from DSSResources.comTUŠ Telekom advances analytics with NetezzaLjubljana, Slovenia., July 8, 2008 —- Netezza (NYSE Arca: NZ) today announced that TUŠ Telekom will standardized its data warehouse on Netezza’s market-leading data warehouse appliance technology. Slovenia’s newest supplier of mobile telecommunications, broadband, IPTV and VoIP will use the Netezza system for advanced analytics such as customer segmentation, churn prediction, pricing simulations and usage control and will soon extend this to include revenue assurance. Klemen Lavrac, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Manager at TUŠ Telekom explained, “One of the ways we can gain an advantage over our competitors is with the sophisticated analysis of our customer database, network usage and traffic. In order to be effective, this analysis has to be fast, accurate and consistent. So, we decided to move our data to a fully integrated Netezza data warehouse. The project was scoped on a forward-looking quantity of data and high expectations for customer responsiveness. Our systematic survey of the market has shown that our requirements are best served by Netezza, whose technology is, in our opinion, the most advanced in the business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing market by several years.” Joe Napoli, Director of International Distribution at Netezza added, “The data warehouse is being implemented by our Slovenian partner, crmT, a specialist in BI and data warehousing. TUŠ Telekom believes that the combined effect of crmT’s expertise and support along with Netezza’s technology gives them a substantial advantage in a very competitive telecoms industry. The Company aims to become the operator providing most advanced services in Slovenia.” The Netezza Performance Server® (NPS®) family of data warehouse appliances is designed specifically for high-performance, terascale analytics and architecturally integrates a relational database, server and storage into a single compact and power-efficient unit. The system’s advantage comes from its patented streaming architecture. Netezza has placed processing power next to the data, so analysis occurs at the source at streaming speeds, delivering an unprecedented 10-100 times the performance of traditional systems at a fraction of the cost. Analyses that took days now take just seconds. This means a dramatic increase in productivity across the enterprise and faster time to value for business initiatives. Netezza appliances are changing the way organizations leverage information, creating a powerful analytic foundation for a new generation of business analytics that improve strategic decision-making and drive results. About Netezza Netezza is the global leader in data warehouse appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics for business users across the extended enterprise, delivering significant competitive and operational advantage in today’s information-intensive marketplaces. The Netezza Performance Server® (NPS®) family of streaming analytic™ appliances brings appliance simplicity to a broad range of complex data warehouse and analytic challenges. Customers who have realized the benefits of Netezza appliances include Ahold, Amazon.com, CNET Networks, Debenhams, Department of Veterans Affairs, Epsilon, Nationwide, Neiman Marcus, Orange UK, Premier, Inc., Ross Stores, Ryder System, Inc., The Carphone Warehouse, Telekom Slovenia and Virgin Media. Based in Marlborough, Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom, Canada and Asia Pacific. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com. |