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Business Intelligence
in a Real-Time World
Business
Intelligence has reached a new level of importance for
decision makers. Capturing data-from customers, partners,
employees and operations-has always been a part of running
a business, but using this information proactively has
become essential. Business Intelligence (BI) can be the
difference between reacting to problems and anticipating
opportunities, the difference between educated guesses
and proactive decisions based on firm facts. |
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Customer Service
Program
Netezza Customer
Service is an organization built for one task - taking
care of our customers. When our customers have an issue
or question, we give them exactly what they need - a knowledgeable
and experienced Support Engineer or Technical Account
Manager (TAM) on the other end of the line (or onsite);
someone who will listen; someone who will take ownership
for resolving a customer's concern. Additionally, we have
created online resources to help our customers help themselves,
including a knowledge base, technical publications and
a best practices forum for the exchange of ideas. Netezza
is committed to being easy to do business with, and our
one focus is on making our customers successful - one
call to us and we work with the customer towards resolution. |
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Data-Centric
Computing with the Netezza Architecture
While
relational databases have become critically important
in business applications and web services, they have played
a relatively minor role in scientific computing, which
has generally been concerned with modeling and simulation
activities. However, massively parallel database architectures
are beginning to offer the ability to quickly search through
terabytes of data with hundred-fold or even thousand-fold
speedup over server-based architectures. These new machines
may enable an entirely new class of algorithms for scientific
applications, especially when the fundamental computation
involves searching through abstract graphs. |
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Data Warehouse
Appliance Breaks the Latency Barrier
Latency
is an ongoing threat to data warehouses of multi-terabyte
size. Speed is vital, and delays in finding nuggets of
information are an albatross when you're up against aggressive,
fast-moving competitors. |
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Data Warehouse
Appliance Platform: Why Choose Netezza?
When
making product decisions for a data warehousing (DW) environment,
the database platform is of utmost importance. It should
be chosen with care and with active discernment over the
issues and marketing messages. The landscape for this
selection has changed. It is now much more of a valuebased
proposition. The architectural offerings have moved beyond
the traditional MPP or clustered SMP, which have been
the standards for many years. |
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Data Warehouse
Appliances: An Architectural Comparison
Data
is flowing into organizations at unprecedented rates.
With the growth of e-business, wireless communications,
RFID and other technologies, many large enterprises collect
hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes of detailed data
every few weeks. Fast, comprehensive analysis of this
data can provide vital information about customers, products
and operations, helping increase profitability and market
share. |
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Data Warehouse
Appliances Overcome the Technology Bottleneck
Effective use of Business Intelligence
(BI) can make or break a company. Data-intensive organizations
across many industries are collecting terabytes of dynamic,
detailed data on a daily basis. The timely and comprehensive
analysis of this vast amount of data is vital. |
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Data Warehousing without the Complexity: How the Simplicity of the NPS® Data Warehouse Appliance Lowers TCO
With
its Netezza Performance Server® (NPS) family of data
warehouse appliances, Netezza has created a new paradigm
in data warehousing. As the world's first data warehouse
appliance, the NPS system dramatically changes data center
operations, improving query performance by orders of magnitude.
Customers worldwide have recognized the market-leading
performance of the NPS system and its ability to power
deep analyses of customer and operational data. |
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Large Scale
Use of the Netezza Performance Server® System
WinterCorp, an expert in large scale
data management and a consultant to leading enterprises
on data warehouse architecture and scalability, has closely
tracked the development of data warehouse appliances with
interest—and with a lot of questions. One of the
most interesting questions to us was this: on just how
large a scale are these appliances going to be any good? |
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Streaming Analytics
and Intelligent Storage for the Life Sciences
There is a critical need for a powerful
database system that can warehouse and integrate massive
amounts of laboratory and clinical data from disparate
sources, performing fast ad hoc analyses while remaining
easy to use. Netezza has developed a high-performance
analytic appliance with proven utility for the life sciences.
The system is optimized for very large database integration,
ad hoc queries and searches within analytical, laboratory,
pharmaceutical and healthcare data. Netezza's streaming
analytic appliance integrates a standards-based SQL software
engine with customizable analytical function and algorithmic
capabilities for scientific data. |
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Streaming Analytics
with the Netezza Performance Server® Appliance
As the pioneer in appliances for
analytic processing, Netezza recognized years ago that
operating at streaming speeds can be game-changing for
data-intensive companies. The architecture of its Netezza
Performance Server® (NPS®) system is based on
this principle, improving performance by orders of magnitude.
Netezza customers around the world and across many industries
are reaping the benefits — wherever critical information is needed
urgently. |
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The Critical
Shift to Flexible Business Intelligence: What Every Marketer
Wants—And Needs—From Technology
Business
Intelligence, or BI for short, evolved and matured considerably
in the last 20 years. Today, for-profit, non-profit, and
government enterprises can easily and affordably leverage
proven BI architectures and state of the art BI hardware
and software solutions. Like never before, enterprises
are technologically empowered to reach their goals of
integrating, analyzing, and making decisions based on
their data. |
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The Green Revolution
in Data Warehousing: The Power, Cooling and Footprint
Advantages of the Netezza Analytic Appliance
Skyrocketing power costs and finite
power availability are forcing many companies to re-examine
their IT strategies and budgets. With their intense workload
— dozens or hundreds of processors and
large numbers of spinning disk drives straining over massive
queries — data warehouse systems based on general-purpose
designs have long been one of the major consumers of power.
As data volumes continue to grow and complexity of the
enterprise analytic environment increases, companies will
continue striving for a competitive edge through better-performing
data warehousing and analytic infrastructures. The Netezza
Performance Server® (NPS®) analytic appliance
redefines energy efficiency in data warehousing, while
providing cost-effective query performance beyond the
reach of other systems. |
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The Netezza
FAST Engines Framework: A Powerful Framework for High-Performance
Analytics
Companies around
the world who run their businesses on Netezza Performance
Server® (NPS®) streaming analytic appliances rely
on Netezza's industry-leading analytic price/performance
and simplicity. Through its unique Asymmetric Massively
Parallel Processing (AMPP) architecture, the NPS system
combines the operational simplicity of an SMP node for
administration with the raw performance horsepower of
an MPP grid of intelligent storage nodes, each containing
its own disk drive, CPU, memory and a key programmable
hardware element known as a Field Programmable Gate Array
(FPGA). As a result, the system executes analytical queries
at streaming speeds - as rapidly as data can be read from
disk - by leveraging the FPGA technology as a critical
system performance multiplier. |
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Transforming Telecommunications: Real-Time, Comprehensive Analyses for Proactive Business Decisions
In today's
extremely challenging business environment, many telecommunications
carriers are measuring their success by the size and growth
of their profit margins. As a result, carriers are under
intense pressure to reduce or eliminate the major threats
to these slim margins. |
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Unleashing
Enterprise Business Intelligence in an Era of Affordable
Computing Resources
Well
into its second decade as a mainstream concept, data warehousing
has grown into a sizeable industry but, in many ways,
it has not lived up to its promise. Only a small percentage
of knowledge workers in organizations use Business Intelligence
(BI) tools as a regular part of their work and a large
portion of analytical work to support decision-making
is still done elsewhere. |