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As a result of this partnership, business people and their organizationscan use the Vertica Analytic Database with Tableau's visual businessintelligence and analytic capabilities to rapidly store, explore and analyzehuge amounts of data. Insights gained from these new data visualizationcapabilities will help mutual customers make better decisions, compete moreeffectively and deliver valuable business results.

"Now with Tableau, employees, analysts and everyday knowledge workers atorganizations using Vertica have access to a rapid and easy way to visuallydiscover meaningful and useful information that may otherwise lay hidden inthe large amounts of data they are analyzing," said David Menninger, Vertica'sVP of marketing and product management. "Whether Vertica is in the cloud or ina traditional datacenter, Tableau's easy-to-use, unparalleled datavisualization capabilities make exploring data extremely simple, and itsenterprise features meet the demands of our customers."

hMetrix is currently using Tableau and Vertica together to analyze largevolumes of Medicare, Medicaid and commercially insured administrativeinformation. This analysis helps employers, hospitals, insurers,pharmaceutical companies and government agencies develop strategies thatincrease the quality of patient care and economic outcomes.

"Providing strategic advice to healthcare practitioners and policy makersis very challenging, and there's nothing more persuasive than hard data," saidGeorge Chalissery, hMetrix CEO. "Using Tableau and Vertica together gives usand our clients a competitive edge by being able to query data in an ad-hocway 70 times faster than with our old database. Tableau visualizes findings ina way that helps clients immediately see paths to better patient care andprofitability."

Vertica Analytic Database 2.5 is the only analytic database built fromscratch to handle today's heavy business intelligence workloads. In customerbenchmarks, Vertica has answered queries against terabytes of data 50 to 200times faster than competing row-oriented databases and specialized analytichardware. Vertica enables more people to analyze more data faster, using lesshardware and disk space at a fraction of the cost of other products.

Tableau's product suite helps people and organizations see and understandtheir data. Tableau Desktop connects directly to a wide assortment of datasources and integrates data exploration and visualization to make analyticsfast and easy for nearly anyone of any experience level. Tableau Serverextends the power of Tableau's analytical capabilities across organizations byproviding Web-based sharing and collaboration capabilities. The company'sproducts have already attracted more than 10,000 licensed users in companiesfrom one-person businesses to the world's largest organizations.

"Vertica has impressive capabilities. Its deep expertise working withcustomers and its high-performance database management systems that run in thecloud as well as in traditional environments are a perfect match to Tableau'sinnovative yet affordable software," said Kevin Brown, VP of alliances andpartnerships for Tableau. "Together, Vertica and Tableau are enabling a newkind of business intelligence solution that's not only fast and easy todeploy, but that increases user satisfaction and the bottom line."

About Tableau Software

Tableau Software, a privately held company based in Seattle, is theleading provider of software applications for fast analytics andvisualization. Its award-winning products can be downloaded athttp://www.tableausoftware.com/trial and used by anyone, including executives,managers, business analysts, strategic consultants, financial professionals,market researchers, scientists and engineers in nearly every industry. Formore information, visit http://www.tableausoftware.com

About Vertica

Vertica Systems is the market innovator for high-performance analyticdatabase management systems that run on industry-standard hardware. Co-foundedby database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Vertica has developed grid-based,column-oriented analytic database technology that lets companies of any sizestore and query very large databases orders of magnitude faster and moreaffordably than other solutions. The Vertica Analytic Database's unmatchedspeed, scalability, flexibility and ease of use helps customers like JP MorganChase, Verizon, Mozilla, Comcast, Level 3 Communications and Vonage capitalizeon business opportunities in real time. Vertica is headquartered in Billerica,Mass. For more information, visit the company's Web site athttp://www.vertica.com

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