Netezza and Aginity Accelerate Customers’ Migration to TwinFin Appliance

Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse, analytic and monitoring appliances, and Aginity LLC, a leading data warehouse consulting company, today announced the Netezza® Enterprise Data Factory™, also known as the Netezza EDF. The Enterprise Data Factory includes tools, best practices, and design patterns that combine seamlessly with the development methodologies used by Netezza’s system integration partners. The Netezza EDF ensures optimal use of the Netezza TwinFin™ appliance’s unique architecture, so organizations quickly unlock the full value in enterprise data as they replace legacy database management systems.

"The Netezza EDF assures that our customers create extremely resilient and robust data analytics solutions on the entire range of Netezza appliances,” said Jon Niess, vice president, Corporate Development at Netezza. "The Netezza Enterprise Data Factory encapsulates best practices developed over many successful projects. By making this intellectual property available to our customers and global network of system integration partners, we will accelerate migrations to the TwinFin appliance.”

"We designed the Netezza Enterprise Data Factory to meet the growing information and analytic needs of the marketplace on an enterprise scale,” said Ted Westerheide, chief architect of Aginity. "It embodies best practices and design patterns in a reference architecture that leverages the power and simplicity of the TwinFin appliance. This allows our customers to rapidly deploy analytic applications, migrate from legacy ‘accidental architectures’ and handle massive amounts of data.”

Aginity and Netezza are presenting the Enterprise Data Factory to customers and partners attending Enzee Universe, Netezza’s user conference currently running in Boston.

About Aginity

Aginity LLC, the company behind the Netezza Enterprise Data Factory and the specialized Aginity / Netezza Workbench application, is a data warehouse consultancy that focuses on making companies smart, real-time, market-responsive, and dramatically more profitable. Aginity builds enterprise solutions that leverage analytics and the extreme capabilities of the Netezza TwinFin appliance. Aginity has offices in Evanston, Illinois and Kharkov Ukraine.

About Netezza Corporation

Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ) is the global leader in data warehouse, analytic and monitoring appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics across an extended enterprise. Netezza’s technology enables organizations 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, Poland, Japan, Korea, Australia and Singapore. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.

Netezza®, Enterprise Data Factory™, TwinFin™ and the Netezza ‘N’ logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Netezza Corporation. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.