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News
Public Relations Department
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, California 94304
EDITORIAL CONTACT:
Rebecca Landre
(408) 447-5333
HP RELEASES OPENWAREHOUSE: FIRST FULLY SCALABLE, OPEN SYSTEMS DATA WAREHOUSING
SOLUTION
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 5, 1993 -- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced
release of OpenWarehouse, the first fully scalable open systems solution for
data warehousing. OpenWarehouse is the newest offering in the portfolio of HP
Cooperative Computing Solutions.
In contrast to mainframe and proprietary data warehouse offerings, HP's
OpenWarehouse is the first available data warehousing solution that conforms to
industry-accepted open system standards. "By taking an open systems approach,
HP is able to offer data warehousing solutions at a fraction of the cost of
expensive proprietary solutions", explained Rich Sevcik, Group General Manager
for Hewlett-Packard's Systems and Servers Group. "OpenWarehouse is open, not
only because it is built on a standards-based system, but also because it
offers businesses choice in both databases and best-of-class tools."
"HP offers an outstanding client/server solution for implementing a data
warehouse", stated Bill Inmon, executive vice president of Prism Solutions and
widely considered the "father" of the data warehouse. "The OpenWarehouse
program is more than pure technology; it's a pragmatic solution that works
today."
"The real strength of OpenWarehouse", added Sevcik, "is that it can deliver the
flexibility of open systems, together with the safety, security, and
reliability that have, in the past, been associated with more expensive,
proprietary solutions." These benefits of "safety, security, and reliability"
are provided through HP's single-vendor sponsored integration, testing,
consulting, and support.
All HP and third-party components making up the OpenWarehouse solution are
rigorously evaluated, lab tested, and integrated. This greatly reduces the
time to implement a solution and results in much more robust, supportable
installations.
As the result of the testing and integration of the various components, HP is
able to offer single-source support for the full OpenWarehouse solution.
Single-source support allows customers to choose components that best suit
their needs, without having to worry about the finger pointing that often
occurs when problems arise with multiple products and vendors.
In addition to its first in open-systems support services, HP is also the first
major vendor to provide a suite of consulting services for designing and
implementing an open systems data warehouse--services that can help businesses
get started quickly and then expand their warehouse over time.
In contrast to other market offerings, the HP OpenWarehouse provides full
scalability on a single platform family to meet the needs of departments and
small business units up to very large enterprises.
-- more --
-- HP Releases OpenWarehouse (page 2 of 2) --
OpenWarehouse has already demonstrated its effectiveness at several major
companies, such as General Mills. The General Mills staff reported that the
replacement of their MVS/DB2 mainframe decision support application with an HP
OpenWarehouse resulted both in the immediate lowering of operation costs and in
improved performance.
HP's OpenWarehouse solution was also chosen by 7-Eleven Japan Co., Ltd., where
Makoto Usui, general manager of the information systems development department,
commented that HP was selected "based on its expertise in providing cost-
effective connectivity to mainframes and commercial software".
HP's first release of OpenWarehouse integrates a variety of best-in-class
products including Red Brick Warehouse from Red Brick Systems, Prism Warehouse
Manager from Prism Solutions, EXTRACT from Evolutionary Technologies,
Enterprise Data Access/SQL from Information Builders, Open Development
Environment from Open Environment Corporation, and HP Information Access from
Hewlett-Packard. Later releases will expand the portfolio to include
additional major vendors.
HP intends to add future support for business modeling to the OpenWarehouse
through use of OpenODB, HP's object oriented database. OpenODB has already
been selected as a basis for business modeling by several industry groups, such
as the Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation (POSC).
HP is the third-largest computer company in the United States, with computer
revenue in excess of
$12 billion in its 1992 fiscal year.
Hewlett-Packard Company is an international manufacturer of measurement and
computation products and systems recognized for excellence in quality and
support. The company's products and services are used in industry, business,
engineering, science, medicine, and education in approximately 110 countries.
HP has 93,100 employees and had revenue of 16.4 billion in its 1992 fiscal
year.
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