Highlights How Netezza Data Warehouse Appliance Enables Previously Impossible or Financially Impractical Analysis of Information Resources
Framingham, Mass.—April 29, 2004—The Yankee Group has profiled the Netezza Performance Server™ (NPS™) appliance and its ability to help telecommunications carriers profit from data they would have otherwise moved offsite or discarded. In the Billing & Payment Application Strategies Research Note, titled “Netezza Turbocharges Reporting and Analysis for Telecommunications Carriers,” Yankee Group Analyst Jason Briggs commends Netezza for enabling information analysis that “previously would have been either impossible or financially impractical.”
Yankee highlighted the NPS appliance’s ability to help carriers realize business value by quickly and easily analyzing data-intensive information such as Call Data Records (CDRs). “The CDR stream represents the lifeblood of a communications carrier’s information system and is an undeveloped natural resource,” writes Briggs. “Allowing business unit owners such as engineering, finance, marketing and customer service access to this information reduces the demand on the corporate data warehouse and gives the business users better access to data.”
“Telecommunications companies operate some of the largest data warehouses in the world and struggle to get their arms around information vital for current and new business initiatives,” said Netezza CEO Jit Saxena. “This Yankee report continues the landslide of praise for Netezza’s groundbreaking data warehouse solution, which is used by some of the largest carriers in the world to easily and affordably access and analyze oceans of information contained in call records and click streams.”
Since its introduction last year, the Netezza Performance Server data warehouse appliance has been deployed by leading companies in telecommunications, retail, the life sciences and other industries to power their business intelligence efforts. AT&T Wireless, Orange UK and Caudwell Communications are among Netezza’s telecommunications customers. Additional worldwide customers include: The TJX Companies, Epsilon and Premier, Inc.
About The Yankee Group
The Yankee Group is the global leader in communications & networking research
and consulting. The company helps businesses understand the opportunities, risks
and competitive pressures of developing, deploying and consuming products and
services that drive communication or information exchange. Now in its fourth
decade, the Yankee Group is based in Boston with offices throughout North America
and Europe.
About Netezza Corporation
Netezza is a fast-growing provider of enterprise-class data warehouse appliances
that deliver breakthrough performance and ease-of-use at a fraction of the cost
of traditional data warehouses. The Netezza Performance Server™ (NPS™)
system enables Fortune 1000 customers with terabytes of dynamic, detailed data
to dramatically simplify even the most complex Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives.
By architecturally integrating database, server and storage within a single
appliance, the NPS system delivers 10 to 50 times the performance at half the
cost of existing systems. The NPS appliance is being used by data-intensive
organizations in telecommunications, financial services, retail, the life sciences,
government and other markets to enable faster, more sophisticated analysis while
allowing companies to leverage their existing infrastructure. Founded in 2000
and based in Framingham, Mass., the Company has raised more than $53M from leading
venture capital firms, including Matrix Partners, Charles River Ventures, Battery
Ventures, Orange Ventures and Sequoia Capital. For more information about Netezza,
please visit www.netezza.com.
# # #
Netezza, the Netezza logo, NPS, Netezza Performance Server, Intelligent Query Streaming, Asymmetric Massively Parallel Processing, AMPP and SQL-BLAST are trademarks or registered trademarks of Netezza Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. All rights reserved. All other company, brand and product names contained herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.