Acxiom Signs Development Agreement for Ongoing use of Kognitio's WX2 Analytical Database
16 December 2008 - 12:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
CHICAGO, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Kognitio(R), a leading global
provider of business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing
solutions, today announced it has signed a development agreement
with Acxiom(R) Corporation (NASDAQ:ACXM), a global leader in IT
infrastructure, data management and interactive marketing services.
Under terms of the agreement, Acxiom has certified Kognitio's WX2
purpose-built analytical database during a 20-week-long testing
period, and will continue to test WX2 per the terms of the
agreement. Acxiom provides business-critical IT infrastructure
services and business intelligence solutions that enable clients'
growth and profitability. As part of its ongoing research efforts,
Acxiom continually evaluates new, leading-edge database
technologies such as WX2, seeking solutions that give the company a
wider range of offerings that provide clients with true competitive
advantage. "Acxiom is constantly on the lookout for better, faster,
more reliable and more resource-efficient means of delivering our
best-in-class solutions. Acxiom's Technology Evaluation Laboratory
subjects candidate products and technologies to an exhaustive
battery of performance and functionality testing prior to
certification for use," said James Coyne, Acxiom Technical Advisor
for Infrastructure. "We are pleased that Kognitio WX2 has
successfully completed the benchmark test suite and achieved
certification. Its success provides us another powerful option for
deployment in Acxiom clients' solutions." Now in its sixth
generation, Kognitio WX2 is the most mature analytical database of
its type on the market today, capable of helping mid-sized and
larger enterprises alike gain unprecedented analytical access to,
and insight from, massive amounts of data, thus allowing them to
remain ahead of their competitors. More than twenty years of
development enables Kognitio WX2 users to reliably gain greater
benefits in less time; by enabling users to query, in detail, vast
amounts of granular data in just seconds, tests have shown WX2
consistently obtains results several times faster than competing
data warehouse appliances and up to 60 times faster than typical
software-only databases. "Acxiom's certification of WX2, with its
sophisticated data analytics and powerful performance, provides the
market with further proof that our database is capable of handling
the highest, most intense level of analytic queries with ease,"
said John K. Thompson, Kognitio's Chief Executive Officer for North
American Operations. "Companies like Acxiom must be able to
routinely query multiple terabytes of information and obtain
answers within seconds. Our development agreement with Acxiom gives
them that ability, and gives us a further foothold in a
significantly competitive market." About Kognitio Kognitio
(http://www.kognitio.com/) is an innovative, technology-rich
company, providing leading-edge solutions to business problems that
require the acquisition, rationalization and analysis of large or
complex data. Kognitio's WX2 is the industry's fastest and most
scalable analytical database on the market, giving firms the
ability to turn their raw data into valuable business insight fast,
and empowering its customers to realize comprehensive answers to
critical business questions. Globally headquartered in Bracknell,
UK, with North American headquarters in Chicago and offices in New
York, Kognitio delivers competitive advantage to its clients across
a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, financial
services and utilities. More information is available by phone at
312.268.5725. About Acxiom IT Services Information intensive
companies rely on Acxiom to provide business- critical IT
infrastructure services and business intelligence solutions that
enable our clients' growth and profitability. Mission-critical
systems are delivered through Acxiom's agile, highly secure and
cost-effective services ranging from fully managed solutions such
as mainframe, server and BI technology platforms to point solutions
such as online backup and email archiving. Because we process more
consumer data than anyone in the world, companies that place high
value on information depend on our comprehensive IT infrastructure,
data management and marketing services competencies to provide true
competitive advantage. DATASOURCE: Kognitio CONTACT: John K.
Thompson, Kognitio, +1-312-268-5727, ; or Steve Friedberg, MMI
Communications, +1-610- 518-7474, Web site:
http://www.kognitio.com/
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