HP and Business Objects Transforming information into intelligence 1
Empowering your organization Intelligence: the ability to acquire and apply knowledge. For businesses today, gaining intelligence means tapping the vast and diverse pools of information residing across the enterprise from desktop to data center, from shop floor to corner office, and everywhere in between. It takes sophisticated software to integrate, analyze, and report on an ever-growing repository of data. And it requires a powerful, flexible technology infrastructure that can deliver the responsiveness and agility to transform information into action in a rapidly changing business climate. HP and Business Objects bring together the complementary strengths you need to build and implement business intelligence (BI) solutions that enable more timely, more informed business decisions. Business Objects is one of the world s leading BI software companies, helping over 30,000 customers worldwide gain better insight into their businesses, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. HP is a leading global provider of BI infrastructures, having delivered thousands of data warehouses built on innovative HP hardware, software, and service offerings. Through our close collaboration, HP and Business Objects provide complete, integrated business intelligent solutions that can refine massive amounts of data and handle complex queries empowering your organization by delivering the right information to the right people at the right time. Taking BI to a whole new level From data integration to performance management, the BusinessObjects XI BI platform helps answer your most important business questions. It provides fast, consistent access to all the reports you need, with a clear view of all your key performance indicators available in a single intuitive dashboard. And with BusinessObjects XI delivered on a high-performance, highly scalable, and agile HP infrastructure, you have the ideal way to gain verifiable insight trusted information you can access wherever it s stored, whenever you need it. Together, HP and Business Objects are taking BI to a whole new level. HP platforms lead the industry in performance, price:performance, and scalability. From a small BI reporting implementation to a departmental data mart to one of the largest multiterabyte enterprise data warehouses in the world, HP has the platform breadth to handle your most demanding BI challenges. HP BladeSystem To support rapid growth and business agility during changing business conditions, the HP BladeSystem integrated infrastructure is ideal for BusinessObjects XI implementations. BusinessObjects XI is validated on the HP BladeSystem. Organizations choose an HP BladeSystem environment as a technology infrastructure to deploy multiple applications, eliminating the need to build multiple application silos. Using blade servers, an application workload can utilize additional capacity when needed through automated provisioning technologies. The HP BladeSystem architecture provides a highly flexible and scalable environment that enables you to embrace change while dramatically reducing total cost of ownership. The virtualization capabilities of the HP BladeSystem empower IT organizations to automatically respond to 2
fluctuating business requirements by using software to allocate resources flexibly without manual intervention. In addition, the consolidation and built-in intelligence of these systems support advanced management tools that automate and simplify a wide range of manual IT tasks. HP BladeSystem infrastructures are the next evolution of industry-standard, scale-out architectures and provide a more efficient way to build a BI infrastructure optimized for efficiency and change. HP combines the simplicity and efficiency of blade design and the low cost of standards with the industry s leading enterprise management tools to create a universal platform for Linux and Microsoft Windows environments. With the HP BladeSystem, you have a solid foundation for building an Adaptive Enterprise in which business and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change. HP Integrity servers HP Integrity servers are designed with BI in mind. They are scalable, highly parallel systems with huge I/O bandwidth, high availability, and extensive virtualization capabilities, making them a preferred platform for demanding Business Objects data integration and data warehouse implementations. With their outstanding performance and scalability capabilities, HP Integrity servers are particularly well suited for large data integration, data consolidation, and data warehousing projects. In fact, with BusinessObjects Data Integrator and your relational database system of choice, such as Oracle, running on HP Integrity servers with the HP-UX 11i operating environment, you have a powerful way to explore, extract, transform, and deliver data anywhere providing information that is accurate, timely, and trustworthy. HP Integrity servers provide the right platform at the right price to support your Business Objects data integration or data warehousing solutions and meet a broad range of BI needs. Unified infrastructure management HP also provides the benefit of easily unifying management of your HP (and non-hp) server and storage devices with HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM), which is shipped with every HP ProLiant, BladeSystem, and Integrity server. HP SIM 5.0 provides a simple, secure, unified platform to manage your server and storage environments. It enables your organization to consolidate the management of hardware resources, reduce troubleshooting and asset management complexity, and increase control over the physical and virtual elements within your server and storage infrastructure. HP SIM also provides interoperability with industry-leading enterprise management platforms such as HP OpenView and third-party tools. So whether your Business Objects implementations call for UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Linux, or a combination of all three, HP servers with HP SIM offer you the power, ease, and flexibility to utilize and manage your server and storage resources for maximum efficiency and return on investment (ROI). With HP adaptive server technologies and Business Objects, you get: Superior choice to match your availability and performance needs to keep BI flowing throughout your organization Focused innovation and management to build an agile infrastructure for all your changing BI needs World-class experience to design and build a solid foundation for your BI environment, leveraging the power of the HP portfolio 3
BusinessObjects XI combined with the HP BladeSystem architecture provides us with the easy scalability that we re looking for, as well as a trusted platform as a centralized solution. Steve Holland, Business Intelligence Architect Turner Broadcasting System
Delivering industry-leading systems management solutions In addition to industry-leading BI infrastructure offerings, HP also supports Business Objects solutions with intelligent systems management capabilities. The award-winning HP OpenView management suite and complementary IT Service Management (ITSM) services are ideal for designing, deploying, and managing dynamic Business Objects IT workloads. HP OpenView Business Process Insight HP OpenView Business Process Insight (BPI) adds additional capabilities to your enterprise by vastly reducing the cost, time, and effort required to gain end-to-end business process visibility. So you not only gain intelligence from the information in your business but also through the processes in which that information is handled. This is the ideal way to: Optimize business process health and performance Track each unique business transaction across applications Identify both IT and business performance problems within the business process flow Understand the business impact and potential impact of problems Demonstrate measurable improvements in business performance BusinessObjects XI with HP OpenView BPI will enable organizations to more tightly link business operations with people and the way they work. The combination will deliver near real-time process monitoring along with analytics that accelerate insight by bringing the BI information closer to where decisions are made. This combined solution will extend the value of industry-specific Business Objects solutions to operational applications that will immediately track the business process and measure process impact on business operations. This new information will guide decision-making, allowing organizations to optimize business processes by identifying inefficiencies and setting performance goals that are easily monitored by assigning accountability to owners. Together, HP OpenView and Business Objects enable you to align business operations and the people involved more closely and dynamically to meet your business objectives. HP OpenView Service Quality Manager Today, service providers of all kinds are competing more and more with differentiated value-added services. That means management of service quality is crucial to generate new revenue streams as well as to retain existing customers. HP OpenView Service Quality Manager (SQM) automates the definition, configuration, real-time monitoring, and the historical reporting of operational service levels and customer service level agreements. HP OpenView SQM monitors the end-to-end quality of service by aggregating information from all relevant sources within the infrastructure as well as the service providers business processes themselves. This aggregated information is compared in real time against service-level objectives and automatically alerts IT staff if action is required to meet those objectives. HP OpenView SQM pre-integrates Business Objects innovative query and analysis capability. So you can deliver the right BI to the right people at the right time to maximize service quality. 5
Collaborative software solutions that deliver results HP Revenue Analyzer software Powered by Business Objects Designed with the telecommunications industry, HP RA enables network and service providers to focus on revenue generation and collection via enterprise-wide monitoring. HP End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility software Available on the BusinessObjects XI platform Together with BusinessObjects XI and HP infrastructure, the HP End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility solution delivers integrated components enabling rapid, informed collaboration between supply partners and customers. Collaborating to deliver industry-specific solutions HP and Business Objects also collaborate to deliver an array of industry-specific solutions, including solutions for telecommunications and manufacturing. For example, HP Fraud Management System and HP Revenue Analyzer are specifically designed to reduce risk and increase revenues with very focused BI solutions for the telecom industry. And the HP End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility solution helps manufacturers capture and analyze supply chain data that supports informed decision-making, mitigates risk, and improves processes. HP Fraud Management System and HP Revenue Analyzer The HP Fraud Management System (HP FMS) protects a telecommunication carrier s revenue by identifying and stopping fraud quickly and effectively. This essential solution is used to protect networks at over 65 carriers in 34 countries worldwide, providing a cumulative coverage umbrella for nearly 230 million subscribers each day. Because the nature of fraud can change within hours as the perpetrators of fraud discover new exploits, HP FMS is engineered not only to maintain protection from known threats but to also be responsive enough to adapt to specific fraud vulnerabilities as they arise. Within the HP FMS solution, Business Objects is used to provide end users with up-to-date information that is critical to resolving fraud issues quickly, thus minimizing losses. HP RA presents new insights on revenue generation, revenue collection, calling patterns, and business processes, and offers a rapid return on investment HP Revenue Analyzer (HP RA) is a tool to be used as part of a carrier s total revenue assurance program. Jointly developed by HP and Business Objects, HP RA has a powerful analytical front end powered by Business Objects that enables network and service providers to focus on revenue generation and collection via enterprisewide monitoring, identification, and leakage analysis. HP RA presents new insights on revenue generation, revenue collection, calling patterns, and business processes and offers a rapid ROI. HP RA along with HP Services implementation methodology offers a compelling solution to operators looking for a complete picture of their revenue streams and innovative ways of revenue optimization. 6
HP End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility The HP End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility solution offers the right methodology and integrated components to enable informed decision-making by the right people at the right time. It also helps to mitigate risk and improve processes. The solution platform enables collaboration between an enterprise and its extended supply chain (supply partners and customers) to facilitate effective near real-time decisions and to improve supply chain processes enhancing the customer experience and reducing supply chain cost. The solution platform enables collaboration between an enterprise and its extended supply chain to facilitate effective real-time decisions. Available with the BusinessObjects XI platform and HP infrastructure, the HP End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility solution delivers a rapid, low-cost deployment of foundational capabilities, leveraging standard business processes to add business value. HP Services leveraging BI to your advantage Making the right decisions for your business requires timely access to accurate information. But how do you wade through an endless sea of confusing and all-too-often conflicting data to come up with the right information to help you make those decisions? And if you can find the answers, how do you effectively make use of the information? The BI experts with HP Services can help. Working closely with Business Objects, HP Services can create a BI solution to fit your specific needs and accelerate your time-to-benefits. With HP as your trusted partner, we can help you: Shorten the development and delivery cycle Minimize risk while maximizing ROI with our proven methodology Plan deployments with a detailed road map Start small with a pilot and scale up to a data warehouse or data mart HP and Business Objects also jointly partner with strategic systems integration alliances such as Accenture, BearingPoint, and Capgemini to leverage best practices and rapidly deliver comprehensive, complete, and focused BI solutions. BI solutions from HP and Business Objects give you the power to quickly integrate your data and transform it into meaningful intelligence so you gain insight into your business, driving informed decision-making and enhanced profitability. 7
For more information contact your HP or Business Objects representative today, or visit: www.hp.com/solutions/businessobjects www.hp.com/go/blades www.hp.com/go/integrity For information on HP Process Aware Business Intelligence with Business Objects: http://managementsoftware.hp.com/partner/isv/businessobjects.jsp HP FMS and HP RA: HP Manufacturing Solutions: Business Objects: www.hp.com/go/fraud www.hp.com/go/manufacturing www.businessobjects.com Copyright 2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. Microsoft and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Linux is a U.S. registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Oracle is a registered U.S. trademark of Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, California. Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Analysis, WebIntelligence, RapidMarts, and BusinessQuery are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects SA or its affiliated companies in the United States and other countries. The Capgemini logo and Rightshore are trademarks or registered trademarks of Capgemini. 4AA0-2757ENW, November 2005