QuantiSense Selects Netezza to Power Insight-Driven Business Intelligence and Analytics for Retailers

QuantiSense today announced that it will collaborate with Netezza to deliver its business intelligence and analytics application developed exclusively for the retail industry.

With the seamless integration between Netezza and QuantiSense solutions, retailers will be able to quickly and easily take advantage of QuantiSense Playbooks™, a set of “plays” unique for each retail job role that guides users to make better decisions and take action in response to specific situations. QuantiSense Playbooks turn the methodology of the best professionals into standardized decision processes that are consistent across the retail organization, enabling retailers with powerful analytic capabilities to reduce stockouts, minimize overstocks and markdowns, identify sales upswings and downswings at the store level, and guide their users to take appropriate action based on insight.

Netezza’s data warehouse and analytics appliances, including the new Netezza® TwinFin™ appliance, enable QuantiSense to deliver rapid performance from more than 1000 retail metrics built into the QuantiSense application. The simplicity of the Netezza appliance coupled with the packaged retail expertise of QuantiSense enable retailers to implement the combined solution in about 100 days.

“Our existing joint customers are testimony to Netezza’s strength in retail and the success of our combined analytics solution. We look forward to growing our Netezza relationship as we expand our solution offering,” said Jeff Giberstein, Chief Operating Officer of QuantiSense.

“QuantiSense is a key partner for Netezza’s ongoing success in the retail market,” states Jim Kelly, Vice President and General Manager of Retail and Consumer Products at Netezza. “Our collaboration with QuantiSense is ideal for businesses that need a retail-focused analytics solution that can be implemented and put to use quickly. QuantiSense aligns with Netezza’s core commitments of technology innovation and customer satisfaction, and we are pleased to recommend its technology to our existing and future retail customers.”

About Netezza

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 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, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Poland, Japan, Korea, Australia and Singapore. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.

About QuantiSense

QuantiSense is the leading provider of business intelligence (BI) and analytics applications exclusively for retailers. Customers include Burlington Coat Factory, Casual Male Retail Group, The Guitar Center, Hallmark Cards, Pacific Sunwear, Restoration Hardware, and Spencer’s. Implemented in 100 days, the QuantiSense application features a best-practices retail data warehouse and ETL designed to integrate quickly with retail source systems and any database platform. Users conduct analysis using QuantiSense's packaged analytics, reports, and role-based dashboards tailored for executives, buyers, planners, allocators, and additional roles throughout the retail enterprise. The revolutionary QuantiSense Playbooks™ empower retailers with a collection of role-based scenarios and situational analysis to drive process throughout the enterprise and guide users to the appropriate actions every time. To learn more, visit QuantiSense at www.quantisense.com.

QuantiSense® and Playbooks™ are either registered trademarks or trademarks of QuantiSense, Inc. Netezza® and TwinFin™ are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Netezza Corporation. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.