Data Management Strategies for the CIOWhat specific business intelligence data warehouse products and services is HP launching?
HP Neoview is an integrated hardware and software platform that has been optimized for decision
support workloads. It's not a general-purpose database, but optimized for complex queries in
terabytes of data. It's also very scalable, so you can scale up to hundreds of terabytes in the
initial configurations [of] up to 256 processors. It's built on industry standard components and
runs our Integrity server platform, so it's not a specifically designed hardware device. It uses an
optimized relational database that is built from the SQL NonStop platform and uses a version of the
operating system from the NonStop family.
There are also four services that we're announcing: strategy and planning, information quality,
information integration and information delivery. You refer to HP Neoview as a business
intelligence data warehouse hardware/software bundle. Is this an appliance?
It's an appliance in that it is a bundle. In other words, it's a special purpose device. Even
though it runs on industry standard servers, it's designed with this operating system and this
database to do enterprise data warehousing. So, from that perspective, it is appliance like. The
real differentiation is we have also built into the product all the capabilities that you would
need to have for an enterprise data warehouse, where you might need to tune the database, create
indexes,
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materialize views, aggregations, etc. to deal with the fact that you may have hundreds,
maybe thousands of people querying the system with very complex queries. You don't do that with a
simple appliance approach. So, we have a capability to start as an appliance and move up the
spectrum to be a full-blown enterprise data warehouse. How is the HP Neoview business intelligence
data warehouse priced?The initial configuration of a 16-processor machine with about four terabytes of storage, would be about $645,000, list price. Does HP have designs on developing front-end business intelligence software?
[No.] We like to give customers choice. So, we have certified and in many cases are working with other vendors to optimize their products for the Neoview platform. We've entered into partnerships with all the major players in the BI/data warehousing space. We want to be the Switzerland of the data warehousing world. The official HP Neoview announcement happened today, but we've learned that you initially released this product last fall. Why the "stealth" release?
All we did in October [2006] was put some information out on the Website and that was really just for us to begin to seek out some early customers, which we've secured since then. It was a unique way to pre-broadcast the fact that we were getting into the BI space.
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And, I hear the company is using HP Neoview
internally?
What we're doing in HP is decommissioning over 762 individual data marts and moving onto a very
large multi-hundred terabyte Neoview system. It's going to be a true enterprise data warehouse that
will have the more traditional information about customers, sales, products and supply chain -- but
also will have financials, human resource information, etc. We think it will be one of the only --
and we could even argue, the only true -- enterprise data warehouse ever built, certainly for a
company that's $100 billion in size. Can you give us some insight into HP's roadmap and strategy
for future business intelligence data warehouse products?
It's a big investment for us. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being put into this because we
think it's a major growth initiative at HP. And so you'll see Neoview evolve over time. We're going
to continue to evolve the hardware platform to take advantage of the latest technologies and
industry standards. You'll see changes in the hardware configuration to more industry-standard and
low cost hardware server and storage products. From a software aspect, we'll continue to mature the
database, so a lot of performance and scalability refinements will take place over time.
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