Framingham, Mass. and Glendale, Calif.—August 29, 2005—In a move designed to enable software companies to port their analytical applications to run on its data warehouse appliance, Netezza Corporation and Systech Solutions, Inc. today announced that they have expanded their partnership. Working with Netezza, Systech has created the Global Software Porting Center, which provides a core of project management professionals, software architects and developers who are trained to quickly port existing Business Intelligence applications to the NPS® system.

The Global Software Porting Center combines the high standards and proven methodology developed by Systech for their BI and data warehousing practices with the performance and ease of use of the Netezza data warehouse appliance. Systech’s approach, together with Netezza’s compliance with open standards and established industry protocols, mitigates development risk and reduces time to market. As a result, software companies can use the Porting Center to quickly introduce significantly improved price-performance characteristics with their applications. Additionally, Systech will leverage its offshore technology center along with both local and global resources and experience to port, test and deploy existing applications.

“This partnership provides software companies looking to leverage Netezza’s performance, total cost of ownership advantage and expanding market presence with a quick and cost-effective option to port their applications,” said Bill Doyle, vice president of channel sales at Netezza. “Systech’s comprehensive methodologies, proven track record and experience with Netezza, coupled with a low-cost development resource option, allow software companies to efficiently leverage best practices with our system.”

Building large-scale data warehouses using a phased approach with short-term deliverables is a Systech trademark and their Netezza experience in proof of concepts and implementations follows these same proven processes and methodologies. Systech Solutions also has significant experience in data migration, BI tool migration, application migration and BI software porting and integration testing, which it will leverage in the Global Software Porting Center.

“Systech has focused on developing our Netezza practice and expertise as demonstrated by our Netezza Partner of the Year Award. We believe that the commitment by both companies to the creation of a Global Software Porting Center will add to the growing momentum that Netezza is building in the marketplace. Our mutual goal in the creation of this Global Porting Center is to continue to deliver on the commitment of Netezza CEO Jit Saxena - To Be Easy to Do Business With,” said Tony Nicassio, executive vice president worldwide operations and technology for Systech Solutions.

About Systech
Founded in 1993, Systech Solutions, Inc. develops customizable Business Intelligence solutions. Based in Los Angeles, the company has offices throughout California, Oregon, Washington, and Illinois, as well as an Overseas Technology Center in India. Their solutions leverage the power of data and information to eliminate sources of inefficiency and friction up and down the supply chain, reducing time and increasing revenue. Systech teams partner with customers to bring innovative methodologies, years of industry experience and unequalled professional integrity to every project. For more information about Systech please visit http://www.systechusa.com/.

About Netezza Corporation
Netezza is the market-leading 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® 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. Founded in 2000 and based in Framingham, Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific. The Company has raised more than $68M from leading venture capital firms, including Matrix Partners, Charles River Ventures, Battery Ventures, Orange Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Meritech Capital Partners. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.

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