THOMAS COOK BOOKS NETEZZA AS ENTERPRISE DATA WAREHOUSE

Analytic Appliance Leader to Speed through Crucial Customer Data Analysis for Leading Travel Company

Stockholm, Sweden — 11 December, 2007 — Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ), the global leader in analytic appliances, today announced that leading travel organisation Thomas Cook (formerly MyTravel) has selected the Netezza Performance Server® (NPS®) system as its enterprise data warehouse. Specified and installed by Stockholm-based IT partner BizIntel, the new system will replace Hewlett-Packard in a strategic initiative to improve the performance of the warehouse, while simplifying maintenance.

Margaretha Bremar, CIO at Thomas Cook in Northern Europe explains, “Our legacy data warehouse had been struggling to perform under rapidly growing volumes of data for some time. As our business continued to grow, we became concerned that our existing systems weren’t capable of scaling to our requirements without a massive financial investment and increasing the complexity of the warehouse. The Netezza data warehouse appliance is already in production for real-time customer segmentation. It will eventually be used as the backbone of our Business Intelligence operation to analyse data across all of our channels to market, including the web. We have been extremely impressed with its performance so far.”

Dave Kloc, vice president, European Operations for Netezza added, “Thomas Cook is a dynamic and expanding business that needs to be able to analyse customer information with speed and ease. By moving to Netezza, the Company will dramatically reduce time-consuming administration and development requirements and minimise the use of summary tables. The business users can also continue to use their existing analysis tool, MicroStrategy, which will be simply re-pointed to the NPS system.”

Designed specifically for high-performance, terascale analytics, the NPS system architecturally integrates a relational database, server and storage into a single compact and power-efficient unit. The system’s advantage comes from its patented streaming architecture. Netezza has placed processing power next to the data, so analysis occurs at the source at streaming speeds, delivering an unprecedented 10-100 times the performance of traditional systems at a fraction of the cost. Analyses that took many hours now take just seconds. This means a dramatic increase in productivity across the enterprise and faster time to value for business initiatives. Netezza appliances are changing the way organizations leverage information, creating a powerful analytic foundation for a new generation of business analytics that improve strategic decision-making and drive results.

Customers who have recognized the benefits of Netezza’s approach include Amazon.com, Center Parcs, Debenhams, Epsilon, FloraHolland, Neiman Marcus, Orange UK, The Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media.

About BizIntel
BizIntel has a long history of supplying enterprise wide BI platforms across Scandinavia’s largest, most demanding and sophisticated Data Warehouse installations. In partnership with vendors providing world leading technologies, BizIntel ensures its customers see business benefits and achieve ROI.

About Netezza Corporation
Netezza (NYSE Arca: NZ) is the global leader in analytic appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics for business users across the extended enterprise, delivering significant competitive and operational advantage in today’s information-intensive marketplaces. The Netezza Performance Server (NPS) family of streaming analytic™ appliances brings appliance simplicity to a broad range of complex data warehouse and analytic challenges. Customers who have realized the benefits of Netezza appliances include Ahold, Amazon.com, CNET Networks, Debenhams, Department of Veterans Affairs, Epsilon, Neiman Marcus, Orange UK, Premier, Inc., Ross Stores, Ryder System, Inc., The Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media. Based in Framingham, Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.

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