Shopzilla, formerly BizRate.com, connects millions of shoppers with thousands of merchants, tracking the flow of traffic, purchases, product searches, among other key events transpiring through its shopping search site. Web site activity results in the company processing 40 gigabytes of information daily – information the company, its business units, and its merchants rely upon for insight and to make key decisions. Previously, Shopzilla delivered daily reports to its merchants and internal audiences relying on a homegrown reporting system in conjunction with a 2.5 terabyte Oracle data warehouse.

With a growing business, new Web site features resulting in more data for analysis, and changing customer needs, Shopzilla plans to deploy a new data warehouse comprised of Oracle Database(r) 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters running on six Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers with two Intel Core Duo processors on Linux.

"Shopzilla's business managers rely on real-time web-traffic data to understand the general health of our business. The enterprise data warehouse satisfies their need for information about both short and long term trends and helps them make key decisions on a daily basis," said Mark Mathews, Senior Director, Business Intelligence, Shopzilla. "As a rapidly growing company, we're at a point where we need a data warehouse that incorporates most of our enterprise's data which helps us to expand the scope of information that we deliver to our users. Oracle Real Application Clusters allows us to scale at the lowest cost."

Shopzilla Standardizes on Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE for Pervasive BI
Following a thorough five-week pilot phase, Shopzilla chose Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE) as its platform for alerts, dashboards, and self-service reporting capabilities throughout the enterprise. The company tested Oracle Business Intelligence Answers, Oracle Business Intelligence Dashboards, and Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers modules of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE on top of its clustered Oracle Database with great success. In April 2007, Shopzilla deployed Oracle's BI product to minimize the need for homegrown dashboards, implement a standard, companywide system for real-time alerting, and enable the easy rollout of self-service reporting for internal audiences.

"Oracle Business Intelligence Suite is a perfect fit for our company," added Mathews. "After evaluating several well-known BI tools, we found the Oracle BI product to be the most powerful yet simple and easy to use. Our executives were excited when they saw it's capabilities, and we think it's going be a huge success here at Shopzilla."

About Shopzilla
Shopzilla, is the most comprehensive shopping search site on the Web. With an index of more than 30 million products from more than 92,000 stores, Shopzilla uses ShopRank, a proprietary patent-pending algorithm, to help shoppers instantly find virtually anything on sale from anyone, anywhere on the Web at the best price. Shopzilla also features powerful comparison tools and BizRate consumer reviews of stores and products, the Web's largest and most trusted consumer feedback network. Every week Shopzilla prepares millions of shoppers to make smarter, more confident purchases and delivers them directly to the checkout page of thousands of online merchants. Shopzilla also operates the BizRate consumer feedback network which collects approximately 1 million fresh shopping reviews per month. Founded in 1996, the Los Angeles-based company also operates sites in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Shopzilla is owned by The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE:SSP - News), a diverse media concern with interests in national television networks, newspaper publishing, broadcast television stations, TV retailing and licensing and syndication. For more information, visit www.shopzilla.com.

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