ParAccel Increases Channel Focus, Onboarding 42 New Reseller and Solution Provider Partners

CAMPBELL, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 5, 2012) - ParAccel, Inc., a leading enterprise analytics platform provider, today announced a targeted focus on select channel partners to support a vertical go-to-market strategy. Forty-two new resellers and solution providers will help companies create strategic value deploying ParAccel Analytic Platform at the core of big data analytic solutions.

Teaming with industry leading enterprise partners and boutique solution providers that have specific industry and business areas of expertise, ParAccel continues to help organizations overcome analytic challenges allowing them to analyze vast amounts of information and enable the analytics-driven enterprise. Through these hand selected partnerships, 59 deals have recently been registered signifying the excitement and growth in this space from both the channel community and the customers that they support.

"We recognize the value of being a ParAccel channel partner as an important step towards building a powerful big data ecosystem to support our expanding base of customers," said Sanjay B. Kucheria, CEO of Trinus Corporation. "With the combination of ParAccel and our deep industry experience, we will enable customers to accelerate their business, increase innovation, and beat their competition using analytics."

The 42 new partners include Brightlight Consulting, DataStrong, Denovo Group, Destiny Corporation, Express Analytics, iOLAP, IQ Associates, Ortess, Southport Services, and Trinus. Among the new partners are a number of companies with deep industry expertise in telecommunications, retail, healthcare, financial services, digital media, and government. ParAccel has also signed a number of Netezza resellers wanting to shift their business toward ParAccel Analytic Platform, the latest and most advanced analytics technology.

ParAccel also appoints Cindy Cole Sauvignon, a 15-year veteran of award winning global channel sales experience, to build on the momentum of the company's existing partner ecosystem, enabling resellers, solution providers, and distribution partners to sell and implement ParAccel solutions.

Before joining ParAccel, Sauvignon was vice president, Global Channels for Meru Networks, a leader in the virtualized wireless networking space, where she increased the top tier revenue partners by over 400 percent and doubled revenue with the top 200 partners. In 2011, Sauvignon was awarded a Computer Reseller News Channel Chief award for her success. Under her leadership channel revenue climbed over 20% year over year.

Prior to Meru Networks, Sauvignon drove worldwide channel sales for the enterprise division of Nuance Communications, a leading provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers, helping the company achieve $1 billion in sales. Sauvignon also held key roles on global strategic alliance teams and programs at leading companies such as Trend Micro, Sun/iPlanet and Novell. Prior to her channel experience she spent 10 years in enterprise sales roles in the US and UK.

"We will continue to empower our partners to work more closely and successfully with us to grow their businesses and address evolving customer requirements and sustain long-term customer loyalty," said Chuck Berger, CEO at ParAccel. "ParAccel has a dedicated focus on growing its solution sales by expanding its indirect channel capacity and building on a strong foundation for recruiting, educating, and engaging partners."

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel accelerates analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform is an analytic database surrounded by extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel's Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most prolific, most powerful, most expansive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335. The conversation continues on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.