BITanium, a specialised business intelligence service provider in South Africa, today announced a relationship with Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances.
Through this agreement, BITanium and Netezza create a fully-fledged capability to provide the Netezza experience of performance and simplicity in the South African and broader African markets.
Based in Johannesburg, BITanium has a strong presence in the South African BI landscape, working with technologies from most of the major BI vendors.
Chris O'Connell, BITanium Managing Director, says: “Netezza frees up valuable resources, traditionally committed to simply running the database, to now focus on delivering business value to our customers. The Netezza appliance enables us to deliver 10-100 times the performance at half the cost of traditional data warehouse solutions. Our customers are now able to perform analytics previously undreamt of due to the unparalleled performance of the Netezza appliance.”
Netezza's TwinFin data warehouse appliance consists of Netezza software running on a configuration of commercially available, industry standard blade servers. Netezza's hallmark performance is achieved through its patented software streaming architecture and a set of database accelerator cards that are seamlessly integrated with the blade servers. Netezza's unique streaming architecture will help address the expanded data needs of organisations in industries that include telecommunications, financial services, retail, digital media and the public sector, as these industries typically have the largest data volumes.
“South Africa is a key market for Netezza,” said Alan Cornwell, Vice-President of EMEA Operations at Netezza. “We already have a number of installations there, and we are very pleased with the acceptance that we have already gained among key corporate clients. As the economic powerhouse on the continent, we further believe that South Africa will give us a springboard to deliver value throughout Africa. BITanium's expertise in delivering cost-effective BI solutions means that it is perfectly placed to leverage the simplicity, extreme performance and low total cost of ownership of the Netezza solution.”
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Netezza Corporation
Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ) is the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics across an extended enterprise. Netezza's technology enables organisations to process enormous amounts of captured data at exceptional speed, providing a significant competitive and operational advantage in today's data-intensive industries, including digital media, energy, financial services, government, health and life sciences, retail and telecommunications. Netezza is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts and has offices in Northern Virginia, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Korea, Australia and Singapore. For more information about Netezza, please visit http://www.netezza.com/.
BITanium
BITanium places itself firmly in the business intelligence and data warehousing market. Our insight into the BI sphere is that the solution architecture and underlying information engine is all-important, and that given a solid foundation, business intelligence can be deployed to all levels of decision makers in their chosen delivery mediums. At BITanium, we bring new insight into how our technical staff wants to be managed, with the result that we deliver high quality services to our customers, with a team of highly motivated and happy staff. This always translates into increased business value in your hands.
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