Strategic agreement adds full text search queries to structured data analytics

BOSTON, MA — ENZEE UNIVERSE — June 22, 2010 — Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse, analytic and monitoring appliances, and Attivio Inc., the premier unified information access (UIA) software provider, today announced they have entered into a strategic agreement to develop and offer a solution that integrates unstructured content with the structured data that traditionally resides in a data warehouse. The announcement was made during Monday’s keynote address by Jim Baum, president and CEO of Netezza, at the start of Netezza’s 2010 Enzee Universe User Conference taking place this week at the Westin Waterfront Hotel in Boston.

“We introduced the world's first data warehouse appliance and challenged the status quo,” Baum stated. “And now, driven by our customers, we are shaping solutions to solve bigger, more complex enterprise-wide challenges. With the explosion in volume and variety of unstructured information driven, particularly, by the Internet and social networking, we’ve heard a clear demand for a unified approach that can scale from fairly small implementations all the way to petabyte deployments. This relationship with Attivio brings an entirely new ability to analyze and incorporate unstructured content within the data warehouse.”

Most technologies treat structured, semi-structured and unstructured data independently, managing different data types in silos where their full value is unrealized and unattainable. Netezza’s initiative with Attivio, to be discussed in two conference sessions at the Enzee Universe Conference on Tuesday, will deliver unified information access to structured and unstructured information managed within the same appliance and make the unified information available for query and analysis from one interface. Event participants will be invited to join a pilot beta test program for the new solution.

“Enterprises increasingly need a combined view of their entire information landscape where both precise and relevant answers are dictated by the context of the question, not by the source or structure of the information,” said Ali Riaz, CEO at Attivio. “UIA effectively solves the problem of information isolation that limits business agility, and we are delighted to partner with Netezza to bring this capability to their customers.”

“As global markets move faster and information buried in documents, emails, websites and social media becomes increasingly important, companies need to quickly and efficiently find a way to correlate what people do (in structured data) with what they say (in unstructured content),” commented Dan Vesset, vice president, Business Analytics at IDC, the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. “Unified information access and analysis improves the return on information by delivering broader, deeper, and more-timely insight. The combined knowledge and expertise of Netezza and Attivio should further accelerate the business impact of UIA.”

About Attivio

On-demand insight is critical to the success of any business, but the information that decisions and processes depend on is created and stored in many formats – databases, spreadsheets, documents, emails, blogs, and more. Attivio solves this long-standing problem of information isolation by integrating search, business intelligence and process automation capabilities to provide answers and intelligence – not just data. With Attivio’s Active Intelligence Engine™ (AIE), users retrieve and analyze all types of content and data with simple, search-style queries and via reports and executive dashboards.

AIE’s dynamic approach to unified information access features rapid development, true incremental scalability and a small footprint that can be easily embedded in other products and applications. Business and IT leaders, system integrators and independent software vendors partner with Attivio to address today’s global business imperatives – uncovering insights that drive innovation and reveal new opportunities, mitigating risk and containing cost. Please visit www.attivio.com for more information.

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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