS() 8100¾the
world's first purpose-built, tera-scale data appliance for Fortune 1000
companies and other data-intensive organizations that need faster, more
sophisticated Business Intelligence (BI).
Vibrant is the worldwide leader in Cost and Revenue Management for
telecommunications providers. Its software and services increase efficiencies,
optimize networks and reduce costs for telecommunications providers, helping
them save millions annually. Vibrant is using the Netezza system in its own
organization and is leveraging its unique price/performance benefits to enable
a whole new generation of assurance solutions that weren't previously possible
with an older, inefficient and expensive patchwork of database, server and
storage technologies. Vibrant's latest solution-Network Usage Assurance (NUA)-
was recently recognized at Telestrategies' Revenue Assurance and Margin
Management as the industry's first service provider offering to detect billing
event leakage and discrepancies.
"Today's telecommunications companies are moving full-steam ahead with Cost
and Revenue Management projects that are worth millions of dollars to the
bottom line. Unfortunately, shrinking budgets, an explosion in data and very
little time to capitalize on this information can hinder these efforts," said
Rick Mahuson, CTO of Vibrant Solutions. "Netezza removed the price/performance
bottleneck, making it possible to reduce the analysis of billions of call
detail records from more than 36 hours to just 26 minutes, without a
multi-million-dollar, forklift upgrade to our systems. Our customers will be
able to do things they couldn't do before, making it fast and affordable to
revisit data warehousing initiatives and implement a new generation of more
effective cost and revenue assurance operations."
The NPS appliance delivers 10 to 20 times the performance for large,
complex and constantly growing BI efforts at half the cost of existing
systems. Netezza started with a clean sheet of paper and designed a
breakthrough architecture, Asymmetric Massively Parallel Processing(
(AMPP(tm)). It combines servers, storage and database into a single powerful
and scalable appliance created from the outset to process queries faster¾and
enable complex data analysis that was not previously possible because of large
and fast-growing data sizes. This new architecture shatters traditional
performance benchmarks and many of the technical roadblocks that paralyze
today's patchwork of general-purpose offerings.
"The explosion in data has dramatically changed the technical and business
needs of dozens of industries, particularly telecommunications companies and
their providers," said Jit Saxena, co-founder and CEO of Netezza Corp.
"Vibrant is at the forefront of helping telecommunications companies maximize
their revenue opportunities¾and we're pleased that the Netezza solution is
fueling a new generation of previously impossible business initiatives that
deliver even more revenue opportunities for carriers."
To view widespread praise of the NPS appliance from industry experts,
partners and early customers, please visit
www.Netezza.com/testimonials.
