Signature Level

Business Objects, an SAP company, transforms the way the world works by connecting people, information and businesses. With open, heterogeneous applications in the areas of governance, risk and compliance; enterprise performance management; and business intelligence, Business Objects enables organizations of all sizes worldwide to close the loop between business strategy and execution. Together with a strong and diverse partner network, Business Objects allows customers to optimize business performance across all major industries including banking, retail, consumer products and public sector. Business Objects is committed to helping customers turn raw data into actionable decisions, regardless of their underlying database, operating system, applications or IT system.
www.businessobjects.com

Gold Level

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With more than 180,000 people in 49 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$19.70 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2007. Its home page is www.accenture.com

Cognos, an IBM Company, is the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions. It provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. Cognos was acquired by IBM in January 2008.
www.cognos.com

MicroStrategy, a global leader in business intelligence technology, provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its advanced technical capabilities, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability.
www.microstrategy.com

Systech Solutions is a California based consulting firm dedicated to the implementation of Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Initiatives. Systech has a diverse and deep capability across most major technologies in the Business Intelligence space. As an early adopter of the Netezza platform, Systech has supported Netezza on a number of client implementation and conversion projects. www.systechusa.com

Silver Level

EDS is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions. Today, EDS delivers a broad portfolio of information technology and business process outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries and to governments around the world.
www.eds.com

EYC works with customer loyalty card databases and combines powerful analytics combined with robust commercial applications. Our clients will tell you that our work delivers hard benefits. Your own business will benefit from our varied expertise, which includes:

• Analysing, modelling and segmenting customer data to understand behaviour.
• Designing customer databases, reporting tools and metric marts for fast and efficient access to insight.
• Building a growth agenda with our clients and a roadmap on how to deliver it.
• Transferring capability to our clients by working collaboratively and implementing well-structured workshops.
• Building business plans, presentations and training to facilitate the adoption of customer-based strategies.
• Keeping the work simple and making it easy for operators to digest and execute.

www.eyc.com

Headstrong is a global consulting and IT services company that applies its expertise in business processes and technology across key verticals in the Capital Markets Industry. Headstrong's client base in the financial services industry includes eight of the top ten investment banks.
www.headstrong.com

Informatica delivers data integration software and services to solve the problem of data fragmentation across disparate systems helping organizations realize the full business potential of their enterprise data. Informatica's open, platform-neutral software reduces costs, speeds time to results, and scales to handle data integration projects of any size or complexity.
www.informatica.com

RateIntegration delivers the industry’s only third generation Customer Loyalty Management (CLM) solution to the global Telecom, Media, Web 2.0 and Financial Services markets.The Company’s CLM solution (RLM 3.0™) has enabled service providers worldwide reduce customer churn, increase average revenue per customer and increase revenues through partners. RLM enables real-time, transaction-level micro-segmentation of customers, price plan and promotion modeling, simulation and competitive analysis, transaction-level charging, rating, promotions processing and transaction-level profitability analytics. RLM, was built for the business user, and can be rapidly implemented without replacing existing IT systems, without creating multiple copies of existing data and without on-going custom programming to support the industry’s evolving requirements. www.rateintegration.com

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. With innovative business applications supported by an enterprise intelligence platform, SAS helps customers at 44,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.
www.sas.com

SPSS Inc. (Nasdaq: SPSS) is a leading global provider of predictive analytics software and solutions. The company’s predictive analytics technology improves business processes by giving organizations forward visibility for decisions made every day. By incorporating predictive analytics into daily operations, organizations become Predictive Enterprises—able to direct and automate decisions to meet business goals and achieve a measurable competitive advantage. More than 250,000 public sector, academic, and commercial customers rely on SPSS technology to help increase revenue, reduce costs, and detect and prevent fraud.
www.spss.com

TeleSciences featuring 10e Business Analytics TeleSciences is a telecom solutions company that helps its customers improve profits and business performance. We do this by configuring individual solutions from our suite of business analytics and tools. These solutions leverage data generated from network activity and range from cost-based analyses – that reveal a clear picture of true margins – to customer behavior analyses that examine huge volumes of individual usage and network data to find opportunities for churn reduction and delivering more relevant, targeted content. Our solutions help you realize the true value of the activity on your network.
www.telesciences.com

Unica Corporation (Nasdaq: UNCA) is a leading global provider of enterprise marketing management (EMM) software and services. The most comprehensive EMM suite on the market today, Unica's Affinium(R) software streamlines the entire marketing process from analysis and planning to project management, execution and measurement. More than 600 companies worldwide depend on Unica for their enterprise marketing management solution. Unica is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. with offices around the globe. For more information.
www.unica.com

Yómarí Information Services is a leading technology solutions company that specializes in providing strategic technology consulting consultancy in the area of Business Intelligence and data warehousing. Yómarí has helped many large and mid-market companies design, develop, and deploy multi-terabyte data warehouses such that they are able to analyze their data in an efficient manner in order to make better business decisions.Yómarí specializes in all aspects of building large scale BI applications from the ground up including Extract Transform and Load (ETL) architecture, database and data model design, and end-user online analytical processing (OLAP) reports. For more information, visit Yómarí's website at http://www.yomari.com

Bronze Level and Other Sponsors

Actuate Corporation is dedicated to increasing the richness, interactivity and effectiveness of enterprise data, for everyone, everywhere. Actuate delivers the next generation RIA-ready information platform for both customer and employee-facing applications. The Actuate platform boasts unmatched scalability, high-performance, reliability and security. Its proven RIA capabilities and highly collaborative development architecture are backed by the world's largest open source information application developer community, grounded in BIRT, the Eclipse Foundation's only top level Business Intelligence and reporting project. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in San Mateo, California, with offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol ACTU. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's web site at www.actuate.com.

A global leader in interactive marketing services, Acxiom provides clients with the deep consumer insight they need for effective and profitable business decisions and direct-to-consumer marketing initiatives. Our consultative approach spans multiple industries and incorporates decades of experience in consumer data and analytics, information technology, data integration, and consulting solutions for marketing across digital, Internet, email, mobile and direct mail channels. Founded in 1969, Acxiom (Nasdaq: ACXM) is headquartered in Little Rock, Ark., and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. For more information about Acxiom, visit www.acxiom.com.

Aeturnum, Inc. is a provider of enterprise application development software and services solutions. Founded in 2001, the company has become the vendor of choice for a diverse set of clients ranging from VC-funded, early-stage startups to Fortune 500 IT departments. Aeturnum enables competitive advantage by reducing development costs, accelerating time to market and enhancing IT expertise. Aeturnum has been a System Integrator and Reseller Partner with Netezza for over two years. As a result of this partnership, Aeturnum's Netezza 4.0 certified engineering team has gained the deep engineering, business and domain knowledge enabling us to deploy, integrate and fine tune Netezza performance server based solutions in production environments.
www.aeturnum.com

Armeta is a Dallas based Business Intelligence firm that helps you capitalize on your information to enable profitable decision making. We specialize in projects which ensure accessible on-demand information that enables deeper business knowledge and creates or sustains your companies competitive advantage, whether that be a Data Warehouse, Simple Online Reports to a broad user base, Advanced Predictive Analytics to a few super users or the deployment of our turnkey Retail Analytics Suite.
www.armeta.com

Brightlight Consulting brings significant, in-depth experience in architecting, developing, deploying, and evangelizing world class Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solutions, including experience in dozens of Netezza implementations since Netezza’s inception.
www.brightlightconsulting.com

CadenceQuest helps retail organizations inject a customer-centric view into traditional marketing and merchandising strategies by understanding transactional and customer-level data rather than aggregate sales alone. Customer Insight, our product platform, gives users easy access to individual and segment-based behaviors around market basket purchases, campaign effectiveness and brand loyalty. With an enhanced view, organizations improve decisionmaking through more customer-centric operations.
www.cadencequest.com

Edge Associates was formed in 2001 as a strategic consulting and investment business, operating in the field of leading-edge information technology, and more recently as a systems integrator specializing in data warehousing implementations. The company offers a wide range of knowledge and skills in the enterprise systems and software community. Edge Associates provides clients with the skills they need to successfully integrate new technologies, based on many man-years of experience. A typical Edge consultant has at least ten years experience in the industry, specializing in data warehouse implementation, and data migration in industry sectors such as retail, telecommunications, and finance, with particular focus on the use of parallel data processing and database technologies. In 2005, Edge Associates signed a Systems Integrator agreement with Netezza Corporation to work with their industry-leading data warehouse appliance products. This partnership enables Edge to offer leading edge data warehousing, business intelligence, and data analysis services to our clients. In 2007, Edge Associates were accepted as members of the Netezza Developers Network (NDN), and are now actively developing streaming analytic applications using an in-house Netezza SPUBox, including the recently-announced ECLIPSE compaibility library. In 2008, Edge Associates signed an agreement with WisdomForce Technologies to distribute and support their FastReader Oracle data extraction product in the UK. http://www.edge-a.co.uk/

www.emc.com

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.
http://www.expressor-software.com/

Fuzzy Logix, LLC is a high-tech business advisory company founded in April 2007. The idea behind the company was conceived in 1995 and since then, extensive research efforts have been undertaken to develop the technical infrastructure and mathematical algorithms required for our solutions. Finally, in the spring of 2007 after 12 years of hard work in garages and study rooms, the founders felt that the infrastructure had gained enough maturity and it was time for a new beginning! www.fuzzyl.com

HighPoint Solutions is a premier provider of specialized IT services with vertically focused solutions for Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, and Financial Services companies. We meet client needs with laser focus on key industries, partners, and technologies.
www.highpoint-solutions.com

As a leading independent business intelligence (BI) company for the past 30 years, Information Builders has provided innovative solutions to more than 12,000 customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and numerous U.S. federal government agencies. The company's flagship WebFOCUS product is the world's most widely used BI platform. Superior architecture and intuitive nature enables WebFOCUS to address the needs of everyone in the extended global enterprise – executive, analytical, operational, and beyond. It provides the agility to adapt to changing business conditions with the security, scalability, and flexibility to support dozens to millions of users. Unique to the company is the integration expertise it brings to the BI market. Information Builders iWay Software suite solves complex integration problems with pre-built components that require minimal custom programming. The award-winning combination of WebFOCUS and iWay gives Information Builders customers the ability to embrace the company motto: "Because Everyone Makes Decisions." Information Builders is committed to customer service excellence with a Professional Services division that specializes in building custom applications using WebFOCUS and iWay Software. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has more than 350 business partners.
http://www.informationbuilders.com

iOLAP is a pure-play consultancy focused exclusively on business intelligence and data warehousing. Our professional service team provides skills and tools on Business Intelligence applications ranging from ETL to data warehousing to web-deployed reporting and analysis. With highly trained consultants, we have the skills and people needed for successful data concept, design, development and implementation.
www.iolap.com

Lunexa is a provider of advisory and implementation IT services. Focused on the design and development of data warehouse, BI and data integration solutions, our consultants offer unique end-to-end expertise.
www.lunexa.com

Market6 applies scaled predictive analytics to the “last mile” of the supply chain to provide solutions in ordering and inventory management. Clients include Kroger, Wegmans, SuperValu, Coke, Chiquita and other CPG companies.
www.market6.com

ProLink is a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to global fortune 500 companies. ProLink blends management and technology consulting to build the right strategies and processes enabling companies to manage their information assets and realize a return on their investment.
www.prolinkservices.com

QuantiSense offers a packaged business intelligence and data warehousing application designed exclusively for specialty retailers. Our customers include Pacific Sunwear, Hallmark Cards, Restoration Hardware, Burlington Coat Factory, and KB Toys.
www.quantisense.com

Quantivo is pioneering a fundamentally new approach to customer behavior analytics. The company's on-demand service and patented technologies empower business managers with deep and timely understandings of customer behavior at a fraction of the complexity, time, and costs required by today's solutions. With Quantivo, consumer-centric enterprises make impactful business analytics of rich, highly detailed data directly accessible to a wide set of business analysts and decision makers for applications such as marketing optimization, purchase analysis, policy verification, fraud detection, and more. For more information, please visit www.quantivo.com.

RCG Information Technology is a leader in IT professional services with 34 years of experience and best practices providing IT strategy and design, application development, testing, integration, and management. RCG is committed to delivery excellence® and are CMM certified enterprise-wide. Specialized solutions include: Business Intelligence, Business & Technology Planning, SOA/Web Services, QA and Software Testing, Application Management, Offshore Delivery and Project Management. RCG IT serves 360 clients and 7 of the Fortune 10 across a range of markets, with special focus on the financial services, government, manufacturing, retail, energy/oil & gas, insurance and pharmaceutical industries. RCG IT is based in Edison, New Jersey, with offices nationwide, an Offshore Delivery Center in the Philippines, assessed at SW-CMMI® Level 5, and a global recruiting engine.
www.rcgit.com

SRC drives performance, profitability and insight through information accessibility solutions, enabling businesses to deploy best practices across the enterprise. SRC serves Fortune 500 companies and more than 240,000 users worldwide
www.extendthereach.com

WisdomForce Technologies is a Netezza partner. WisdomForce innovating solutions FastReader and DatabaseSync make enterprise data universally and securely immediately accessible. DatabaseSync enables a change capture of database transactions in heterogeneous environment and applying them into Netezza. FastReader is high-performance data unload and movement with data compression and migration capabilities.”
www.wisdomforce.com

Additonal Sponsors

Tuesday Breakfast Sponsor

Crossbow is a leading systems consulting firm that specializes in three core disciplines: Knowledge Management, Enterprise System Architecture and Microsoft Technologies. Employing some of the industry’s best and brightest business and technology practitioners, we always take a commonsense approach in adapting technology to meet our clients' unique business needs. www.xbowinc.com

Monday Cocktail Reception and Lava Lamp Sponsor

Lavastorm is a global data analytic software company focused on improving the performance of complex processes, such as order-to-cash. Core to our value is our ability to automate data analytic controls – enabling enterprises to seize on the efficiency, extensibility, and persistence of automated controls to deliver rapid and enduring operational and financial results. Through our Lavastorm Data Analytic Platform, we deliver a complete set of analytic capabilities and solutions including revenue assurance, fraud management, cost validation, customer management, risk management, and core data analytics.
www.lavastorm.com

Session Sponsor

RPF Consulting has been in the Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing space for 10 years, utilizing all areas of data warehousing, from classic data warehousing to appliance based approaches, helping ensure the right products and implementation services for our customers. Looking forward at emerging technology in Data Warehousing, RPF partnered with Netezza to offer a powerful corporate data analysis infrastructure.
www.rpfconsulting.com