HP-Microsoft Overview

Many companies say they're Microsoft technology experts. But how many bet their business on it—as we do with our $80-billion global enterprise? That's called "Walking your talk."

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HP-Microsoft Alliance

Like you, we have a lot at stake when it comes to our IT infrastructure, and the applications, tools, and platforms that run it. So is it any wonder that we have invested millions in research and development with Microsoft to design, build, test, and deliver the best solutions to make your enterprise adaptable and enable your business to take advantage of change?

Helping enterprises get more value from their information technology investments is what our 20-year alliance is all about. Working closely with Microsoft as a trusted partner, HP has delivered more Microsoft-based solutions, in more places, and with more of the most highly trained and certified experts on the planet. And with the largest and most experienced Microsoft-trained workforce, HP Global services offers superior talent and experience to plan, design, implement, manage, and support the entire breadth of Microsoft Windows technologies to enable you to reduce your risk and accelerate your time-to-solution.

We've developed a unique set of capabilities to help you build an efficient, responsive Web-enabled enterprise using the power of Microsoft technology on HP systems. In fact, our commitment to our customers has earned HP numerous awards and recognitions, including the Microsoft 2005 Global Enterprise Services and Technology Partner of the Year. This close association has earned HP a key endorsement as "Prime Integrator" of Microsoft technologies, including BizTalk Server.

Customers can be confident that the IT systems and solutions HP delivers have been developed with Microsoft and with a shared vision aimed at providing solutions that are predictable, reliable, and are proven for addressing real-world customer challenges.

Whether it's HP ProLiant servers delivering excellent price/performance and value for small- to medium-scale applications and databases as well as Internet infrastructure, or HP Integrity servers providing benchmarked industry-leading performance, reliability, and scalability for large-scale, mission-critical databases and line of business applications—HP servers and Microsoft Windows deliver IT solutions that can scale to meet a broad range of needs. Since July, 2002, HP and Microsoft invested $50M in the .NET Results program, which has delivered solutions through more than 1,700 projects for more than 1,000 unique customers around the world, and has produced more than $1B in total revenues.

Product Overview

Because we can deliver all of the service and support necessary to implement powerful business solutions, Microsoft endorses HP Services as the only Worldwide Prime Integrator for Windows Server 2003, Windows NT, Exchange 2003 Server, and BizTalk Server 2004. Specifically with Microsoft SQL Server, Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine voted the HP ProLiant DL580 G3 server the "Best of TechEd 2005." And as a testament to the overwhelming customer confidence in the quality and performance of HP products for SQL Server, HP won the overall "Best Hardware" category in SQL Server Magazine's 2005 Readers' Choice Awards—by write-in vote of customers in the e-in, user-nominated category.

• With the launch of a new generation of Microsoft application infrastructure and tools with SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006, HP and Microsoft continue the tradition of a shared commitment to ensure our customers' IT systems, particularly in mission-critical environments, deliver the right information at the right time to help them drive better business and buying decisions.
• When it comes to providing highly scalable Business Intelligence solutions for mission-critical environments, HP is a recognized leader. According to Winter Corporation's "Top Ten" Program, a survey of the largest and most heavily used databases, HP outnumbers other vendors by a factor of two in both the multi-OS list and the Windows-specific list of largest data warehouses.
• HP delivers unmatched business value through a combination of the most complete and capable x86 and Itanium-based platforms and storage solutions available for SQL Server 2005, BizTalk 2006, and Visual Studio 2005, plus unmatched global service and support capabilities.
• The database server is a critical component of any business' information architecture. Business conditions can change in an instant. Microsoft SQL Server 2005, together with HP solutions and services, can help businesses build the critical IT infrastructures that are flexible, powerful, and able to mitigate risk, improve performance, and increase agility.
• With Itanium-based HP Integrity server solutions, HP is leading the way in computing for mission-critical Windows environments with outstanding reliability, breakthrough performance, and unmatched scalability.

HP is number #1 in Windows market share and in Windows/Itanium market-share (Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker Release, 2005)

Joint Value Proposition

If performance and value are your criteria, it's hard to find a more "decorated" veteran in the mid-market server space than HP ProLiant. These systems have held No. 1 position in the x86 server market for 35 consecutive quarters—that's almost nine years—and awards keep rolling in: "2005 Best Product" by Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine and "Best of Show" at TechEd 2005, are just a few of the most recent recognitions of the confidence that customers have in its quality and performance.

HP Integrity solutions revenue surpassed $1B in our past fiscal year (2004), which shows that customers around the world trust Intel Itanium 2-based HP Integrity servers for their most demanding business workloads. This also shows a strong move to the performance, productivity, and reliability of 64-bit computing with our Integrity solutions for their most demanding, mission-critical enterprise business needs—and the new enhancements within SQL Server 2005 will make the value proposition of these solutions even more compelling.

With Visual Studio 2005, HP is leveraging our strong partnership with Microsoft in delivering .NET solutions through "APPRISE"—a new, comprehensive Enterprise Project and Process management solution that will enable developers to be more productive. APPRISE will be an exciting capability to help developers get to market faster and lower costs. With this latest release of Visual Studio 2005, HP and Microsoft are providing additional value to developers through native 64-bit capability.

HP has delivered hundreds of enterprise integration engagements using BizTalk Server for large, heterogeneous environments—so many, in fact, that HP Services is recognized by Microsoft as Worldwide Prime Integrator for BizTalk Server. We've earned that unique distinction by helping customers reduce complexity in the enterprise through efficiently and effectively integrating systems, employees, and trading partners faster than ever before.

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