LAS VEGAS - (Business Wire) Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ), the global leader in
analytic appliances, today announced that its developer network has spawned a series of innovative new applications, including a free database compatibility kit designed by Edge Associates. The Netezza Developer Network (NDN) is a program that enables developers to leverage Netezza
’s high-performance, streaming analytic
™ appliance platform to design and develop applications and algorithms for competitive advantage. Edge Associates, a UK-based data warehousing and BI services company, is to demonstrate its expertise of the Netezza platform with the launch of ECLIPSE
– the
Edge
Compatibility
Library
In
Performance
Server
Environments. This free compatibility library is designed specifically for organisations planning to migrate to Netezza from a legacy database such as IBM DB2 or Oracle.
Andy Goldthorpe, Director at Edge Associates explains, “Having worked on Netezza implementations at organisations such as Debenhams, Orange, The Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media, we’ve amassed a significant level of specialist expertise. ECLIPSE will make it even quicker and easier for users to make the move to Netezza in the data centre. In addition, Edge plans to develop a licensed product which structures raw web log data to support web analytics. This is essential to any online or ecommerce business relying on weblogs to track website activity, such as unique users and page impressions, and perform clickstream analysis.”
The Company also plans to develop a set of binning algorithms that pre-process data on Netezza to create structured data sets readily usable for data mining.
Dave Kloc, vice president, European Operations for Netezza adds, “Our NDN provides member customers, developers, systems integrators, technology partners and academics with widespread support for the creation of a new generation of ground-breaking, non-SQL analytics. Participant members each receive a development “toolbox,” containing four of Netezza’s innovative Snippet Processing Units and a software development kit. This effectively opens our technology to allow visionaries and innovators to share knowledge and learn how Netezza’s streaming architecture can become the backbone for future application development and create more powerful ways to unlock the intelligence in their data.”
Designed specifically for high-performance, terascale analytics, the Netezza system 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 many hours 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.
To learn more about the Netezza Developer Network, please visit www.netezza.com/ndn.
About Edge Associates
Edge Associates is the professional services business specialising in large scale data warehousing and business intelligence. For further information see www.edge-a.co.uk, or call 0845 053 3485.
About Netezza Corporation
Netezza is the global leader in data warehouse and analytic 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, Neiman Marcus, Orange UK, Premier, Inc., Ross Stores, Ryder System, Inc., The Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media. Based in Framingham, Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.
Netezza, Netezza Performance Server, NPS and streaming analytic are trademarks of Netezza Corporation.
Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Edge Associates
Andy Goldthorpe, +44 (0)845 053 3485
andrew.goldthorpe@edge-a.co.uk
or
Proud Public Relations
Natalie Sutton/Clare Shephard, +44 (0)1276 679570
netezza@proudpr.com
