Ventana Research Reveals Significant Shift toward Technologies to Improve Performance

Business Wire, Sept 18, 2008

Majority of organizations face significant performance and scalability issues as they run more complex analytics; Columnar database technology mitigates challenges

SAN DIEGO -- ParAccel, Inc., provider of the ParAccel Analytic Database, a high-speed, low-effort, columnar database management system, today announced the unveiling of new benchmark research from Ventana Research entitled, "Optimizing BI and Data Warehouse Performance." The research concludes that as organizations try to perform fuller analysis on customers, products and other areas of business, they encounter significant challenges in scaling complex queries.

The new research from over 240 qualified organizations benchmarks the performance and scalability of BI and data warehouse investments and examines the actions organizations are taking to deliver information on a timely basis. The research finds there is a significant shift towards applying new technologies to address the most challenging performance and scalability requirements.

"Today's organizations are suffering from performance and scalability issues due to the use of technologies that were not designed for the complexity and mission-criticality of today's analytic workloads," said David Stodder, Ventana Research's vice president of research. Added Stodder, "Organizations need to improve their understanding of new technology options like columnar databases that can help address the challenges of more users wanting to access more data on a timelier basis."

"As the research shows, enterprises are now turning to new technologies, instead of labor intensive tuning and indexing, for improving the performance and scalability of their BI and data warehouse applications," said Kim Stanick, ParAccel vice president of Marketing. "The ParAccel Analytic Database has a schema neutral, load-and-go design to virtually eliminate the need for tuning, indices, or other redundant structures and enable true ad hoc query environments. ParAccel customers find our differentiated performance, scalability and flexibility is a powerful combination to extend their analytic capability in a meaningful way."

Upcoming Web Seminar

Ventana Research will unveil the benchmark research in a live interactive web seminar that will discuss key findings and insights that are critical to improving performance of BI and data warehouse investment.

The Ventana Research web seminar, "Optimizing BI and Data Warehouse Performance: New Approaches to Get More from Your Information Assets," is scheduled for Wednesday, October 1 at 10:00 am PDT. To register, please visit http://www.ventanaresearch.com/webinars/.> About Ventana Research

Ventana Research is the leading benchmark research and advisory services firm. We provide expert guidance to help organizations manage and optimize performance - to become not only more efficient but more effective. Our unparalleled insights and best practices guidance are based on our rigorous research-based benchmarking of people, processes, information and technology across business and IT functions worldwide. The combination we offer of benchmark research, rigorous market coverage and in-depth knowledge of hundreds of technology providers means we can deliver business and technology education and expertise to our clients where and when needed. Ventana Research provides the most comprehensive analyst coverage in the industry; more than 2.5 million business and IT professionals through our community of 85,000 professionals and network of media and association partners around the world benefit from Ventana Research's insights. Ventana Research focuses on business and technology trends and best practices that maximize organizations' potential to perform while reducing the time, cost and risk and still achieve optimal outcomes. To learn how Ventana Research advances the maturity of organizations use of information and technology through benchmark research, education and advisory services, visit www.ventanaresearch.com.

About ParAccel

ParAccel, Inc. is the proven leader in scalable analytic performance and price-performance. The ParAccel Analytic Database[TM] combines patent-pending innovations with a columnar, compressed, massively parallel, all-in-memory-capable architecture and is available as a virtual or packaged appliance on standard hardware from all major vendors. It can be implemented stand-alone, or as a drop-in accelerator to extend an existing SQL Server or Oracle investment. ParAccel's management team includes technical founders and industry veterans from noted data management companies Netezza, Oracle, Teradata, Gupta, SenSage, PointBase, and IBM. ParAccel is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information, please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335, or visit us at www.paraccel.com.