Global Seafood Provider
Selects Netezza Appliance as its Enterprise Data Warehouse to Integrate
Sales, Supply Chain and Logistics Data
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., — September 13,
2010 — Netezza Corporation
(NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data
warehouse, analytic and monitoring appliances, today announced that
Clearwater Seafoods Limited, a leader in the global seafood industry,
has deployed Netezza's data warehouse appliance as its enterprise data
warehouse (EDW) to gain deeper insights into its data through the company's
dashboard and provide a holistic view of the company's operations.
Clearwater is a progressive, rapidly growing Canadian company that
operates a large fleet of vessels and owns several processing plants
throughout Eastern Canada. Clearwater has cultivated and maintained
an entrepreneurial spirit in its worldwide operations and combined it
with innovative product design, marketing techniques and technological
advances. Clearwater's focus has always been to serve customers' premium
quality sustainable shellfish and seafood products second to none.
Netezza's data warehouse appliance enables Clearwater to incorporate
data from various sources in order to provide different user organizations
throughout the company with a single, comprehensive view of the business'
operations. Clearwater brought its first data warehouse application
into production within two months of receiving the appliance. Clearwater's
user organizations include:
- Sales – evaluating demand through dynamic dashboards;
- Supply – analyzing data captured from vessels in the ocean
that are harvesting fish; and
- Logistics – evaluating the relationships between supply,
inventory and demand at a global scale, which is critical to the company.
"As our business continues to expand globally, keeping tabs on
our supply chain is extremely important," said Fran MacDonald,
Manager of System Development of Clearwater Seafoods Limited. "With
the Netezza data warehouse appliance, Clearwater has moved from having
a stovepipe view of the world – where each group only saw its
own data – to an enterprise view of the company. We're better
equipped to make business decisions by evaluating the profitability
of each product based on inventory, value, margins, and supply and demand.
It's really been a cultural revolution for us."
The Netezza data warehouse appliance is built specifically to analyze
petabytes of detailed data significantly faster than existing data warehouse
options, at a much lower total cost of ownership. It stores, filters
and processes terabytes of records within a single unit, analyzing only
the relevant information for each query.
"In order to gain a competitive edge, it's critical that retailers
achieve a comprehensive view of their customers, inventory and other
parts of their business," said Jim Kelly, vice president and GM
of Retail & CPG Markets, Netezza. "By building an EDW on the
Netezza appliance, Clearwater is better equipped to analyze its products
and supply chain operations in order to minimize loss and improve profitability."
About Clearwater Seafoods Limited
Clearwater Seafoods is a leader in the global seafood industry recognized
for its consistent quality, wide diversity and reliable delivery of
premium seafood, including scallops, lobster, clams, cold-water shrimp
and crab. Since its founding in 1976, Clearwater has invested in science,
people, technology, resource ownership and resource management to sustain
and grow its seafood resource. This commitment has allowed it to remain
a leader in the North American seafood industry. www.clearwater.ca.
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, Canada, 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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