Vertica Systems, the leading provider of real-time analytics platforms, today announced that AOL Inc. (NYSE:

) has selected the Vertica Analytics Platform as part of its ongoing efforts to enhance its business intelligence and reporting solutions across AOL. The Vertica Analytics Platform was selected after a rigorous evaluation process where Vertica excelled in meeting AOL's requirements for data load time, query speed and simplicity, concurrency, and overall scalability on the commodity hardware used by the company.