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Premier, Inc. Finds Faster Intelligent Decisions with Analytics using DB Lytix Powered by Netezza’s OnStream Analytics

BOSTON, — Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances, along with Fuzzy Logix, Inc., a Netezza Developer Network (NDN) partner announced today that the Premier healthcare alliance, will use the power of Netezza’s OnStream Analytics™ processing via Fuzzy Logix’s DB Lytix™, to speed up the delivery of healthcare knowledge to their affiliates nationwide. By exploiting the high performance analytics, Premier will empower their members to transform healthcare delivery while continuing to reduce healthcare costs.

“We’ve been using Netezza’s appliances since 2004 and have seen performance gains of 10X to 100X over other platforms. By leveraging OnStream Analytics processing via DB Lytix, we believe that we will once again experience another similar boost in performance,” said Chris Stewart, senior architect, Premier. “Partnering with Fuzzy Logix presents a great opportunity for us to improve the performance of existing applications and to leverage their skills to build custom analytical models that will drive higher value for our customers and investors.”

DB Lytix is a robust library of mathematical, statistical, data mining and predictive analytics that leverages the high performance throughput of Netezza’s appliances. DB Lytix uses OnStream Analytics for tremendous gains in speed as data is processed from streams off of the disk by Netezza’s shared-nothing Asymmetric Massively Parallel Processing™ architecture. The high performance in-database analytics processing delivers better insights in a simpler technology environment while reducing IT maintenance costs since there is no need for additional hardware, software or server licenses.

Netezza’s Phil Francisco, vice president of product management and marketing agrees, “Fuzzy Logix was an early adopter of our embedded analytics vision using OnStream Analytics to power their analytics package. Premier immediately recognized that faster performance translated to more agility for their customers. With DB Lytix, they not only get faster performance but also sharper, more timely insight to help their members improve their healthcare delivery.”

According to Partha Sen, CEO of Fuzzy Logix, “We are very excited to be working with such an innovative company as Premier to enhance the value they deliver to their customers and to further leverage their investment in Netezza’s products. Since installation and training can take place in less than one week, Premier and its customers will see benefits almost immediately.”

About Premier Inc., 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient

The Premier healthcare alliance is more than 2,200 U.S. hospitals and 63,000-plus other healthcare sites working together to improve healthcare quality and affordability. Premier maintains the nation’s most comprehensive repository of clinical, financial and outcomes information and operates a leading healthcare purchasing network. A world leader in helping deliver measurable improvements in care, Premier works with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the United Kingdom’s National Health Service North West to improve hospital performance. Premier has offices in San Diego, Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Washington. Follow Premier on Twitter.

About Fuzzy Logix

Fuzzy Logix, LLC is a high-tech business advisory company built on the results of ten years of research and development. Our vision is to use artificial intelligence and sophisticated quantitative techniques to solve complex business problems faced by businesses as well as mankind. Fuzzy Logix delivers rich suites of advanced analytics and predictive algorithms, as well as complete solutions with easy to use presentation and graphical views. These tools help you solve problems and provide competitive advantage at an affordable cost. We offer solutions directly to customers and also to partners who wish to embed analytics into their products. Our solutions allow you to analyze, infer and act™. For more information, visit http://www.FuzzyL.com.

About Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ)

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, Poland, France, Japan, Korea, Australia and Singapore. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.



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