Infobright Brighthouse 3.0 Raises the Bar on Data Warehouse Performance and Ease-of-Use

TORONTO--(Marketwire - February 4, 2008) - Infobright today announced Brighthouse 3.0, the newest release of its next-generation analytic data warehouse. Based on the industry's most innovative data warehouse architecture, Brighthouse 3.0 features an enhanced version of Infobright's patent-pending Knowledge Grid, enabling users to achieve more than a 100-fold improvement in performance over previous versions. Brighthouse 3.0 also provides enhanced support strengthened for ETL tools for faster and easier integration into customers' IT environments.

Brighthouse is the solution of choice for data-intensive organizations such as Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Xerox. These enterprises depend for their success on the ability to rapidly and accurately answer complex questions that involve analyzing massive amounts of information.

"We have been evaluating a number of data warehouse solutions for our clients who rely on on-the-spot analysis to underpin daily operational decisions," said Mats Johansson, senior consultant at LinkCube, a consulting firm specializing in data warehouse technologies. "After almost 20 years in the industry, I have never seen a product like Brighthouse that can handle three billion rows of data and resolve queries in seconds, and especially not while running on a standard server. Hands down, this is the best price/performance ratio available today."

"We believe organizations that want to analyze their data meaningfully should not be required to purchase additional hardware and also burden their DBAs with manual tasks," said Miriam Tuerk, chief executive officer at Infobright. "With the volume of information doubling every two to three years and business users needing to address evermore complicated questions, it's time to radically change data storage, access, and analsyis. Our customers have seen time and again that Brighthouse exemplifies that change. Now with Brighthouse 3.0, we are pleased to continue our efforts with significant performance and usability gains."

About Brighthouse

With its Brighthouse solution, Infobright has fundamentally reinvented data warehouse architecture, delivering a solution that works smarter, rather than harder. Brighthouse represents a departure from other data warehouse solutions that require labor-intensive data partitioning and indexing.

In sharp contrast, Brighthouse achieves breakthrough performance -- particularly for highly complex, ad-hoc queries -- through its flexible, patent-pending Knowledge Grid and integrated Optimizer. Information comes into the Brighthouse data warehouse, is tightly compressed (up to 40:1), and stored in "data packs." The Knowledge Grid then automatically creates a highly compact set of meta data, which statistically details the contents of the packs. When a query comes in, Brighthouse searches the Knowledge Grid to intelligently decide which data packs are required to resolve the query.

Now, with Brighthouse 3.0, Infobright is pushing the envelope on data warehouse performance in the following ways:

--  Added Operational Intelligence -- New intelligence in the BrightHouse
    Knowledge Grid enables queries to find the required information faster and
    more efficiently, resulting in shorter response times. Brighthouse already
    delivers the most detailed statistical metadata, and now in version 3.0,
    Infobright has increased the amount and type of data available in the
    statistical analysis layer, while also automating analysis of these
    statistics. Additionally, the Knowledge Grid learns about the relationships
    between data contained in multiple data packs. These improvements
    significantly increase performance by enabling Brighthouse to resolve
    queries more often without ever decompressing data packs. Finally,
    performance is enhanced because the Knowledge Grid is now used across more
    database operations.
    
--  Support for More Popular Platforms -- Brighthouse 3.0 couples
    sophistication with Infobright's commitment to simplicity and
    extensibility. While Brighthouse has always enabled easy integration with
    Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) platforms, 3.0 now includes custom
    connectors to some of the most popular ETL platforms, leveraging their end-
    to-end data management capabilities. Specifically, version 3.0 tightly
    integrates with ETL platforms from Informatica and Pentaho, exploiting such
    features as ETL job scheduling, error monitoring, and recovery processing,
    while also improving load performance.
    

Infobright delivers these advanced capabilities in the industry's easiest to use and most cost-effective solution. Brighthouse does not require tuning or on-going programming. Moreover, it runs on off-the-shelf hardware and creates a footprint that is an order of magnitude smaller than competitive solutions. And, because Brighthouse works with existing business intelligence (BI) infrastructures, organizations can leverage their IT investments, further reducing total cost of ownership.

Additionally, Brighthouse is the only data warehouse system built from the ground up as an engine in MySQL. The solution makes seamless use of the mature connectors, tools, and resources associated with the world's most widely deployed open source database. When combined, these capabilities enable IT teams to focus on serving business users rather than on hardware, programming, and other elements of a data warehouse system.

About Infobright

Infobright is taking a radical new approach to data warehousing. Infobright's Brighthouse analytic data warehouse software is designed to answer some of the most complex, detailed questions involving massive amounts of information, and answer those questions today, not next week. By fundamentally reinventing data warehouse architecture, Brighthouse "works smarter, not harder." Brighthouse achieves breakthrough performance, while eliminating the need for indices, data partitions, and other physical data structures, as well as the need to deploy large hardware systems. By delivering the most powerful and usable analytic data warehouse, Infobright is enabling companies to bring a whole new level of information intelligence to business operations. For information, please visit www.infobright.com.

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