Pitney Bowes Business Insight Teams with Netezza Corporation
Spatial Data Platform Helps Enterprises More Easily Integrate Location and Business Intelligence Enterprise-Wide
- Carol Wallace or Amanda Munroe
- Phone: 203-351-6974 or 617-779-1816
- eMail: PBBI@shiftcomm.com
Las Vegas, NV - 2009 CTIA Wireless (Booth # 6315) — April 01, 2009
Pitney Bowes Software, the leading global provider of location and communication intelligence solutions, today announced it is teaming with Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse appliances. The two companies will enable organizations to enhance operational efficiency and improve the scalability of location intelligence solutions across the entire enterprise, driving more intelligent business decisions.
Netezza Spatial™, an application extension to Netezza’s high-performance data warehouse appliance, provides companies with greater access to Pitney Bowes Software customer and location intelligence solutions. With Netezza’s data warehouse capabilities, Pitney Bowes Software customers across a variety of industry verticals can more easily integrate location intelligence applications enterprise-wide, perform analysis of larger spatial and non-spatial data sets and speed analysis for faster decision-making. Specifically for telecommunications organizations, the Pitney Bowes Software and Netezza solutions provide significant benefits for analyzing massive volumes of customer, network and billing data on a daily basis.
“It is becoming increasingly important for telecommunications companies to communicate and provide services to customers in an ‘intelligent,’ targeted manner,” said John Gillespie, vice president and general manger, global telecommunications at Netezza. “By combining our data capabilities with Pitney Bowes Software solutions, we offer telecommunications providers the ability to maximize spatial data tools to make better decisions, improve service and generate revenue.”
Using solutions from Pitney Bowes Software along with Netezza data platforms, telecommunications providers can leverage vast data sets on customer behavior information, such as service usage patterns, detailed call records and website use, to analyze and segment customers. This comprehensive data analysis allows providers to target services or new opportunities to the most appropriate customers and prospects. Telecommunications organizations can also use customer data to better manage costs and revenue by mapping network assets and identifying optimal sites for network expansion.
“For years, Pitney Bowes Software has been providing leading telecommunications providers with location intelligence solutions,” said Chris Cherry, director, communications vertical for Pitney Bowes Software. “By teaming with Netezza, we are enabling our customers to more quickly and easily analyze their growing volumes of data across multiple departments. This critical analysis helps drive better decisions about cutting costs and generating revenue enterprise-wide.”
Pitney Bowes Software and Netezza will be providing demonstrations of their location and communication intelligence solutions at booth number 6315 at the 2009 CTIA Wireless show.
About Pitney Bowes Business Insight
Pitney Bowes Business Insight, a division of Pitney Bowes Software Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pitney Bowes Inc., helps organizations to acquire, serve and grow customer relationships. Our leading-edge solutions in the areas of Customer Intelligence, Customer Communications and Customer Care enhance our customers’ operational systems and workflows, enabling them to manage their customer relationships more effectively. We offer unique and compelling capabilities, including location intelligence; GIS; predictive analytics; data quality, management and integration; and customer communications management. In combination, our solutions and capabilities deliver customer insights that create competitive advantages. Leading companies, government agencies and systems integrators rely on our global expertise and decades of leadership to improve their operational effectiveness and business results. Visit www.pbinsight.com and www.pb.com for more information.
About Netezza Corporation
Netezza is the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics for business users across the extended enterprise, delivering significant competitive and operational advantage in today’s information-intensive marketplaces. The Netezza Performance Server® (NPS®) family of appliances brings appliance simplicity to a broad range of complex data warehouse and analytic challenges. Customers who have realized the benefits of Netezza appliances include Ahold, Amazon.com, CNET Networks, Debenhams, Department of Veterans Affairs, Epsilon, iBasis, Nationwide, Neiman Marcus, Orange UK, Premier, Inc., Ross Stores, Ryder System, Inc., The Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media. Based in Marlborough, Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and the Asia Pacific region. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.