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The Real Story about Business Intelligence
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supporting imageAugust 2006. Business intelligence (BI) ranks first among  the top 10 priorities for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) in 2006, according to a Gartner survey of 1,400 CIOs.1  As BI investments continue to grow, it’s no surprise that HP is the leading provider of BI infrastructure and solutions.

Consider the following facts.

 

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Fact 1: Industry analysts (as specified below) report that HP is the #1 provider of BI infrastructure. 

  • According to IDC, HP ranks #1 for BI server deployments on UNIX, Windows and Linux combined – strategic operating systems for the BI market.2
  • The 2005 Winter Corp.’s TopTenTM Program survey shows 19 of the 40 world’s largest data warehouses run on HP across UNIX, Windows, and Linux operating systems.3  HP has twice as many TopTenTM award winning customers as any other server vendor.4  
  • Oracle, HP’s strategic partner in BI solutions, is the dominant database vendor for BI.5  Oracle is the only database provider appearing in the leading position in TopTenTM lists on UNIX, Windows, and Linux.4  With combined market presence and customer tools, such as proven reference configurations for data warehousing, they form an industry leading partnership for BI.6

Fact 2: A leading analyst firm survey reports that HP tops the list for CIO-planned server spending.

Twice a year, Merrill Lynch polls 100 CIOs in the United States and Europe on IT spending and server buying patterns. Those polled said they expect, on average, that 19 percent of their server budget would be spent on HP-UX servers, 9 percent on Linux servers, and 55 percent on Windows servers, while only 6 percent would be spent on AIX servers and 11 percent on Solaris servers. The same CIOs said that they expect to boost their spending on HP servers in all of the key segments including Windows, Linux, and HP-UX.7

Fact 3: IDC ranks HP as #1 in BI server revenue across Unix, Windows, and Linux platforms combined.[8]

HP leads with $2.3 billion in BI server revenue across UNIX, Windows and Linux platforms combined.8  According to the Merrill Lynch poll cited above, CIOs expect their BI software spending to grow by 4.8 percent in 2006.

Fact 4: According to DM Review’s 2005 reader survey, HP servers rated best for BI applications.[9]

  • DM Review readers rated HP best in the 2005 Readership Award server category based on quality and level of customer satisfaction.
  • Reader feedback also qualified HP for a DM Review Readership Merit Award for delivering quality products and services.

Fact 5: HP server solutions deliver validated BI performance.

  • HP solutions deliver the #1 result, based on performance in the 100 GB,  1000GB and 3000GB TPC-H benchmarks.  HP servers rank among the top three in all of the TPC-H data base sizes.10 
  • Running on HP Integrity servers, Hyperion’s BI platform exceeded all recent benchmarks from BI vendors in performance and scalability by 39% on Windows and 189% on HP-UX, while delivering an 8x hardware price for performance on Windows and an 18x hardware price/performance on HP-UX.11

Fact 6: Per IDC, HP provides “a broad spectrum of server and storage product offerings to its customers, so that it meets requirements for a wide variety of business intelligence needs within the marketplace.”[12]

  • IDC reports, “Mission-critical workloads, such as business intelligence, require very high availability. HP has long been a leader in high availability through their world class server clustering offerings.”13
  • IDC continues, “when scalability matters, HP’s line of Integrity and HP-9000 servers has been specifically designed to take on the most scalable BI workloads. Because many BI workloads are highly dynamic, HP offers a variety of utility pricing programs, such as Pay per Use and Temporary Instant Capacity, to meet the scalability challenges faced by many customers.”14
  • HP BI solutions are delivered on multiple platforms and operating systems, all managed by the HP Systems Insight Manager, the industry’s only unified server and storage management tool.15
  • HP BI solutions take advantage of the HP Virtual Server Environment on HP Integrity with its integrated set of partitioning, workload management, availability, and capacity-on-demand tools. “HP has had strong capabilities in this area essentially forever.  That history has resulted in the highly-capable VSE suite.”16
  • “Preconfiguring and pretesting solutions enable HP and its partners to offer standard products for standardized needs – a proposition valued by organizations that are not looking to reinvent the wheel when it comes to BI solutions.”17

For more information on HP Business Intelligence solutions, broad technology  portfolio, and industry partnerships,  go to www.hp.com/go/bi.


1 Gartner CIO Survey, January 23, 2006, http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_143678_11.html
2  IDC Special Study, "Server Workloads Forecast and Analysis Study, 2005-2010," #06C4941, August 2006. ("2005 WW Server Customer Revenue ($USM) for Decision Support Workloads across UNIX, Linux, and Windows.")
3  2005 Winter TopTen Survey, by database size.
4  2005 TopTen Program Summary: Select Findings from the TopTen Program, Winter Corp., 2006, http://www.wintercorp.com/
5  IDC Special Study, "Server Workloads Forecast and Analysis Study, 2005 - 2010," #06C4941, August 2006.
6  http://www.oracle.com/features/hp/data-warehousing.html 
7  The Four Hundred Newsletter, Vol.15, No. 23, itjungle.com, June 5, 2006, http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh060506-story03.html.
8  IDC Special Study, "Server Workloads Forecast and Analysis Study, 2005-2010," #06C4941, August 2006. ("2005 WW Server Customer Revenue ($USM) for Decision Support Workloads across UNIX, Linux, and Windows.")
9  2005 Readership Award Winners, DM Review Magazine, December 2005.
10  Results as of 10/27/06, reference http://www.tpc.org/
# 1 TPC-H performance results for 100GB, 1000GB and 3000GB
Database Size QphH Price/QphH System Availability Database Operating System
HP ProLiant DL585 G2
 100 GB
 19,323
 10.67 US$
 11/22/06
 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 x64 Enterprise Edt. SP1
 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition SP1
HP Integrity Superdome (single system)
 1000 GB
 68,100
 59.00 US $
01/18/06
 Oracle Database 10g R2 Enterprise Edt w/Partitioning
 HP UX 11.i V2 64 bit
HP BladeSystem ProLiant BL25p cluster
3000 GB
 110,576
 37.80 US $
 06/08/06
 Oracle Database 10g R2 Enterprise Edt w/Partitioning
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ES

TPC-H is a trademark of the Transaction Performance Processing Council
11  BI Scalability, Performance and Total Cost of Ownership, White Paper, Hyperion Solutions Corporation, April 2006. 
12  IDC White Paper sponsored by HP, "HP: Delivering Value in Business Intelligence," #05C4359, February 2005
13  IDC White Paper sponsored by HP, "HP: Delivering Value in Business Intelligence," #05C4359, February 2005
14  IDC White Paper sponsored by HP, "HP: Delivering Value in Business Intelligence," #05C4359, February 2005
15  HP Systems Insight Manager: One Console to Rule Them All, Quick Note, Illuminata, Inc., April 22, 2005, http://www.illuminata.com/.
16  HP’s VSE Shows the Practical Side of Server Virtualization, Research Note, Illuminata, Inc., April 27, 2006, http://www.illuminata.com/.
17  See footnote 12.
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