HP and Wal-Mart Partnership

The HP company announced today that it will soon start work together with the retailer Wal-Mart to build a data warehousing platform that should process the complex business data retrieved across Wal-Mart's 4000 American stores. The platform selected by Wal-Mart is the HP's Neowin data storage and analysis platform. Wal-Mart has previous experience in large data warehousing operations and at the same time it is one of the long standing HP customers. Nancy Stewart who is the Wal-Mart chief technology officer stated and was cited by a HP press release that "the HP partnership is part of a continued effort to drive innovation into every facet of Wal-Mart's business and IT operations".

HP's Neowin platform was launched officially in April and it is the "flagship enterprise data warehousing platform that integrates hardware, software and services" in order to provide a high performance and availability medium that corporate customers like Wal-Mart need. According to HP, the Neowin platform for data warehousing and analysis was chosen because of its range of capabilities that include lower cost, risk mitigating, drive revenue, massive scaling in storage capacity and industry standard compliant hardware make up.

"The HP Neoview platform is an enterprise data warehouse that enables businesses to confidently capitalize on their information at a dramatically lower cost.It provides the dependability, scale, functionality and availability required by high-end data warehouse systems, plus delivers these capabilities with appliance-like simplicity and speed. HP's Neoview enterprise data warehouse platform is an integrated offering supported by HP. Backed by the world's largest technology vendor with the broadest spectrum of technologies and partners, HP Neoview is a platform you can trust."

"At Wal-Mart, we never underestimate the importance of investing in innovative solutions that will improve our ability to understand and anticipate our customers' needs," said Jim Scantlin, director of Enterprise Information Management at Wal-Mart, cited in the same press release. "Our experience with HP Neoview has proven that we made the right decision to partner with HP for our next-generation business intelligence needs".

"The Neoview platform provides customers with the industry's most reliable, scalable and accessible choice for capitalizing on information and optimizing business outcomes," said Ben Barnes, vice president and general manager, Business Intelligence, Software, HP. "Partnering with Wal-Mart to quickly achieve tangible, significant results has been a gratifying experience, and reinforces that Neoview is an unparalleled enterprise-class data warehousing solution".