The TJX Companies, Inc. is a leading global
off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions. The company
operates 749 T.J. Maxx, 674 Marshalls, 182 HomeGoods, and 99
A.J. Wright stores in the US. In Canada, the company
operates 160 Winners and 25 HomeSense stores, and
in Europe, 147 T.K. Maxx stores. And the retailer
continues to build a larger target group of fashion and
value-conscious shoppers by offering brand name merchandise at
prices that are 20-60 percent less than department
stores.
TJX, with $12 billion in revenues and over
94,000 associates worldwide, recently turned to Netezza to
overcome the storage and processing capabilities of
traditional solutions, and to find a cost-effective way to
handle the large amounts of data generated by the company's
steady growth. The off-price retailer has chosen the Netezza
Performance Server (NPS ) data warehouse appliance as part of
its data warehouse solution.
The Netezza Performance Server (NPS) 8000
Series is an enterprise-class data appliance that delivers 10
to 50 times the performance for large, complex and constantly
evolving Business Intelligence efforts at half the cost of
existing systems. The NPS system will allow TJX to manage fast
data loads and optimizes ad hoc and complex BI queries for
maximum performance, transforming the way the retailer
utilizes data.
Through its Asymmetric Massively Parallel
Processing (AMPP) architecture, the system combines the
processing power of SMP with the scalability of MPP to deliver
breakthrough price/performance. Netezza's Intelligent Query
Streaming design implements query functions in silicon and
enables intelligent data streaming at the disk level,
shattering traditional performance benchmarks by removing many
of the technical roadblocks that paralyze today's patchwork of
general-purpose offerings.
The enterprise-class, breakthrough NPS
appliance promises to enable TJX to efficiently store and
access terabytes of data. Netezza will make it possible for
TJX to process and analyze extraordinary volumes of data at
the lowest cost of ownership.
