Read what people are saying about Netezza and the Netezza Performance Server^® appliance:

Customers

"We replaced our existing IBM infrastructure with Netezza due primarily to the significant performance gains demonstrated by the NPS system during an extensive evaluation period. Our incumbent data warehouse was struggling to process data in an acceptable timeframe, especially during our peak seasons. We look forward to leveraging the power of Netezza to optimize our operational BI and maximize customer satisfaction throughout Helzberg stores nationwide."

-Greg Backhus, director of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Helzberg Diamonds

"We found ourselves spending a lot of time creating aggregate tables and tuning to optimize performance rather then developing more value added information/analytics. We were able to eliminate much of the tuning work and begin to focus more on adding value. This is a big win for a company like Michaels that is moving into an era of detailed analytics to help guide our business."

-Mike Jones, CIO, Michaels Stores. Inc.

"With data volumes growing at 100 to 200 percent each year, we worried about scalability and performance issues with our previous data warehouse environment, which was also very complex and expensive to maintain. Netezza's simplicity allowed us to quickly implement the NPS systems. With the incredible performance benefits and improved time to market we are now realizing, we can easily keep pace as data volumes spike. Netezza has simplified our entire data warehouse environment."

-Brian Clark, chief architect and managing director, NYSE Euronext

"The Netezza project was a big success here at CompuCredit...we did our preliminary tests and the results were extremely impressive - it's profitable. Immediately throughout the company we started getting a buzz for, 'What is this new product Netezza?'"

-Patrick Fallon, project manager, CompuCredit

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"The main reason for migrating was we had a need for analyzing massive amounts of data. Every call generates five to six different transactions, which we're analyzing in order to determine quality margins, and revenues. It is a massive compilation of analytics on data to determine what's the best route for traffic; what's the best quality; what's the best margins; and what's the best for profits overall."

-Mark Saponar, vice president of Information Systems, iBasis

"Improving customer service and keeping costs down are very important to us. Netezza's performance and ease of use allow us to provide our business users with a comprehensive view of the business when they need it, while allowing us to realize substantial cost savings for our business."

-Steve Booma, executive vice president Sales, Marketing, Service and Information Technology, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

"We set out to develop an online service that would enable our customers to have simple and intuitive access to the intelligence related to their office supply purchases. And after evaluating numerous data warehouse solutions, including Teradata, we chose Netezza for this essential customer-focused initiative due to Netezza's ability to power our needs for rapid response and performance when thousands of users could be accessing the service."

-Matt Schwartz, director of Business Analysis, Corporate Express US

"The project started at Telewest, where we had a data warehouse in place to capture CDRs for regulatory compliance, network routing and telephony high usage analysis. But, owing to the performance issues with the older architecture, we were restricted to querying data specific to international, mobile and premium rate calls for high usage analysis. Now, with Netezza, we're able to analyse all call types and run historical reports. It's a huge step forward for our credit services and revenue assurance teams to be able to interrogate customer data in real time."

-Howard Watson, chief technology and information officer, Virgin Media

"We needed a business intelligence solution that would provide us with scalability and easy access to integrated and more detailed information to allow us to spend more time analyzing the data. We evaluated several solutions and felt that Netezza's data warehouse appliance provided us with the flexibility and speed we needed, and the enterprise-class capabilities we required, with very little overhead and maintenance costs. We have completed the successful implementation of the NPS system throughout our retail stores and plan to roll it out in our direct response and our Music & Arts divisions. Ultimately, we will have easy access to integrated information across all of our divisions and will be able to make more informed decisions as we analyze a wider array of detailed sales, advertising and promotion, store operations, vendor and customer data."

-John Zavada, CIO, Guitar Center

"Space and power are always at a premium within our data centres. The NPS solution saved large amounts of both whilst providing increased performance. The speed and ease of deployment was an added bonus."

-Mike Wheeler, senior data centre engineer, Orange

"Before Netezza, we were not confident that our existing data warehouse system would keep up with our increased demand for more detailed analytics and data. Since implementing Netezza as our EDW, we are now running up to 22,000 queries each day, with over 600 users accessing the system. With Netezza we will be able to run complex analyses by product, store and date, as well as leverage new analytics against transaction-level data, including market basket analyses."

-Mike Jones, CIO, Michaels Stores, Inc.

"When evaluating providers to power our business intelligence and data warehouse initiative, we were impressed with Netezza's performance, as well as its proven track record and strong customer references in retail. Netezza's high-performance data warehouse appliance engine provides a perfect complement to the QuantiSense/MicroStrategy application suite, offering a completely integrated multi-channel BI solution right out of the box, and delivering a single and consistent view of our business across the enterprise."

-Ron Ehlers, vice president of Information Systems, Pacific Sunwear

"Since we first installed the Netezza system, we have added at least half as much data again to the database, yet still achieve the same speed of response. Performance doesn't seem to be affected no matter how much data we throw at it!"

-Sylvia Sawkins, manager of Data Control, Orange

"With Netezza, we analyze data related to transport and logistics as well as our commercial transactions much better and faster - it's fundamental to our business success. Staying well-informed helps us to better manage our relationships with growers and buyers as well as to define product strategy and pricing."

-Hans Uithol, CIO, FloraHolland

"Traditionally, IT has had to spend a lot of time on what I would consider the more technical aspects of getting a data warehouse or business intelligence system up and running. It was complex; we spent a lot of time on performance and data modification. In this new (Netezza) environment, we have spent less time on that and we've been able to spend more time on the business, which is more relevant and exciting."

-Michael Kobayashi, senior vice president and chief information officer, Ross Stores

"There's a lot of horsepower (with Netezza). If the old solution was a V-6 engine, now we've got a V-10."

-Scott Lindblom, vice president of Applications, Ross Stores

"Improving informational data management, with tools like the NPS system, will help expand our Business Intelligence capabilities. As we elevate the impact of marketing and sales processes going forward, BI capabilities will become an essential and increasingly important area of investment. We fully expect this technology to result in better performance, enhanced flexibility and increased cost savings across the organization."

-Tim Lyons, vice president, Business Solution Services, Nationwide Financial

"We have a small staff responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting our data warehouse platform. We chose Netezza for its low total cost of ownership, low maintenance and high performance. The inherent simplicity and ease of use of the Netezza appliance will allow us to analyze the data we need quickly and easily, without requiring the administration necessary with other systems. We will initially be using the Netezza appliance as a data warehouse for merchandise analysis, while laying the foundation to expand into an enterprise data warehouse."

-Frank Andryauskas, CIO, KB Toys

"The ability to quickly retrieve and analyze large volumes of detailed data by hundreds of concurrent users was a major factor in selecting Netezza as our data warehouse system. With Netezza, we will have faster insight into our data from multiple departments throughout the Company. This increased visibility will enable our whole team, from executives to analysts, to make better, faster decisions and capitalize on new opportunities."

-Tim Armstrong, director of Analytical Business Solutions, KB Toys

"It became clear that we needed to make a change. Our existing solution was not keeping up with our growing business demands, nor was it putting us in a position to accommodate new business. We needed to break the cycle of more data, more requirements, more money and the answer was Netezza. Our traditional data warehouse environment made it incredibly difficult to scale on an as-needed basis, both in terms of timing and cost. We were constantly wrestling with purchasing decisions and capacity concerns. By selecting the Netezza data warehouse appliance, we are able to meet the current and future needs of our business and make the important shift from being an infrastructure-oriented company to a customer-focused company."

-Emory Heisler, vice president, Global Information Technology Services, Wolters Kluwer Health

"With Netezza, queries that used to take hours can be run in under twenty seconds. It is a dream to think that we can now run all of our reports without any tuning. Because of the complexity of our data models, running queries on the data in our previous Oracle environment required much tuning, and was often impossible to complete. Because of the performance benefits and ease of use that we have experienced with the Netezza system, our administrative efficiency has more than doubled and we plan to run our entire corporate business intelligence analytics on Netezza."

-Stéphane Dodier, senior director of the project management office, La Capitale General Insurance

"Netezza partnered with us on a plan to re-platform our enterprise data warehouse. They helped us to deliver considerable value to our business by executing that initiative successfully and ahead of schedule. By moving to Netezza, we now have a more predictable and efficient data warehouse system. We are pleased with the new capabilities provided by Netezza. They've been an excellent business partner, exceeding our expectations."

-Scott Lindblom, vice president of Applications, Ross Stores, Inc.

"The Netezza appliance allows the DNC to process the 200 million files - one for each voter - and 900 fields for each file 20 times faster than it could in the past. Since the overhaul, the DNC has increased the number of high-quality phone numbers in its database by 20%."

-Ben Self, director of technology, DNC

Speed of analysis can have a huge impact on profitability. "If I can get a current view of my margin that's up-to-the-second, it can completely change our view of the network and which provider we're using." Speed is also crucial in monitoring call data reports that spot quality problems. Those reports aggregate an enormous amount of data, but what previously took "several hours to several days" (on the Oracle/Sun/EMC systems) is now "a matter of seconds" (with Netezza).

-Mark Saponar, vice president of Information Systems, iBasis

"By moving our data warehouse to Netezza, the business has timely access to data and is empowered to run queries we could never run before. From the beginning, we were impressed with Netezza, and they have far exceeded our expectations."

-Mike Kobayashi, chief information officer, Ross Stores, Inc.

"When we had a data warehouse that updated every few weeks, we could only use it for long term trend analysis. Now, we use it to provide more operational information, like the current status of a customer. Going forward, we will use the data warehouse increasingly as an operational tool."

-Steve Hawkins, senior designer, Orange UK

"Because of the size of our datasets, our old systems required us to really think about any deep analysis that we needed to do, and spend a lot of time and effort up front in coming up with the tables, indexes and storage models before running the analysis. Given the fast paced nature of our business, often by the time we came up with the right approach the question the analysis was designed to answer was no longer relevant. Netezza freed us from this un-productive cycle. Netezza has given us a whole new level of diagnostic capabilities allowing us to easily explore our data in all its color and come up with fast answers that help the business quickly identify promising ideas."

-Craig Woods, manager, Click Stream Processing, Amazon.com

"As the world's largest mobile phone vendor, keeping pace with customer demands, an advancing product portfolio and numerous business acquisitions is paramount. The performance and simplicity of the Netezza data warehouse appliance allows us to run fast analyses on more data across more areas of our business. From core telco records to revenue assurance, the NPS system underpins some of our most critical business strategies."

-Dave Parfett, head of Business Intelligence CoE, The Carphone Warehouse

"The Netezza User Conference was the best Information Technology user conference I have attended in that the speakers presented information that was incredibly innovative and relevant to my needs. The networking events also gave me and my team an opportunity to hear first-hand how our peers are using the Netezza data warehouse appliance to achieve tangible business success."

-Allen L. Hobson, chief information officer, Office of the Inspector General, Department of Veterans Affairs

"As a leader in the commoditized business of international voice services, our ability to manage our business at a very high level of granularity has been an important factor in our success and our continued dramatic growth. With more than eight billion records in our database and 140 million transactions registered daily, the data warehousing and business intelligence capabilities we achieve by combining the power of the NPS system and the unique processing capabilities of Sunopsis Data Conductor is going to help us to continue scaling our business and to reach our goal of becoming the number 1 provider of international voice services in the world."

-Paul Floyd, senior vice president of Research and Development, Operations, and Engineering, iBasis

"The NPS system's ability to analyze terabytes of data gives us the technology power and speed we need to support the present and future needs of our business. By overcoming existing warehouse limitations, we are able to serve our current customers better, while also taking a more proactive approach to meeting and exceeding our growing data needs."

-Guido Sacchi, chief information officer and SVP, Corporate Strategies, CompuCredit

"Using the NPS system as our Customer Data Warehouse allows us to analyze higher volumes of market basket data faster and at a more detailed level, and significantly improve customer experience and retention across nearly 650 stores. Although our data has been steadily increasing by the terabyte, the NPS system lets us process, store and manage this data in record time and at a lower cost. As a result, today we are running 133% as many analyst reports by nearly 20% more users and overall our productivity has increased by 25%. And the lower total cost of ownership of the NPS system means we've substantially reduced the overall cost of our data warehouse."

-Brent Buelo, manager, Data Warehouse Services, Ahold

"Because we've created and maintain the industry's largest and most robust mortgage servicing database, the speed and comprehensiveness of our data analysis is critical to our institutional customers. Deploying the NPS data warehouse appliance allows us to run analyses against terabytes of data at a rapid rate, which translates to better and faster service to our customers."

-Dan Feshbach, chief executive officer, LoanPerformance

"Our sophisticated back office systems have enabled us to turn complexity into competitive advantage by giving us the ability to manage the routing and rating of millions of international calls at a very high level of granularity. Deploying the NPS data warehouse appliance enhances that ability while providing significant operating efficiencies. It will be a vital tool in accelerating future improvements, growth and profitability."

-Paul Floyd, senior vice president of engineering, R&D and operations, iBasis

"Using the Netezza data warehouse appliance we can shrink query times. Until now, we have traditionally started loading trading data from the previous week into the data mart every Sunday. This could take the entire day to complete and sometimes into Monday morning. The NPS data warehouse appliance is capable of executing this task in a fraction of the time."

-Steve Kircher, IT director, Debenhams

"The combination of QuantiSense's integrated multi-channel retail BI solution running on Netezza's powerful platform puts very detailed information at our fingertips and, in the short time we've been using this data warehouse appliance, we're seeing benefits from the improved business intelligence. The Netezza/QuantiSense solution delivered on the promise that it would be implemented and delivering results in less than 100 days."

-Jeff Turner, chief information officer, Restoration Hardware

"The NPS data warehouse appliance offers good value for the money. The price/performance ratio was a good fit for us, and we were impressed by the potential speed of deployment - two weeks from point of order in our case. The general manageability was also attractive to us. Until now, tasks such as adding a process for example, were extremely resource-intensive. This resulted in undesirable risk, time wastage and expense. We needed a better, cheaper way to manage the warehouse, so we chose Netezza."

-Dave Parfett, head of Relational Technologies CoE, The Carphone Warehouse

"Catalina found that the Netezza data warehouse appliance could reduce response time 'from an hour to a minute.' Overall, it gave Catalina's database program 'more scale and robustness.' Catalina's IT team is now moving years of transaction data to the Netezza platform. 'Every week we launch another retailer on Netezza.'"

-Eric Williams, chief information officer, Catalina Marketing

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

-Mark Dunlap, director of Business Intelligence, Amazon.com

"Ahold ran the 72-hour query on Netezza's data warehouse appliance, which did it in one four-hour pass. 'We were like, "Where do we sign?" The performance was just awesome.' On top of that, the system was two-thirds the cost of the Oracle-based data warehouse, including ongoing support and maintenance."

-Al Clevenger, director of Data Management & Data Warehouse Services, Ahold USA

"It's borderline mind-boggling how fast this thing is. Netezza's system takes 45 minutes to perform a series of queries on 250 million records that a 16-processor Oracle system would need more than six hours to complete."

-Mike Coakley, vice president of Marketing Technology, Epsilon

"We carefully evaluated the Netezza Performance Server data warehouse appliance, 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 data warehouse appliance 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 data warehouse appliance 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 & Data Warehouse Services, Ahold USA

"In a very short period of time, the NPS data warehouse appliance has proved its value and delivered what we expected—speed, power and unmatched capability for CDR analysis. 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 data warehouse appliance 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 data warehouse appliance 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 data warehouse appliance 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 data warehouse appliance 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 data warehouse appliance 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

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Analysts

"Netezza is well positioned to take advantage of retailers' rapidly increasing interest in business intelligence and demand forecasting, and its lower costs (from the use of commodity hardware and heavily modified open source database software) appeal in an industry with tight IT budgets."

-Janet Suleski, John Hagerty, AMR Research

"Since Netezza launched the first data warehouse appliance in 2002, we have watched the company, and the data warehouse appliance category in general, grow with strong momentum. Not only is Netezza's customer base expanding rapidly, but so too are the databases being deployed on its systems, indicating that data warehouse appliances are gaining a foothold in larger scale data warehouse applications."

-Richard Winter, president, WinterCorp

"Based on our own market research and Netezza's continued success, the adoption of data warehouse and business intelligence appliances is not just a passing trend. Netezza is the pioneer and continues to be the current leader in the market for data warehouse appliances and, according to our studies, the market's awareness of Netezza is rising."

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

"A Netezza rack holding 5.5Tb of user data (16.5Tb actual capacity) has a power rating of just 4,180 watts and, of course, there is commensurately low heat output. Given the current pressures on data centres this is a significant advantage that Netezza has not made as much of as it might."

-Philip Howard, director of Research - Technology, Bloor

"Given all of this (that Netezza offers), and adding in the rich set of new features in the company's roadmap, there is no reason to expect Netezza to do anything but go from strength to strength."

-Philip Howard, director of Research - Technology, Bloor

"TDWI Research shows that a new slew of multi-terabyte data warehouses has arrived in recent years, and another slew is coming in late 2007. Data warehouses will experience on average at least 33 percent annual growth in data volumes, 50 percent or more when subject to aggressive collections of customer, supply chain, eCommerce or compliance data. Users need to plan capacity for this flood of multi-terabyte data, by relying on data warehouse platforms that are optimized out of the box for data warehouse-scale queries and expand easily with minimal administration."

-Philip Russom, senior manager of research, TDWI

" The SAP NetWeaver platform delivers a valuable business intelligence infrastructure. Combining the performance benefits of the Netezza Performance Server system with the existing strengths of the SAP platform promises that customers can add to their BI capabilities and gain a significant competitive advantage in the data-driven economy."

-Richard Winter, president, WinterCorp

" Collaborating and enhancing integration with leading BI and data integration partners has allowed Netezza to amplify its market presence and solidify its position in the data warehouse appliance space. Netezza's momentum is proof that the data warehouse appliance market is growing strong and here to stay."

-Claudia Imhoff, president and founder, Intelligent Solutions, Inc.

"The data warehouse appliance market is gaining momentum because these systems address the need for greater analytic performance at a lower cost. As the market evolves, customers will continue to benefit from more flexible scaling and pricing options to suit their organizational needs."

-Donald Feinberg, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner

"Netezza's expansion in the European market reflects its success in North America and the value of its data warehouse appliance approach. The price/performance advantage and simplicity of its system offer data-intensive companies worldwide an innovative data warehouse alternative to traditional systems."

-Philip Howard, research director, Bloor Research

"Netezza's sweet spot is large, high-end database systems, like credit prospecting systems. More importantly, Netezza's appliance approach requires significantly less care and feeding than standard relational databases, thereby decreasing total cost of ownership."

-Eric Schmitt, analyst, Forrester Research

"IT appliances directed at minimizing application complexity while still providing the required functionality and performance in a way that doesn't dramatically increase IT support resources are needed. Having the ability to crunch significant volumes of data without hiring two or three administrators is very compelling."

-Scott Langdoc, vice president, AMR Research

"Through our research and regular dialog with TDWI members, it is clear that there is a strong and growing interest in data warehouse appliances. Our Tech Survey results show that appliances are perceived as bringing innovation and business benefits to the data warehouse industry."

-Philip Russom, senior manager of research and services, TDWI

"What is needed is a new paradigm. Ideally you would like to have some kind of filtering process within the processing units to remove most of the unwanted data. Then you would process only the data that is of interest rather than sorting through everything. And only the relevant data would be returned to the person issuing the request. This is the idea behind the data warehouse appliance, pioneered by Netezza."

-Dr. Claudia Imhoff, president, Intelligent Solutions, Inc.

"With data volumes on the rise, business organizations require technologies that can perform comprehensive, complex data analyses to align with strategic goals, without incurring substantial costs. New offerings like data warehouse appliances provide a high-performance, low-cost solution to the market."

-Donald Feinberg, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner Inc.

"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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