Nevis Selects Vertica to Make Business Intelligence Fast, Easy and Affordable for European Retailers and Manufacturers

BILLERICA, Massachusetts -

Italian software developer, Nevis, has developed a new kind of data analytics tool, called NFactum that combines Vertica’s high-performance analytic database with its own parametric modeling software to analyze terabytes of multidimensional data in seconds. The software allows executives to gain better, more immediate insight into profitability and other key performance through NFactum’s easy-to-use dashboard.

The company chose the Vertica Analytic Database to power the NFactum software due to its ability to answer business intelligence queries faster than competitors while running on low-cost, standard hardware. The NFactum system is designed to give business managers a simple but complete view of their companies’ performance by analyzing all the relevant data driving their businesses. It includes point-and-click analytic modules for sales, marketing, geo-marketing, purchasing, production, distribution and administration performance. The Vertica-powered NFactum system is used by dozens of companies in the fashion, transportation, manufacturing, travel and food industries, as well as government organizations. For example, a world famous winery uses NFactum to optimize production and sales for 15 million bottles a year composed of 50 different labels. And an Italian shoe maker is using the technology to analyze terabytes of consumer data to determine which new markets to enter.

“Our customers could not get an accurate view of how their businesses were performing because the volume of data had far outstripped the capabilities of their traditional ERP systems. We built NFactum to give them high quality business intelligence capabilities at much less cost than traditional systems. We needed a very high performance database that could crunch terabytes of data with ease, and scale as our customer base and needs grow. We evaluated a number of data warehouse appliances, but Vertica outperformed them all and at significantly lower cost,” said Enrico Grisello, president of Nevis.

The Vertica Analytic Database relies on a unique columnar, MPP architecture and pioneering data compression to reduce storage requirements for the NFactum data warehousing and BI software by as much as 90 percent, dramatically cutting hardware overhead and energy consumption so customers can analyze larger amounts of data at a fraction of the cost. The Vertica Analytic Database can operate directly on that compressed data, delivering query results 50 to 200 times faster than other databases.

“NFactum is a great example of how highly advanced database technology can be made extremely easy to use. Business managers can now pose complex questions to vast quantities of data with the ease of a mouse click and receive responses in seconds,” said Dave Menninger, vice president of marketing and product management at Vertica Systems.

About Vertica

Vertica Systems is the market innovator for high-performance analytic database management systems that run on industry-standard hardware. Co-founded by database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Vertica has developed column-oriented analytic database technology with an MPP architecture that lets companies of any size store and query very large databases orders of magnitude faster and more affordably than other solutions. The Vertica Analytic Database is available as software only, as a hardware based appliance, as a virtual appliance on VMware or online as a cloud computing solution. The technology’s unmatched speed, scalability, flexibility and ease of use helps customers like JP Morgan Chase, Verizon, Mozilla, Comcast, Level(3) Communications and Vonage capitalize on business opportunities in real time. Vertica is headquartered in Billerica, Mass. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.vertica.com.

Source: Vertica

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