Collaboration Delivers Tangible Results
20 Oct 2008
A Long History of Collaboration Among HP, EDS and Oracle Leads to World-Class Solutions
In today's challenging business market, technology has become a powerful operational tool, providing the means to connect many disparate functions and processes across the company. The IT environment should enable reliable and secure sharing of information, triggering of events, and correlation of components between business units, helping the enterprise to reach its goals and maintain a competitive edge in the marketplace.
But you can't go it alone. There is simply too much at stake. You need business allies that know and understand your market and your industry, who work in tandem with experts in the field to bring you leading-edge solutions to 21st century problems.
At EDS, an HP company, we leverage not only decades of IT service experience but our unique partner ecosystem, the EDS Agility Alliance, to accelerate business value through the convergence and management of information within your enterprise. We're collaborating with the best minds in the IT industry to develop products that anticipate – and ultimately meet – the future needs of our clients. Through proactive joint solution development, we provide solutions that deliver tangible results to help you, our client, get ahead of the curve.
Our collaborations include market leading companies like Oracle, a member of the Agility Alliance since 2005. This partnership has resulted in the development of effective end-to-end solutions spanning the infrastructure, applications, and business processes of our client and dramatically impacting the way we approach IT. The benefits of this long-term partnership with Oracle have been further enhanced by EDS's recent acquisition by HP, adding new opportunities to increase the value EDS can deliver to our clients.
“Our ability to work side-by-side with HP is helping us find greater intersects between EDS and our enterprise customers, which in turn provides enhanced opportunity for EDS to deliver innovation to those customers and prospects,” said Seamus Egan, director of EDS Global Alliances. “We are already seeing results from the evolving collaboration of EDS Agility Alliance Partners such as Oracle with HP to develop strategies for the changing marketplace. For example, our recent work with Oracle and HP to re-architect a client's database server farm resulted in a 90% reduction in server count through consolidation onto an Oracle Database 11g framework. With access to collaborative environments like HP Labs, we are able to develop these kinds of joint solutions more effectively and deliver accelerated time to value for our customers.”
Another example of innovation through close partner collaboration is the newly launched Oracle Exadata Storage offerings: the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine. These new storage solutions are designed to deliver dramatically improved performance for large data warehouses, resulting in speedier decision making for business users. Oracle Exadata Storage is a combination of smart storage software from Oracle and industry-standard hardware from HP.
“This venture marks an industry-first, combining HP's remarkable ability for innovation with Oracle's products and expertise,” said Mike Crowsen, Vice President, Oracle Alliance, HP. “We are excited by the possibilities presented in merging our HP-Oracle relationship with Oracle's already-robust connection to EDS. It greatly expands our collective ability to be our clients' business ally.”
Oracle has maintained a formal agreement with EDS for twenty years, and with HP for more than 25 years.
“It is a natural progression for the three companies to align even further in order to provide world class solutions,” said John Gawkowski, Vice President Platform Technology Solutions at Oracle. “Oracle and HP have a long history of providing enterprise class solutions and award-winning customer support to our clients worldwide. Combine this with EDS value-added services, and we're able to deliver innovative solutions that drive tangible business value. It is a great way for our clients to maximize their IT investments.”
Gawkowski also anticipates that the synergy between Oracle and HP, with the added element of EDS, will continue to play a key role in the Applications Modernization Initiative (hp.com/go/ami). This initiative is a multi-vendor collaboration that delivers specialized hardware, software and services that are designed to help companies easily transition from legacy environments to an open-standards based infrastructure that is flexible enough to meet dynamic business conditions. Both EDS and HP have been involved in delivering application modernization solutions, but now those efforts can be more closely aligned for even greater benefit.
“It's about bringing best practices, smart answers and great technology together,” said Gawkowski. “Collectively, we have the unmatched ability to provide clients with a clear and seamless path from their legacy environments to Open Systems.”
Greg Robins, Vice President EDS Global Alliances, agrees.
“Having HP contribute to the long-standing EDS-Oracle Alliance has really stepped up our game,” Robins says. “It brings in a totally new perspective, and helps us incorporate service methodology into the final product. Oracle, of course, adds a vast array of technology and vertical industry products. Combine that with EDS' end-to-end systems integration and innovation and you've got a rich portfolio of sophisticated solutions that have the opportunity to revolutionize the market.”
Learn more about the enhanced collaboration among EDS, HP and Oracle by listening to HP's Oracle OpenWorld podcast series, conversations at the 2008 event with experts on HP/Oracle solutions.