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Frontier Selects Greenplum's Bizgres MPP to Fuel Flight Analysis Engine

Posted on: Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 09:00 CDT

Greenplum, the leading provider of enterprise PostgreSQL for business intelligence (BI), today announced that Frontier Airlines has selected the Bizgres MPP data warehouse solution to enable rapid analysis of flight-related data. The deployment is part of the airline's commitment to using advanced technology to deliver world-class customer service at the lowest prices.

The second largest jet service carrier at Denver International Airport, Frontier Airlines is an affordable fare airline that provides service to 47 destinations in 29 states and seven cities in Mexico. Greenplum partnered with business analytics consulting firm, Daxpy LLC, to design and deploy a system for Frontier to quickly analyze flight data, availability and pricing -- delivering the best and lowest cost routes to its customers.

"The competition is intense in the airline industry and Frontier is committed to staying ahead of the curve by leveraging technology that will help us offer the best prices and the best flight experience," said Robert Rapp, CIO, Frontier Airlines. "Bizgres MPP fits right in with our philosophy of providing world-class performance at a low price. We have been impressed by its ability to quickly analyze massive amounts of flight data while running on low cost, off-the-shelf hardware."

Bizgres MPP's unique "shared-nothing" architecture delivers breakthrough performance for complex data analysis by distributing data across a cluster of inexpensive servers, which enables unprecedented processing speeds at a low cost.

"Price-performance leadership is as critical to Frontier's value proposition as it is to Greenplum's. We are pleased that Frontier is using Bizgres MPP today to solve problems that were previously too difficult and costly to address," said Scott Yara, president, Greenplum. "To remain competitive, Frontier demands a 'non-traditional' solution. Bizgres MPP's unique combination of open source architecture, software-only packaging and ability to leverage commodity servers dramatically lowers the cost of large-scale data analysis."

Bizgres MPP extends the capabilities of the PostgreSQL database system, already widely regarded as best-in-class for enterprise features such as transaction processing, data integrity and security. A PostgreSQL-based, software-only, clustered solution, Bizgres MPP enables organizations like Frontier to grow their data warehouse capabilities in conjunction with their needs.

Frontier Airlines has the youngest Airbus fleet in North America and offers 24 channels of DIRECTV(R) service in every seatback along with 33 inches of legroom in all coach configurations. In July 2005, Frontier was ranked as one of the "Top 10 Domestic Airlines" as determined by readers of Travel & Leisure magazine.

About Greenplum

Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Greenplum is the leading provider of high-performance PostgreSQL for Business Intelligence. Greenplum's Bizgres family of breakthrough database products is poised to revolutionize the way enterprises use BI to gain key competitive advantages in the marketplace, from departmental data marts to multi-terabyte data warehouses. The company sponsors The Bizgres Project, a community effort designed to make PostgreSQL the most robust open source database for data warehousing and BI. For more information about Greenplum, visit www.greenplum.com. For more information on The Bizgres Project, visit www.bizgres.org.

Source: Business Wire

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