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Partnership combines scalability and performance of Netezza with
the flexibility, automation and governance of the Kalido® Information
Engine™
Gartner BI Summit, Washington, D.C. —
March 10, 2009
- Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca:
NZ) and Kalido today announced
a strategic partnership to deliver high-performance data warehouse
solutions in an automated and flexible BI architecture with a low
total cost of ownership (TCO). Large enterprises now have access to
the market-leading performance of Netezza coupled with Kalido’s
flexible, fully governed data
warehouse software. Under the terms of the partnership, Kalido
will release a version of its award-winning Kalido® Information
Engine™ that will be certified to run on Netezza appliances.
- As part of the partnership, Netezza and Kalido will collaborate
to develop industry-specific solutions to meet key business requirements
across a number of industries, including life sciences, financial
services and consumer packaged goods. These solutions will be based
on the best practices of both companies and delivered with pre-built
models, load processes and dashboards.
- The Kalido
Information Engine is the industry’s most advanced and comprehensive
platform for design, development and operation of well-governed
data warehouses. Kalido’s Business Information Modeler provides
collaboration between IT and business users to deliver up to the minute
business requirements and ensure end-to-end consistency of data definitions.
By deploying Kalido together with Netezza data
warehouse appliances, customers now can have industry-leading
performance and scalability, as well as the confidence that their
data is accurate, consistent and relevant.
- Joint customers will significantly reduce the time and effort needed
to build a data warehouse: Netezza automates much of the database
administration activities, such as hardware configuration and tuning,
while Kalido automates much of the development, such as physical schema
management, data load, exception management, integrated master data
management and BI configuration.
- In addition, the solution can quickly meet new business requirements
for joint customers: Netezza scales out to handle new data sets, while
Kalido’s automation and flexibility reduce the cost of implementing
enhancements by as much as 95 percent.
- For more information on the partnership, please visit www.kalido.com/netezza
or www.netezza.com/kalido.
Quotes
Claudia Imhoff, president and founder, Intelligent Solutions, said:
- “It is increasingly critical for organizations to quickly
develop, deliver and maintain data warehouses in the most cost-effective
manner. This collaboration between Netezza and Kalido combines the
best of both worlds – speed, performance and scalability with
rapid iteration, flexibility and a business-focused approach to delivering
requirements.”
Jim Baum, president and CEO, Netezza, said:
- “With Kalido’s ability to solve some of the biggest
information management challenges facing companies today, Netezza
can offer customers a new way to solve a myriad of challenges, including
corporate performance, profitability analysis and third-party data
management. We’re excited to bring this combined solution to
the market.”
Bill Hewitt, president and CEO of Kalido, said:
- “Netezza is a leader in getting business users what they want;
information at their fingertips. By combining the two solutions, we
can now address the ultimate challenge in the BI world; speed to deploy,
performance and flexibility in one solution. Our industry-specific
solutions approach will dramatically accelerate the speed of implementation
as well, reducing the time to value for our customers.”
About Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ)
Netezza (NYSE Arca: NZ) is the global leader in data warehouse and
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 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, Nationwide, Neiman
Marcus, Orange UK, Premier, Inc., Ross Stores, Ryder System, Inc., The
Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media. Based in Marlborough, Mass., Netezza
has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and the Asia Pacific
region. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.
About Kalido
Kalido delivers industry leading solutions for turning bad data into
meaningful business information. Developed through years of successful
best practice implementations, Kalido’s robust, business-model
driven information management engine governs data across the enterprise
and automatically feeds information to industry standard BI platforms.
Kalido software is implemented at over 250 locations in more than 100
countries with market leading companies. More information about Kalido
can be found at: http://www.kalido.com.
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Netezza, Netezza Performance Server and NPS are trademarks
of Netezza Corporation. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
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