HP Business Decision Appliance

In terms of IT infrastructure deployment of crucial business applications very often requires special specific integration therefore the implementation project can last more than 1.5 years [2]. On the other hand, proprietary hardware and software systems in itself are rather difficult and expensive, and their integration into other business applications takes place difficult. Actually only 30% of IT projects on implementation of crucial business applications are estimated by the companies as "successful" [3]. As a result proprietary complexes cannot provide for the sake of what they were implemented, - to help employees to make the correct decisions and to interact effectively with each other.

New hardware and software systems from NR and Microsoft are the first in the industry solutions which are equally important both for IT specialists, and for business users. They ensure functioning of such important business applications as a business intelligence, data warehouses, OLTP and e-mail. The engineering complexes and services of consulting and technical support developed jointly by NR and Microsoft allow IT department to unroll crucial business applications literally in 1 hour whereas on deployment of the traditional systems months leave [4]. Besides, these complexes in comparison with the traditional integrated systems provide higher performance and scalability – to 40% and 25% respectively.

Thanks to HP Business Decision Appliance IT specialists considerably reduce time and spend less efforts for configuring, deployments and managements of the complete business and analytical solution. This hardware and software system includes Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SharePoint and can be unrolled less than in 1 hour.

The solution allows users to work with the analytical data created through PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel and in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 jointly. In turn, IT administrators can book on a centralized basis audit and operate applications through a uniform panel.

The complex of HP Business Decision Appliance is available through NR or network of partners of HP/Microsoft Frontline. Partners can also offer the additional services and possibilities of a business intelligence and data warehouses created on the basis of standard tools which are already known to their customers.

HP Business Data Warehouse Appliance is a complex of data storage for small and medium-sized companies which offers functionality of the corporate level and does not require administrators for service. The complex supplements the HP solution of Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance which is developed for the large companies and is optimized for SQL Server 2008 R2. It was provided in November, 2010 to HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance improves data access thanks to high scalability and faster request processing, than in traditional SQL Server databases. The compatibility with the platform of a business intelligence Microsoft allows to provide access to the solution to any employee of the company of the customer.