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An overview of the
Business Intelligence Solutions (BIS) group of
HP was given by
John
Santaferraro, Senior Director of Marketing Communication and Industry
Marketing, plus on the phone was
Simone Burrows, Director of Health & Life Sciences
Solutions and
Rob Simonds, Director of Communications, Media, &
Entertainment. He talked about partnerships with Informatica to resell their products "on HP paper" and SAP with integration of NeoView with NetWeaver Business Warehouse. An overview of BIS is given
here as a 4-page PDF.
John was asked about the number of NeoView customers. Based it is HP's policy not to report customer numbers at the division level, he was not able to state numbers but mentioned the
case of
Woolies in Australia as an example of a large retail customer who is publicly pleased with NeoView. In January, HP & Microsoft announced that they have jointly allocated $250M to support joint activities for R&D, product development and go-to-market. These funds came from reallocation from other HP partnership that are of lower priorities (such as Oracle). Using the sensor technology in HP printers,
HP is partnering with Shell Oil to apply that technology to high-resolution seismic data collection in drilling operations. As we discussed HP's professional service, the previous , in contrast to EDS whom is relatively independently operated.
He then addressed HP's position for BIS. The key statement is... "."
. John admitted that "it take time" citing the ups/downs of the Compaq acquisition. It is just very d
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She remarked, "." The example of Blue Cross Blue Shield in Kansas City was cited.
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During the break, Merv was jammin'. He is great!
John continued with a status report on NeoView, which was mostly confidential. He " :) The greatest energy cost is cooling the data center, with the processor boards accounting for 13% of that cooling cost. A NeoView update is scheduled for mid year but the details are confidential. New hardware, in contrast to new software, is driving innovations data warehousing platforms and applications.
John ended with several nuggets of futures for HP. It was mostly questions to ponder, not just from HP's perspective but from a entire industry perspective.