Neiman Marcus Chooses Netezza Data Warehouse Appliance to Broaden Data Warehouse Footprint across the Enterprise.

Leading High-End Retailer Increases Performance and Reduces Costs with Netezza Performance Server[R] System

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Netezza Corporation, the global data warehouse appliance market leader, today announced that Neiman Marcus, Inc., a renowned retail company dedicated to merchandise leadership and superior customer service, has selected the Netezza Performance Server (NPS[R]) data warehouse appliance to provide high-performance business intelligence for customer marketing and merchandise analytics.

Founded in 1907, Neiman Marcus's goal is to offer the finest fashion and quality products in a welcoming environment. In order to best meet these goals, the Company relies on highly-specialized analytics to assess sales and marketing trends and forecasts. The Company, which was using a mixed workload environment, was experiencing significant performance issues in regards to these high-end performance marketing applications. Users in the marketing and sales departments rely on these applications to perform intensive analysis on marketing, sales and campaign data and it is crucial that queries be processed quickly and efficiently.

Since moving its marketing applications to the NPS system, Neiman Marcus is able to perform query processing significantly faster and has increased the number of queries it is able to run each day. Given its positive experience with the NPS system, Neiman Marcus has also migrated its merchandise analytics to Netezza, resulting in additional infrastructure cost savings. Additionally, using Netezza's appliance-based approach, Neiman Marcus has experienced significant cost savings by eliminating the need to purchase additional hardware.

"Time and time again, we hear from customers who have experienced such great success with the Netezza Performance Server system that they decide to expand their implementations and move more applications and data to the system," said Andy Winans, vice president, Retail & CPG, Netezza. "As Netezza continues to meet the challenges of expanding data sizes and growing user workloads, many of our customers are broadening their use of Netezza across the enterprise. We are pleased that companies like Neiman Marcus, whose businesses revolve around the intelligence within the marketing and sales data they collect, are able to leverage the NPS system to increase performance and overall satisfaction."

The Netezza Performance Server system is the market-leading data warehouse appliance built specifically to analyze terabytes of detailed data 10 to 100 times faster than existing data warehouse options, at half the cost. The NPS system stores, filters and processes terabytes of records within a single unit, analyzing only the relevant information for each query. Netezza has placed the CPU power next to the data, allowing the NPS system to speed through processes that would occupy most data warehouse systems for hours, or even days, thereby enabling dramatic increases in productivity across the organization.

Customers who have recognized the benefits of Netezza's approach include Ahold, Amazon.com, Cingular Wireless, CNET Networks, Debenhams, Department of Veterans Affairs, Epsilon, Orange UK, Premier, Inc., Ryder System, Inc., Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation, The Carphone Warehouse and The TJX Companies.

About Neiman Marcus

Neiman Marcus, Inc. operations include the Specialty Retail Stores segment and the Direct Marketing segment. The Specialty Retail Stores segment consists primarily of Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman stores. The Direct Marketing segment conducts both print catalog and online operations under the Neiman Marcus, Horchow and Bergdorf Goodman brand names. Information about the Company can be accessed at www.neimanmarcusgroup.com.

About Netezza Corporation

Netezza, the global data warehouse appliance market leader, enables enterprises to make all of their data actionable - quickly, simply and affordably. The Netezza Performance Server family of products delivers breakthrough performance, unmatched ease of deployment and operation, and innovative flexibility and scalability at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouse solutions. By architecturally integrating database, server and storage within a single appliance, the NPS system delivers 10 to 100 times the performance at half the cost of existing systems. Based in Framingham, Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific. The Company is backed by leading venture capital firms, including Matrix Partners, Charles River Ventures, Battery Ventures, Orange, Sequoia Capital and Meritech Capital Partners. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.