Cognos, an IBM company and the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence software is now available, for the first time, for Linux on System z.

With IBM Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z, customers can efficiently report and analyze transactional systems directly on the mainframe, so workers across an organization can use information to quickly identify and respond to critical business trends. Highly targeted information delivery and analysis capabilities let knowledge workers, ranging from front-line managers to executives, receive strategic business information where, when and how they need it to make better business decisions.

A result of IBM's rapid assimilation of its acquisition of Cognos, the product unites the proven reporting and analysis capabilities of IBM Cognos 8 BI with the power and reliability of IBM System z. This allows organizations across industries to leverage their mainframe investments to improve decision-making and overall business performance.

The availability of IBM Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z extends IBM's Information on Demand business strategy, which unifies the company's software, hardware, consulting and research expertise to help customers gain access to the right information when they need it, along with business insights to address and respond to changing market demands. Further in support of this strategy, IBM has established multiple worldwide System z competency centers to help customers learn about IBM Cognos 8 BI on System z, benchmark the System z architecture and interact with other IBM products and solutions.

The combination of IBM Cognos 8 BI and System z demonstrates the mainframe's resurgence as the strategic platform of choice for running modern applications. It provides organizations, such as Satyam Computer Services Ltd, with the means to transform their disparate pieces of data into consistent, actionable business information on a modern mainframe that has been designed from the ground up to help dramatically increase data center efficiency. The IBM System z mainframe significantly improves data center performance and reduces power, cooling costs, and floor space requirements with unmatched levels of security and automated management and tracking of IT resources.

'Our BI Center of Excellence evaluated the tool for very large volumes of data. With IBM Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z customers can gain a single, current and consolidated view of business information to support operational processes and disperse to the right teams across the company for more effective-decision making,' said Indira Munjuluri, Head of BI Architecture & CoE group , Satyam Computer Services Ltd. 'Aligning such a broad range of BI capabilities with our infrastructure strategy helps us deliver consistent business solutions through a powerful, ultra-efficient data center.'

More than 600 new applications and solutions were introduced for the IBM mainframe in 2007 ' bringing the total to more than 4,000 unique applications available on the System z platform. 'System z customers want more users across their organization making better, faster decisions using their infrastructure platform of choice,' said Leah MacMillan, vice-president, BI Product Marketing, Cognos, an IBM Company. 'With IBM Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z, these customers will be able to take advantage of the broad range of proven BI capabilities for all types of users across the organization to optimize operational processes while reducing infrastructure cost and complexity.'

Cognos, an IBM Company, is a recognized leader in delivering BI and performance management solutions across industries. For example, 19 of the top 20 consumer goods companies worldwide, 9 of the top 10 insurance companies and over 1,000 financial services organizations, including 9 of the top 10 banks in Europe and all of the top 10 banks in the United States, use IBM Cognos solutions.

IBM announced the availability of the System z10 Enterprise Class on February 26, 2008 as the most sophisticated server ever developed, reflecting a multi-billion dollar investment, five years of development and a global team of thousands of technical professionals.

IBM System z is an important part of IBM's new enterprise data center model, which helps clients improve IT efficiency and facilitates the rapid deployment of new IT services for future business growth. The model is based on best practices for virtualization, green IT, service management and cloud computing.

About IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Products:

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) delivers easy-to-use BI with the right context, through familiar interfaces, at the right time. For further information visit: http://www.cognos.com/products/cognos8businessintelligence/index.html. For more information on System z, visit http://www.ibm.com/systems/z.  

About Cognos, an IBM company:

Cognos, an IBM company, is the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions. It provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. Cognos was acquired by IBM in January 2008. For more information, visit http://www.ibm.com/software/data/ and http://www.cognos.com. 

Cognos and the Cognos logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cognos ULC, an IBM Company, in the United States and/or other countries. IBM and the IBM logo are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, or other countries, or both. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Note to Editors: Copies of previous Cognos press releases and product information are available on Cognos' Web site at http://www.cognos.com.  

Cisco today furthered its strategy of investment in the Russian technology industry with the announcement of an anchor investment in a venture capital fund that will focus on Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). In collaboration with Almaz Capital Partners, Cisco has made the anchor investment in Almaz Capital Russia Fund I, L.P. (to be informally called 'Almaz Capital / Cisco Fund I'), which has initially closed at $60 million.

Almaz Capital Partners will seek investment opportunities and manage the fund's investments. The target companies for the fund primarily include high-growth small and medium-sized companies in the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors. Cisco will pursue investment opportunities in technology-related start-ups in the region, both directly as well as indirectly through this regional venture fund.

"Today's announcement underscores Cisco's recognition of the innovation and potential that the Russia technology market offers," said Paul Mountford, president of Emerging Markets for Cisco. "As part of its globalisation strategy, Cisco's intention is to strengthen links to key centers of innovation. The growing number of start-ups originating from the region is reflective of the growing importance of the technology sector to Russia's continued socio-economic development and competitiveness."

Cisco's Corporate Development organization helps the company to identify and capture market disruptions and anticipate trends around the world, and to provide a competitive advantage through early investments in burgeoning technologies. The group's objectives align closely with Cisco's corporate globalization strategy, which addresses the world's shifting boundaries and intensifying competition worldwide.

"Investing in best-in-class venture teams, such as Almaz Capital Partners in Russia, is an example of how Cisco maintains leadership in global markets in transition," said Hilton Romanski, vice president of Global Corporate Development for Cisco. "The potential for technology innovation arising from Russia is tremendous. Our objective is to help catalyze and accelerate that potential into action that will have a positive impact on the Russian and global marketplaces."

Cisco has already announced key direct investment commitments to the Russian market, including a stake last year in Ozon, the leading Russian online retailer.

"Russia is unique relative to other emerging venture capital markets, in that it offers both innovation and market opportunities. Like Israel, Russia has tremendous technology and innovation potential, and similar to China and India, it has a large and fast growing enterprise and consumer market," said Peter Loukianoff, managing partner of Almaz Capital Partners. "Russia has a growing community of savvy entrepreneurs that are building companies based on both innovative technologies for global markets and proven business models for the internal Russian/CIS market."

Overall, Cisco currently has more than $2 billion in venture capital investments under management and has been an active equity investor in major markets such as China, India, Israel and Europe, in addition to the United States. Through a combination of direct and indirect funding vehicles, Cisco is a strategic investor in start-ups and venture funds around the world and focuses on finding and investing in companies that have innovative technologies and business models.

Yoav Samet, head of Cisco's Corporate Development for Israel, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia/CIS, will lead the initiative announced today.

About Almaz Capital Partners

Almaz Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in Russian-related technology, media, and communications companies. The firm has offices in Silicon Valley and Moscow. Additional information about Almaz Capital Partners can be found at http://www.almazcapital.com. 

About Cisco Systems

Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com. Cisco equipment in Emering Markets is supplied by Cisco Systems International BV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

Axon Americas, a division of Axon Group plc, the leading SAP Business Transformation consultancy, announces that it has acquired the business of SCM Solutions, a privately-held provider of Supply Chain Management Services.

Founded in 2005 by Pete King and Chris Botha, SCM Solutions is one of the premier supply chain consultancy firms that leverage SAP's world class Supply Chain Management (SCM) Solution. The acquisition is designed to accelerate Axon's expansion into SCM for SAP's Services Industry. SCM Solutions currently supports close to 50 service industries in all areas of SCM, including, Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO), Transportation Management (TM), Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM), Supply Network Collaboration (SNC) and Service Parts Planning (SPP). Industries represented include High Tech, Mining, Oil &Gas, Healthcare, Automotive, Consumer Products and Life Sciences.

Mr. King, Managing Partner of SCM, said, "We are delighted to become part of the largest SAP dedicated consultancy in the world. Axon's global reach will allow us to gain access to the premier global SAP operating platform and apply our insights into supply chain transformation for a broader range of clients using our SCM consulting capabilities. Our clients will benefit from Axon's capabilities in the full range of Business Consulting and SAP Solutions."

"I am excited about the addition of SCM Solutions to Axon. Their deep understanding of the SAP supply chain solution is consistent with our global vision of being the SAP Systems Integrator of choice," added Steve Peck, President and CEO of Axon Americas. "SCM Solutions' capabilities will help Axon provide enhanced transformational value and a strategic differentiator for all companies using SAP. We will maintain SCM Solutions' strong commitment to their clients' success and are dedicated to providing outstanding opportunities to SCM Solutions' consultants."

SCM Solutions serves as an exceptional fit for Axon. Since their inception, they have been dedicated to SAP's enterprise applications, and like Axon, their objective has always been to provide premier consulting services with clear, measurable results for each client.

About Axon

Axon (www.axonglobal.com) is a Business Transformation consultancy that delivers significant business value to large, complex organizations through the innovative implementation of SAP technologies. Axon has over 2,000 experienced professionals specializing in the delivery of sustained business improvement through technology enabled transformation programs. Axon's consultants bring in-depth industry expertise alongside best practice functional knowledge to address the strategic, operational, information management and organizational effectiveness challenges faced by organizations today. Axon is renowned for its ability to help clients define more ambitious strategies, build more effective organizations and shape more successful futures.

Founded in 1994, Axon today has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, China, India and Australia.

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Despite a macroeconomic slowdown that has kept the threat of recession looming for the past eight months, pockets of job market growth continue to emerge in the technology, healthcare and defense sectors. According to TheLadders.com’s Quarterly Executive Job Market Trends Report for Q208, which tracks hiring patterns in 20 major cities and surveys in-the-trenches job seekers nationwide, 71 percent of $100,000+ job seekers said they have noticed a slow-down in interview opportunities this quarter. However, undeterred by the economic slow-down, 58 percent of those surveyed described the high-end job markets in their cities as stable and 59 percent said they expect to land a new job in six months or less.

This optimism is echoed in the hiring patterns among the large American corporations according to TheLadders.com Quarterly Executive Job Market Trends Report. While hiring in the financial and consumer discretionary sectors has clearly been impacted by the continued fall-out from the mortgage market collapse, the technology, healthcare and defense sectors are all adding to their executive-level ranks nationwide.

"There were 12,000 more $100,000+ jobs posted on TheLadders.com in the first quarter of 2008 than there were in the first quarter of 2007," said Marc Cenedella, president and CEO of TheLadders.com. "The recession is grabbing the headlines, but there are always countercyclical segments of the market that thrive in a down economy; we’re seeing a lot of reliance in this marketplace."

Regional Job Market Analysis

To get at the heart of hiring patterns in the $100,000+ job market, TheLadders.com’s Quarterly Executive Job Market Trends Report measured hiring activity across a variety of metrics and found the regional markets with the most favorable $100,000+ climates were San Francisco, San Diego, Washington DC, Seattle and Boston. The ratio of job seekers to job postings sits at a favorable 2:1 in San Francisco, 3.1 in San Diego and 4:1 in Washington DC, Seattle and Boston.

Job markets attracting the highest number of job seekers from other parts of the country are New York, San Francisco and Boston. Tampa and Detroit continue to be among the tightest markets in the 20 DMAs.

Across the nation, some of the top companies currently posting the most open positions are BAE Systems, Cisco Systems, Deloitte, General Dynamics, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, PayPal, and Sepracor.

Job Seeker Survey

As part of TheLadders.com Quarterly Executive Job Market Trends Report, active job seekers throughout the country were asked to weigh in with their own first-hand accounts on the status of the current job market in their cities. Job seekers were asked questions such as: Have you directly felt the impact of the recession on your job hunt? How long do you think it will take you to land a new job?

As noted above, when asked directly about the impact of the recession, 71 percent of job seekers said they have noticed a slow-down in interview opportunities. In describing the high-end job markets in their cities, a 58 percent majority cited overall stability and 59 percent said they expect to land a new job in six months or less. An upwardly mobile group, 64 percent of the job seekers surveyed said they were willing to move from their current cities for a new job opportunity. Another 42 percent said they are actively looking for new job opportunities in cities outside of their own.

Complete city-by-city data and survey results are available at the following link: http://www.theladders.com/static/boom/ Please contact John Roderick at 631-656-9736, or john@jroderick.com to receive more information.

About TheLadders.com

TheLadders.com is the world's largest online service catering exclusively to the $100k+ job market. Our job is to make the search for senior talent and senior positions quick and effective. With access to the most $100k+ job leads in one place, senior level professionals can get to the next step in their careers faster. Top recruiters value the ability to quickly and easily connect with so much qualified talent in the sales, marketing, finance, HR, legal, tech and operations industries. Founded in 2003 by Marc Cenedella, TheLadders.com has grown into the largest specialty employment website. In addition to traditional job search services, TheLadders.com also provides a host of specialized career development resources, including a proven, one-on-one resume service; advice from career experts; customized online profiles; and e-mail alerts. TheLadders.com is headquartered in New York with offices in London. For more information, please visit www.theladders.com or www.theladders.co.uk.  

Dell today introduced new infrastructure consulting services to help organizations of all sizes improve their storage management and data protection, enable effective disaster recovery procedures and implement backup recovery processes. These services will help companies better manage traditional data and the new and rapidly growing digital file content created by the increasing adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in business. Enterprise and medium-size organizations can expect to experience 55 percent compound annual growth rates in the volume of their file-based storage capacity over the next several years.

Connected Era Creating Unprecedented Storage Demand

The amount of information created this year will surpass available storage capacity as more and more consumers and businesses go online2. Companies must manage the complexities of growing storage infrastructures and protect, back up and retain data to comply with industry regulations, while protecting themselves from increasingly sophisticated external threats. Companies also want to fully utilize storage so that they don’t pay for storage that is not used.

“For many customers, managing their data access, protection and recovery environment has become unnecessarily difficult and the risk to the business through data loss in the event of human error or disaster is both real and material,” said Paul Kaeley, Storage Consulting Practice Director, Dell. “Dell's new consulting services provide a path to simplifying customers’ storage and backup environments.”

“Dell examined not only our immediate needs but also our goals for the future in terms of replication, disaster recovery and data back up,” said Barry Schwartz, IT/Network Manager of Metrologic Instruments.

Dell improved the efficiency of Metrologic’s data back up from 80 to 14 hours by consolidating servers, resulting in a goal of 200 percent return on investment, and helping ensure business continuity and protection of 40 years worth of the company’s intellectual property.

Services Designed Around Storage Management and Data Protection Pain Points

Dell will work with customers to:

• Implement a tiered-storage infrastructure where less critical data can be moved to the appropriate tier helping to drive down costs for the business;

• Rapidly identify improvements within backup and recovery infrastructure and help customers to stabilize and optimize operations; and,

• Plan, design and implement data disaster recovery to help protect and recover data in event of crisis.

Additionally, in partnership with GlassHouse Technologies Inc., Dell will plan, design and implement IT disaster recovery plans to ensure companies have the people, process and tools to restore IT operations in the event of a crisis. Dell can also simplify the management of heterogeneous backup environments by providing managed backup, remote backup monitoring and remote backup reporting.

“There’s an appetite for storage services, but companies are weary of long engagements that last for six months and the end result is a PowerPoint with a bunch of meaningless platitudes,” said Stephanie Balaouras, Forrester senior analyst. “What I like about [Dell’s services] is that there is an emphasis on consulting engagements that are short in duration and the recommendations are useful and actionable.”

Tiered Storage, Data Disaster Recovery and Backup Restore Optimization and Stabilization services are now available worldwide, except in Latin America. IT Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Backup and Restore Assessments and Managed Backup, Remote Backup Monitoring and Remote Backup Reporting services are available to customers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada and will be available to customers in the rest of Europe and Asia later this year.

Practical Solutions, Not Armies of Consultants

Dell has a modular approach to infrastructure consulting. The company uses tools, automation and repeatable methodologies and best practices to identify pragmatic solutions to IT infrastructure management challenges in days and weeks rather than months. Dell services also include on-going support and managed services.

Storage Consulting services are available directly from Dell and through Dell’s Partner Direct program. Channel partners should contact their account representative for further information.

About Dell

Dell Inc. listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services company and No. 34 on the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.dell.com, or to communicate directly with Dell via a variety of online channels, go to www.dell.com/conversations. To get Dell news direct, visit www.dell.com/RSS. 

CSC today announced that it has received nine insurance industry recognitions from three separate groups during the 2008 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum. The awards, which were determined by property and casualty (P&C) insurance carriers, include first-place rankings in integrated systems, information technology (IT) services and IT outsourcing. The company also received an early adopter award for its leading administration system for life and annuity products, CyberLife.

"With one of the industry's broadest portfolios of insurance software and consulting services, CSC continues to deliver practical yet inventive solutions that answer immediate mission-critical client needs," said Ray August, president of CSC's P&C Insurance Division. "These industry acknowledgments validate CSC's ongoing commitment to helping insurance companies achieve business results."

Five of the industry awards were determined by the results of the second annual Vanguards in Insurance Practices survey conducted by Insurance Networking News and research firm Celent. The survey, which assesses the opinions of insurance carriers in the United States and Canada, ranked the top insurance technology providers across several categories.

Insurers were asked to name the technology firms that represented the "best of the best" in terms of delivering value. CSC was the only firm to receive two first-place rankings -- one for integrated systems and another for IT services -- as well as a second place in point solutions. In addition, CSC and its client, Accident Fund, shared first-place Best Practice Case Study honors for Accident Fund's use of CSC's POINT IN Agency Link software. CSC also received an honorable mention in this category.

"There is nothing decision-makers appreciate more than insight from their peers," said Craig Weber, senior vice president of Celent, which led the survey analysis. "That's why we base the Vanguards in Insurance Program on data gleaned purely from surveying insurance carriers and brokers."

At the conference, CSC was also selected as an Insurer's Choice 2008 technology firm. CSC ranked first in IT outsourcing for P&C insurers and in the top three in both operations and workflow. Insurer's Choice is an annual survey of the insurance industry co-sponsored by Tech Decisions and Financial Insights, an IDC company. This year's results reflect responses from more than 600 insurance professionals.

ACORD, a nonprofit insurance standards organization, also presented awards recognizing achievements in ACORD data standards implementations. CSC received an Early Adopter award for adding three more ACORD XMLife standards to CyberLife.

About CSC

CSC is a leading IT services company. CSC's mission is to be a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services.

With approximately 90,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC's own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC reported revenue of $16.5 billion for the 12 months ended March 28, 2008. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.csc.com. 

As expected, a new supercomputer built by IBM for Los Alamos National Lab topped the latest list of the world's 500 fastest computers. Other IBM machines were the second and third faster, and IBM computers accounted for more than 40 percent of the entire list.

Built for the National Nuclear Security Administration, the New Mexico machine can perform more than a quadrillion calculations per second or 1.02 petaflops. It is powered by IBM PowerXCell 8i Cell Broadband Engine processors – derived from chips that power today’s most popular videogame consoles -- and 6,562 AMD Opteron Dual-Core processors.

The No.2 fastest computer in the world is an IBM Blue Gene/L system at NNSA's Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California, which clocked in at 478 teraflops Team Blue Gene also held the No.3 spot with a 450 teraflop performance from the Blue Gene/P system housed at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Lab in Chicago.

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New Idea Engineering (NIE), a Santa Clara, California-based consulting group, today announced that it has been selected by Endeca Technologies, Inc. (http://www.endeca.com), an information access software company, to design and deploy joint enterprise search and information access solutions based on the Endeca Information Access Platform (IAP) (http://endeca.com/technology/technical-details.html).

"New Idea Engineering is among the world's foremost authorities on enterprise search and information access solutions," said Matt Eichner, senior vice president, strategic development at Endeca. "Our partnership will introduce the benefits of the Endeca platform to new markets and industries while ensuring the highest level of support and expertise. As a result, NIE's clients will be able to rapidly integrate data from any source and offer employees, partners and customers with new ways to find, analyze and understand that information."

"Endeca has played a pioneering role in redefining search and its application areas," said Miles Kehoe, President of New Idea Engineering. "By partnering with Endeca, we can introduce new types of enterprise search and discovery solutions to meet today's most pressing client demands, while playing a leadership role in defining future market opportunities for information access and visibility."

About Endeca

Endeca's innovative information access software helps people explore, analyze, and understand complex information, guiding them to unexpected insights and better decisions. The Endeca(R) Information Access Platform, built around a new class of access-optimized database, powers applications that combine the ease of searching and browsing with the analytical power of business intelligence. More than 500 leading global organizations including ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Enterprises, the (US) Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com rely on Endeca to power business-critical applications that increase revenue, reduce costs, and streamline operations.

About New Idea Engineering

New Idea Engineering (http://www.ideaeng.com) was founded in 1996 to provide vendor-neutral technical consulting, training, and programming to companies implementing enterprise search technologies. In addition, their articles, white papers, newsletter and blog have led the professional services industry for years. NIE is partners with all the major leading technology providers, Endeca, Automony, FAST, and Google. Their blog and electronic newsletter provide a free independent grassroots perspective.

Talent Technology Corporation, provider of award-winning recruiting software, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with InfoMart, one of North America's premier pre-employment and background screening providers.

InfoMart's vision is to use cutting-edge technology, combined with uncompromising personal service, to provide their clients a fast, simple, cost-effective and accurate system to screen potential employees.

"Our partnership with InfoMart broadens the options that Talent Technology is able to offer its customers for pre-employment screening with proven tools required in the hiring process," said Praj Patel, Executive Vice President of Talent Technology. "Organizations can feel confident that the people they hire reflect the standards they expect from their staff."

"We are excited to partner with Talent Technology," said Terry Wormley, National Account Executive - InfoMart. "We are dedicated to providing Talent Technology’s customers a product suite of tools to hire the right candidates – the first time. With many years of experience helping our customers hire the best, we are excited to now be able to help the customers of Talent Technology do the same."

"Talent Technology and InfoMart are reviewing options for closer product and service integration for future product releases," Greg Moran, Director, Industry Sales and Partnerships, Talent Technology, commented. "With increasing levels of scrutiny and compliance required during the hiring process, both organizations see opportunties to offer a better solution to ensure broader adoption of pre-employment screening."

About InfoMart

InfoMart is a premier provider of pre-employment screening services throughout North America. InfoMart knows that in today's extraordinarily tight employment market, companies are interviewing candidates they might not have considered in the past. As a result, applicant screening plays a crucial role in the hiring process. Each screening program is tailored to the client’s industry and their related exposure to risk. And while cost and efficiency are critical, at InfoMart, they never come at the expense of accuracy.

Our skilled staff and a network of more than 1,500 information retrievers work together to personally confirm each piece of data. Additionally, our automated quality assurance measures ensure that our clients can rely on the information in every applicant profile.

About Talent Technology Corporation

Talent Technology Corporation is a leading provider of on-demand applicant tracking and component recruiting technologies for the recruiting/staffing industry and corporate HR departments. Our award-winning HireDesk and Resume Mirror products power the recruiting industry. Key recruiting solution providers including Oracle, Taleo, ADP Virtual Edge, Bernard Hodes Group, Workopolis and many others partner with us to offer their clients advanced recruiting capabilities. In addition, hundreds of organizations ranging from Fortune 1000 firms to independent recruiting/staffing agencies rely on our products to automate, improve and better manage their sourcing, recruiting and hiring processes. Learn more about Talent Technology at www.talenttech.com. 

Greenplum, a leading provider of database software for business intelligence, today announced that Greenplum has joined the Informatica INFORM Partner Program. Through this new relationship Informatica Corporation, the leading independent provider of data integration software and services, and Greenplum will now engage in joint sales, marketing and development activities to better respond to the needs of joint customers.

Customers are experiencing unprecedented growth in data volumes and are looking to vendors such as Greenplum and Informatica to help them process data faster and more efficiently. The combination of Greenplum Database with Informatica's Data Integration platform will allow joint customers to gain efficiencies in their data loading, unloading and transformation processes. For example, customers can now leverage Greenplum's massively parallel processing architecture in conjunction with Informatica's flexible and powerful data management toolset to achieve high-speed data loading at rates exceeding four terabytes per hour.

The Informatica INFORM Partner Program provides a comprehensive set of programs and services to help Alliance Partners like Greenplum to develop and promote solutions in conjunction with Informatica. INFORM is designed to make it even easier for organizations to collaborate with Informatica in bringing the benefits of total enterprise data integration and quality to their customers around the globe.

"Informatica is very pleased to welcome Greenplum as an INFORM partner," said Harry Gould, senior vice president, Worldwide Alliances, Informatica. "As explosive data growth continues to push the limits of system capabilities, Informatica and Greenplum are helping customers scale their systems to support even the most data-intensive environments."

"Greenplum is delighted to be partnering with Informatica and to join the INFORM program," said Frank Bien, VP of Business Development, Greenplum. "Greenplum customers are managing extremely large data volumes and are certain to gain advantages as Greenplum and Informatica develop tighter integration across our product suites."

About Greenplum

Greenplum is a data warehouse software company that has developed the world's fastest, most scalable database software for business intelligence. Designed to handle extremely large and fast-growing data volumes, Greenplum Database enables companies to gain critical insights into their data and extend their competitive advantage in the market at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Greenplum Database powers the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance and is being used by some of the leading companies in the world, including Reliance Communications, Comcast, Skype, AirTran and O'Reilly Media. For more information about Greenplum, visit www.greenplum.com.

About Informatica

Informatica Corporation is the leading independent provider of data integration software and services. With Informatica, organizations can gain greater business value by integrating all their information assets from across the enterprise. More than 3,200 companies worldwide rely on Informatica to reduce the cost and expedite the time to address data integration needs of varying complexity and scale. For more information, visit www.informatica.com.