Most of Business Intelligence solutions vendors develop their platforms until they reach unacceptable size and become therefore impractical to use every day. Netezza is different, then - by providing users with data warehouse appliances building capabilities, Netezza's specialists leave it up to customer's will how their appliances are going to look like and what they're going to be used for. As a result, the time needed for every operation becomes shortened - instead of extracting data from the largest data warehouses covering whole company's needs, there is a separate data warehouse built for each problem that needs to be solved, while the whole system is being managed from within the Netezza TwinFin 4 platform.

Netezza TwinFin performance

Untypical architecture of Netezza TwinFin solution made it possible to improve performance even up to 100 times. What's responsible for such a pace is easily manageable system which integrates three elements - storage, server, and the database. What's more, there is enough attention paid to built-in data compliance and sensitive data security (Netezza is the first company to use these two in common appliances). Finally, TwinFin's company administrators get an insight to who and what for is accessing the data.

What simplifies the implementation is the fact that all the hardware, software, and storage appliances are pre-configured. Thereupon, the solution is ready to be used as soon as it's switched on. The "ready to go" idea allows TwinFin's users to begin data loading and query executing immediately.

TwinFin simplicity

Performance is being followed with simplicity - all analytic activities are consolidated where the data is stored. The i-Class technology supports using differentiated tools (SAS, R, Java, Python, Fortran) by letting them work simultaneously with engines and libraries.

Netezza key features

The ones below are chosen from the most meaningful TwinFin's features:

• supporting both, Business Intelligence and advanced analytics
• scalable (10-100x) performance at petascale
• efficient even if being used by thousands of users at the same time
• i-Class technology use for analytic developing
• streaming architecture based on blades
• ubiquitous simplicity of deployment and management
• data compliant
• compatible with the most popular Business Intelligence and analytic tools
• standard SQL, ODBC, JDBC, and OLE DB interfaces
• reliability and availability at 99,99% uptime level
• green orientation thank to low cooling and power requirements
• high load pace - over 2 TB of data per hour
• high backup creating pace - over 4 TB of data per hour

Netezza data warehouse resources

http://www.netezza.com/testdrive/ - even the most detailed description couldn't tell as much as experiencing the solution in practice. Thereupon, here is where you can order a trial - all you need is to put a few details about your company and wait for Netezza's specialists to prepare a dedicated presentation for you.

http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/new-architecture-and-speed-with-a-netezza-data-warehouse-appliance/386436 - there's a complete article about Netezza's Data Warehouse appliances accessible. However, it is needed to get registered first, nonetheless, the whole registration is free and enables receiving portal's white paper newsletter, as well. The paper itself focuses mostly on how companies can struggle with large amounts of data using traditional solutions, and how with a help of Netezza DW appliances.

http://www.digident-solutions.com/resource-center/Architectural_Comparison.pdf - if there's anything about Netezza Data Warehouse Appliances architecture you wanted to know, it's mentioned in this article. The full compendium published by Netezza specialists is an answer for all doubts of people hesitating which solution to choose. All architectural aspects have got covered, nonetheless it rather is a source for more advanced users.