Hours, let alone days, are no longer acceptable timetables for answers offered up by deep analytical queries. In today's hyperactive business landscape, every second matters, especially when one decision can affect the next.

Data warehouses are the answer to speeding up the collection, merging and analyzing of large amounts of data in near-real-time.

And data warehouse appliances have transformed the data warehouse with a platform designed to deliver optimal price and performance with extreme simplicity. Advanced analytics are completed with blazing speed, agility and scalability.

This brief paper outlines the IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance and how it offers extreme:

• Time to value
• Agility and ability to grow with new workloads
• Cost reduction of ongoing maintenance
• Query performance, mainly for complex analytics
• And more