SAN FRANCISCO - March 14, 2013 - Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, today announced that McKenney's Inc., in a speech at the Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit in Grapevine, Texas, will describe how it is using Splunk® Enterprise to generate valuable insight from facilities and energy sensors. The session, "McKenney's Turns Big Data Sources into Better Business Insights" is scheduled to take place Wednesday, March 20 at 9:30 a.m. CDT.

McKenney's will address how organizations seeking to integrate streams of unstructured data with traditional business intelligence can use Splunk software to gain operational intelligence. The session will also examine how McKenney's is using Splunk software to analyze data from facility control and energy management sensors for continuous commissioning and advanced fault detection and diagnosis in order to control costs and improve operations. The speakers will include Brian Gilmore, program manager of enterprise intelligence for McKenney's, and Tapan Bhatt, senior director of solutions marketing for Splunk.

Guido Schroeder, senior vice president of products for Splunk, is also speaking at the summit as part of an industry panel about big data analytics. Schroeder will participate in the panel "The Myth and Reality of Big Data Analytics", which is scheduled for Tuesday, March 19, at 9:30 a.m. CT. The panel will cover the finer details of today's big data analytics architectural approaches, justifications, key challenges and monetization. Audience members will be invited to participate in the debate.

"The big data analytics landscape is rapidly changing the way people think about business intelligence, with more enterprises realizing the need to use their machine data from across the enterprise to develop operational intelligence," said Schroeder. "It's crucial that organizations continue the dialogue around business opportunities and even potential stumbling points for big data."

Splunk will exhibit throughout the event at booth #315.

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