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	To be successful today, organizations need to be able to uncover new insights and use foresight to drive better business outcomes. IBM Business Analytics and Optimization solutions connect people with trusted, relevant information and foster a fact-based culture so organizations can confidently predict, plan and act. IBM's Business Analytics and Optimization capabilities include a full portfolio of software, spanning Business Analytics, Data Management, Enterprise Content Management and Information Integration and Governance, as well as systems optimized for specific analytic and transactional workloads. Over 7,700 BAO professionals provide deep industry and domain expertise, while IBM research provides unmatched advanced analytics innovations, solution centers and centers of competency. To learn more, please visit ibm.com/bao.


	A global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology, MicroStrategy enables organizations to report on, analyze, and monitor vast amounts of enterprise data to reveal trends and insights to make better business decisions. MicroStrategy's software is used by thousands of companies worldwide. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. MicroStrategy's BI platform delivers actionable information to business users via the web and mobile devices, including iPad, iPhone, and BlackBerry. MicroStrategy's architecture is engineered to provide the speed and scalability to support the escalating demands of mobile BI applications. MicroStrategy offers free reporting and mobile BI software that can be downloaded from its website. To learn more about MicroStrategy, please visit www.microstrategy.com, and follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/microstrategy) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/microstrategy).


	Aperio CI is regarded as the experts in telecoms data management. For two decades we have been delivering innovative data management solutions to critical marketing challenges for some of the world's leading telecoms operators. We understand that focused customer knowledge is paramount to implementing successful marketing campaigns. We recognize corporate challenges; disparate data solutions, legacy systems and internal resource constraints – hinders delivery of effective propositions to customers. We do not attempt to replace, rather fit right in-between existing systems, while also interfacing with external data sources. Aperio extracts the valuable customer data contained in these systems, and uses intelligence to drive customer interactions, hence increasing ROI.
	Critical decisions and processes depend on information that is spread across the organization in many formats - databases, SharePoint, documents, emails, surveys, call logs, etc. Attivio integrates and connects these diverse sources to help our customers not only understand "what" is happening, but also provide critical context to understand "why". Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine™ draws vital business signals from unstructured content, integrating those signals with Big Data sources for intuitive access and analysis by business users. AIE converges search, BI, data warehousing and analytic capabilities to drive innovation, maximize opportunities, control cost, and increase the value of every customer interaction.
	Fuzzy Logix is a leading predictive analytics software and services company. Fuzzy Logix enables companies to embed in-database analytics directly into their business processes, data warehouses, enterprise applications, devices, and web services. By directly integrating analytics into the areas where data already resides, Fuzzy Logix enables enormous processing efficiances and dramatically reduces the cycle time for analytics.


	ANALYTIX^TM Data Services provides data integration software and technology services to deliver data integration and business intelligence solution to its customers. Analytix ‘s flagship product ANALYTIX: Mapping Manager, is the first enterprise solution which comprises both a metadata & data mapping repository which solves the “Pre-ETL” Source -To -Target mapping problem and promotes better data quality surround the entire data mapping process. Accelerate project delivery by visiting Analytix at: http://www.analytixds.com
	Brightlight Consulting is a BI/DW consultancy dedicated to helping our clients get exactly the right information - to the right people - at the right time, to empower decision-making that will significantly improve profitability, cost efficiency and competitive advantage. Brightlight has extensive depth of knowledge in the Netezza platform having worked with 50+ Netezza clients since Netezza's inception. When combined with our capabilities in all the other disciplines of BI/DW, Brightlight can turn the power of Netezza into a game changing BI/DW Solution.
	Revolution Analytics delivers advanced analytics software at half the cost of existing solutions. By building on open source R—the world's most powerful statistics software—with innovations in big data analysis, integration and user experience, Revolution Analytics meets the demands and requirements of modern data-driven businesses.


	Aginity, the company behind the IBM-Netezza Customer Intelligence Appliance (CIA), helps companies build big data analytic solutions. Our solutions range from large enterprise warehouses to mission-critical applications that integrate analytics into the fabric of a company's operations. Our Aginity MPP Workbench is used by over 5,000 users at 600 Netezza customers to manage petabytes of data.
	Cloudera, the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services, enables enterprises to easily derive business value from their massive volumes of data. Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) is the most comprehensive and widely deployed open source Hadoop distribution. To quickly, reliably use Hadoop in production, organizations subscribe to Cloudera Enterprise.
	Composite Software is the data virtualization gold standard. Ten of the top 20 banks, six of the top ten pharmaceuticals, four of the top five energy firms, major media and technology organizations; and multiple government agencies with disparate, complex information environments count on Composite to increase their data agility, cut costs and reduce risk.
	Information Control Corporation is the largest privately held IT services provider in the Midwest. ICC uses Agile BI development methods to create focused efforts toward fixed goals. As a result, ICC can effectively create business solutions to solve business problems at the cost model of an off-shore operation. www.InformationControlCorporation.com.
	If you need Business Intelligence, you need iOLAP. For enterprise-class companies, we leverage our extensive knowledge of Business Intelligence technologies and methodologies to quickly develop and implement Data Warehouse and reporting solutions of the highest quality at a lower cost. Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing is all we do.
	Since 1997, Lancet has helped IT professionals and business leaders define, build, manage and learn the discipline of Business Intelligence—and excel at its application. More than 100 clients across the country rely on us for BI guidance, project execution, platform administration, custom visualizations and program support.
	Narus provides dynamic network traffic intelligence and analytics software that analyzes information on IP traffic and flow data to map the digital DNA (or behavior) of the network in real time. NarusInsight protects and manages the largest IP networks around the world including commercial and government installations on five continents.
	For over 30 years, New England Systems (NES) has earned the trust of companies large and small throughout the Northeast. Software, hardware, consulting, architecture design, application development, systems integration, IBM software evaluations and renewals, mentoring and training: we have the proven expertise, full product spectrum and first-line support necessary to meet IT and Business Analytics needs. www.nesystems.com
	QuantiSense's retail analytics and business intelligence solutions for Store Ops, Direct and Merchandising can be implemented in as little as 60 days. They include role-based dashboards and QuantiSense Playbooks™ to deliver actionable insight that translates directly into more full-price sales, fewer stock-outs and lost sales, and better inventory management.
	SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 50,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW.
	Systech Solutions, Inc. is a leading Business Intelligence solutions and services provider delivering high value quick to market and rapid ROI customer-focused solutions. Systech's core competencies include: Business Intelligence / Data warehousing, Industry specific BI solutions, Analytical Application Development, Dashboards and Scorecards for EPM/CPM, Onsite / Offshore Model.
	Ventraq solutions are deployed at communications operators throughout the globe, processing and analyzing billions of network events per day. The Ventraq solution provides network congestion analysis, customer experience management and revenue assurance.
	WisdomForce Technologies software efficiently moves massive amounts of data between different databases in a heterogeneous environment. DatabaseSync is a real-time Change Data Capture and data warehouse feed solution. DatabaseSync updates Netezza with the most recent transactional data changes in real-time. FastReader is a high-performance data extraction and migration solution. FastReader migrates large amounts of data into Netezza in a fraction of the usual time, without disrupting source system operation.

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