Customers

"Amazon.com is a data driven company. The data analysis capabilities provided by the Netezza system will be an important component in helping us make smart decisions for our customers."

Mark Dunlap, director of business intelligence, Amazon.com

"We carefully evaluated the Netezza Performance Server system, and found that it is a clearly superior solution that will enable us to bring an advanced degree of highly targeted, strategic programs to our clients in a more timely fashion."

Lance Williams, executive vice president, Merkle, Inc.

"We're getting up to 80 times the performance (vs. existing IBM system). Netezza is phenomenal. This is not a small change. This is radically different. The system is even better than what Netezza claims."

Don Parker, chief information officer, Shoppers Drug Mart

"Ahold views the data warehouse as central to the way we manage product availability and operations and increase customer satisfaction. We chose the NPS system because it delivers the increase in performance we wanted without causing us to re-engineer our entire CDW. Now, we can achieve results in minutes instead of hours, eliminating stale data and enabling us to be even more flexible and targeted with our decisions."

Al Clevenger, director of Data Management, Ahold USA

"In a very short period of time, the NPS system has proved its value and delivered what we expected—speed, power and unmatched capability for CDR analysis. Thanks to the combined support of Netezza and their systems integrator, Infogain, we have gone live on schedule. Now, the seamless transition to an expanded Netezza system means we can grow our BI system's capabilities and its resilience."

Judith Galpin, manager of Revenue Protection & Business Intelligence, Orange UK

"Our Informatics business intelligence products are some of the most valuable resources we provide to our alliance members and other hospitals. Netezza gives us the opportunity to improve and extend these services by powering the intelligence infrastructure that we use for queries of terabytes of data. When we validated the dramatic increase in flexibility, speed and overall performance of the NPS appliance, along with a lower total cost of ownership, the decision to replace our existing processing infrastructure was straightforward."

Gary Feierstein, vice president of Information Technology, Premier, Inc.

"Netezza's dramatic improvement in querying and reporting performance means we can make accurate, actionable data available to end users faster than ever before. Netezza's unique integration of database, server and storage into a single appliance enables us to reduce the time it takes to analyze data from days or hours to minutes or seconds. In addition to this unprecedented performance, the NPS system is extremely easy to administer and comes at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouses."

Joe Cira, vice president of production services, Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation

"Epsilon is in the business of managing and analyzing large databases for our clients on a wide variety of technologies and platforms. Our testing to date with the Netezza Performance Server has shown dramatic performance improvements over our existing systems. Netezza combines the key elements of every data warehousing environment--hardware, software and storage--into one easy-to-use system that works seamlessly with our BI applications, so we can deliver better and faster analyses to our clients."

Mike Coakley, vice president of Marketing Technology Products, Epsilon

" The NPS appliance offers Reach Telecom an easy-to-install system that can be rapidly deployed to deliver an immediate impact on our business, while also offering the power and capacity to scale with Reach Telecom's data processing and analysis needs as our business continues to grow. In addition to being low maintenance, the NPS appliance also reduces the manual aspects of reporting and analysis thereby freeing up IT and data analysis staff to focus on more strategic projects resulting in a subsequently higher return on investment."

Peter Green, managing director, Reach Telecom (now Caudwell Communications)

"Vibrant Solutions' market-leading Cost and Revenue Management software provides global telecommunications carriers with a number of high-performance applications that have already saved our customer base of tier-one service providers over $1.3 billion in the last five years. With constant and revolutionary change in the telecommunications environment such as 3G, the ability to quickly process and analyze billions of event records per day is critical. The Netezza Performance Server system provides both greater speed and performance than any other product on the market, enabling Vibrant Solutions' existing applications to become even more powerful. New analytic products that were previously impractical across the industry are now part of the company's short-term product roadmap."

Rick Mahuson, chief technology officer, Vibrant Solutions

"The NPS system dramatically decreases the time and cost to produce gene profiles, sequence comparison results, and more quickly enables researchers to make important discoveries. The NPS system delivers groundbreaking innovations and performance at the system architecture level, enabling genetic and other scientific researchers to analyze genomic data and combine it with other critical patient and clinical data. Managing a single copy of sequence data and associated structure data in a SQL database enables researchers to focus on important life sciences questions without having to worry about multiple copies of data in multiple formats that have to be kept in sync."

Marshall Peterson, CTO, J. Craig Venter Science Foundation

Analysts

"It is not just the price/performance of Netezza that provides an advantage but also its simplicity. The product is much simpler to install, use and manage than traditional solutions. As a result, total cost of ownership should also be a significant advantage."

Bloor Research

"In the past, adaptive project mart technology was mostly limited to software. But now there is a new twist for adaptive project marts. That twist is that there is a hardware solution that is available for adaptive project marts as well. That hardware is Netezza."

Bill Inmon, data warehouse industry expert, Business Intelligence Network

"The one to watch in the analytic infrastructure space is Netezza, with its change-the-rules approach to extreme analytic performance using proprietary hardware and heavily tweaked open source DBMS."

Doug Laney, vice president, META Group

"The ability to analyze data is rapidly becoming one of the defining features of successful businesses. As organizations continue to realize the important role that data can play in making better business decisions, there has become a need within the VLDB (very large database) market for products that provide a higher level of performance than traditional data warehousing technologies at an affordable price."

Charlie Garry, senior program director, META Group

"The Netezza Performance Server is a promising new entry in the world of very large analytic databases. For companies that need extreme performance at an affordable price, Netezza offers a special-purpose appliance for the growing needs of Business Intelligence users."

Richard Winter, president, Winter Corporation

"With these kind of numbers, the Netezza appliance is ready to set the world on its ear. Who won't want a system capable of eliminating such a huge percentage of wasted time? If this appliance gives users 50 percent of what I've seen, they better reinforce the front doors. I haven't seen something with this much disruptive potential in years."

Steve Duplessie, senior analyst and founder, Enterprise Storage Group

"The NPS appliance enables companies to conduct sophisticated data analysis at an attractive price point. It combines the ease of use of an appliance model, a breakthrough architecture, and a cost effective approach that allows companies to leverage their existing BI technology. Companies that rely on data intensive analytic processes can benefit by being able to dig into their data to increase information flow and business productivity."

Henry Morris, group vice president, Applications and Information Access, IDC

"At current price points the NPS appliance has provided considerable improvements in processing speed for companies that have implemented the appliance. With the introduction of these new configurations, Netezza has further increased the storage capacity, data loading and query processing speeds of the NPS appliance, enabling improvements in data management productivity and decision-making processes."

Henry Morris, group vice president, Applications and Information Access, IDC

"The time for a purpose-built, business analytics-dedicated, open standards-based data appliance may indeed have arrived. Netezza Performance Server is certainly a revolutionary offering. While it may be possible today to replicate NPS's performance using general-purpose database, server, and storage products, it would be impossible to do so at comparable prices."

Dan Vesset, research manager, Analytics and Data Warehousing, IDC

"As a result of productivity improvements in laboratory equipment and methods, organizations engaged in life sciences R&D are challenged by the explosive growth in data volumes. By introducing its latest, biology-aware version of the Business Intelligence appliance, Netezza is bringing the ease-of-use and performance benefits of the NPS system to the life sciences informatics industry. Combined with its SQL-BLAST capability, the new system enables improvements in data management productivity and decision-making processes for researchers and scientists.

Dan Vesset, research manager, Analytics and Data Warehousing, IDC

"Although analyzing data and making decisions may be an art, delivering data to decision makers doesn't have to be. Netezza's innovative new data appliance transforms data warehousing from alchemy to rote science, allowing organizations to focus their efforts on analyzing data rather than preparing and delivering it."

Wayne Eckerson, director of Education and Research, The Data Warehousing Institute

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