BOSTON, MA — ENZEE UNIVERSE —
June 21, 2010 — Netezza
Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data
warehouse, analytic and monitoring appliances, and with Fuzzy Logix,
LLC, a leading provider of advanced analytical solutions, today announced
that Catalina Marketing is using Fuzzy Logix’s in-database analytics
library DB Lytix™
on the Netezza® TwinFin™ i Class™ enabled data warehouse
appliance to deliver custom analytics for market basket analysis. By
exploiting the performance of in-database analytics, Catalina expects
to gain deeper insights into consumer purchase decisions and positively
transform the application of analytics in the retail sector. The DB
Lytix platform represents one of the first implementations of the Netezza
i-Class module of advanced analytics.
“Netezza continues to be an important Catalina business partner
with a proven track record of delivering innovative appliances; and,
we are experiencing the same significant improvements in custom analytics
due to in-database analytics. Fuzzy Logix’s DB Lytix running on
the Netezza TwinFin appliance, reduced cycle time for a key process,
market basket analysis, from a multiple-hour run-time to finishing in
minutes - an impressive enhancement considering this process covers
52 weeks, 80,000 products and 20,000,000 IDs,” said Ryan Carr,
Vice President of Predictive Modeling and Analytic Systems at Catalina
Marketing,. “We are excited to be partnering with Fuzzy Logix
and Netezza, and we look forward to the value deeper data analysis,
advanced trend spotting techniques and the ability to build custom analytical
models will bring to our business.”
DB Lytix is the result of more than ten years of extensive research
on advanced analytical methods, and contains functions for mathematical
and statistical analysis, data mining, and Monte Carlo simulations.
DB Lytix leverages the high performance throughput of Netezza’s
appliances and utilizes in-database analytics on Netezza’s shared-nothing
Asymmetric Massively Parallel Processing™ architecture for tremendous
gains in speed.
Prat Moghe, Netezza’s Senior Vice President of Strategy and New
Markets, agrees, “Fuzzy Logix was an early adopter of our i-Class
in-database analytics vision and ported their in-database analytics
library DB Lytix to the Netezza platform. We are pleased that Catalina
has recognized the full potential of DB Lytix for very large sets of
data on the Netezza platform. We are confident that many more enterprises
will take notice of the power of in-database analytics and use it for
gaining valuable insights from their enterprise data warehouse.”
According to Partha Sen, CEO of Fuzzy Logix, “We are glad that
we could provide a competitive edge to Catalina with our technology.
We are very excited to be working with Catalina and hope to help them
develop innovative and insightful analytical models.”
About Catalina Marketing
Catalina Marketing Corporation, www.catalinamarketing.com,
owns and operates the world's largest, transaction-level, shopper-data
warehouse -- powering media networks to intelligently connect CPG, health
care, and retailer marketers with specific audiences. Catalina Marketing
develops, delivers, and measures shopper and patient-driven engagements
with approximately 90M households and 130M patients annually. Media
distribution channels include 50,000 food, drug and mass locations worldwide,
including 18,000 US pharmacies. The company is based in St. Petersburg,
Florida, with operations in the US, Europe and Japan.
About Netezza Corporation
Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ) is the global leader in data warehouse,
analytic and monitoring appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance
analytics across an extended enterprise. Netezza’s technology
enables organizations to process enormous amounts of captured data at
exceptional speed, providing a significant competitive and operational
advantage in today’s data-intensive industries, including digital
media, energy, financial services, government, health and life sciences,
retail and telecommunications. Netezza is headquartered in Marlborough,
Massachusetts and has offices in Northern Virginia, the United Kingdom,
Germany, France, Poland, Japan, Korea, Australia and Singapore. For
more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.
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Netezza®, TwinFin™, i-Class™ and
the Netezza ‘N’ logo are either registered trademarks or
trademarks of Netezza Corporation. DB Lytix™ is a trademark of
Fuzzy Logix, LLC. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
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