2008:
Release of EXASolution 2.0 and opening of sales companies in Asia and the USA mean that EXASOL is also well prepared to enter the international market.

 

Gerhard Rumpff becomes new CEO at EXASOL AG.

 

EXASOL receives the signet “innovative product 2008”.

 

EXASOL again wins the TPC-H benchmark in the 100 and 300 GB category with EXASolution 2.0, for both performance and price/performance ratio.

 

 

2007:
EXASOL successfully completes the proof of concept at IMS Health, after which the product is rolled out and goes live after just 6 weeks.

 

EXASOL wins the TPC-H benchmark in the 1000 GB category with EXASolution 2.0, for both performance and price/performance ratio.

 

EXASOL’s workforce increases again in 2007. The team now consists of 45 highly qualified experts from 10 different nations.

 

 

2006:
EXASOL GmbH is converted into EXASOL AG.

The solution at KarstadtQuelle Information Services is expanded by integration of further, previously separate data warehouses in the central cross-departmental EXASOL data warehouse.

 

 

2005:
EXASOL starts cooperating with well-known BI/DW service providers and software vendors (e.g. Business Objects, MicroStrategy) and hardware vendors (e.g. Intel).

 

 

2004:
EXASOL wins the prestigious European innovation prize IST (Information Society Technology)

 

KarstadtQuelle Information Services successfully tests and accepts the DWA on schedule and uses it operationally for its entire marketing database.

 

EXASOL employs 33 people at the end of the year.

 

 

2003:
EXASOL GmbH presents the Data Warehouse Accelerator (DWA) for accelerating databases such as Microsoft SQL, etc., to the public.

 

The name EXASOL is composed of the terms EXA and SOL and denotes a solution that in analysis of extremely large volumes of data (EXA is the order of magnitude 1018) offers maximum speed (SOL was once used as a unit for speed).

 

IT ConSol GmbH is renamed EXASOL GmbH.

 

 

2002:
IT ConSol GmbH wins the North Bavaria Business Plan Contest with its innovative technological approach.

 

IT ConSol GmbH presents the first prototype of the Data Warehouse Accelerator (DWA) at KarstadtQuelle Information Services, a service provider of QUELLE AG.

 

 

2000:
The research work gives rise to IT ConSol GmbH, founded by Dr. Michael Gutzmann in Erlangen at the end of 2000.

 

 

1985-1999:
Dr. Michael Gutzmann develops the visionary technological approach on which EXASOL’s solution is based during work on his doctorate (thesis “Evaluating the Performance of Massively Parallel Computer Systems”) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and during his subsequent research work on massively parallel algorithms and data analyses at the University of Jena.

 

In 1985, Dr. Michael Gutzmann starts research into high-performance cluster computing.