expressor software announces partnership with Netezza

Alliance enables high-performance loading of Netezza data warehouse appliances

Burlington, Mass., and Netezza User Conference, Orlando, Fla. – Sept. 15, 2008 – expressor software, the leader in semantic data integration, today announced its partnership with Netezza Corporation. The initial result of the partnership is the delivery of a certified integration solution between the expressor semantic data integration system^tm and the Netezza Performance Server® (NPS®) data warehouse appliance.

Under the partnership the companies are collaborating on sales, marketing and product integration.

The expressor data loader for Netezza has been designed to integrate the expressor system with the NPS appliance. The integration delivers Netezza customers an affordable, high-performance data integration solution for loading data from disparate data sources into NPS and allows customers to quickly and efficiently build data warehouses that further reduce the overall cost of ownership for their BI initiatives.

"expressor software is an exciting new vendor in the data integration space," said Matt Rollender, director of strategic and technology alliances of Netezza. "As the market leader in data warehouse appliances, we are pleased to add expressor to the list of technology partners who offer a certified data loader for our Netezza appliance. We are very impressed by expressor software's rapid turnaround time in developing this connector and their commitment to maintaining up-to-date support of the product integration with our data warehouse appliance."

The high-performance expressor data loader for Netezza is available immediately at no extra cost. expressor software is demonstrating the product at the Netezza User Conference 2008 in Orlando, Fla., Sept. 15 - 17.

Dr. Michael Waclawiczek, VP of Marketing at expressor software commented, "The combination of our affordable, high-performance semantic data integration system and Netezza's easy-to-use, powerful data warehouse appliance offers a significant price/performance advantage over alternative data mart and enterprise data warehouse (EDW) solutions. We look forward to building a strong partnership with Netezza and working closely with them on meeting the needs of our joint customers."

about expressor software

expressor software tackles the complexity and cost of enterprise IT projects with data integration software that delivers breakthrough development productivity and data processing performance at a significant price/performance advantage. expressor's patent-pending semantic data integration system has been designed from the ground up - based on common business terms - that enable collaborative, role-based team development, business rule reuse and end-to-end project lifecycle management.

expressor was founded in 2003 by experienced data integration and data warehousing practitioners and executives. The company is headquartered in Burlington, MA, and is funded by Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners and Sigma Partners. For more information visit www.expressor-software.com.

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