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Introducing HP & Microsoft Solutions for
the People-Ready Business
Microsoft and HP expand alliance with
comprehensive offerings for enterprise
customers.
REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 13, 2006 —
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) and HP
(NYSE “HPQ,” Nasdaq “HPQ”) today
announced a three-year agreement to
deliver an expanded portfolio of
solutions for enterprise customers
around the world. HP is the first
premier global partner to deliver
comprehensive solutions for the
People-Ready Business, Microsoft’s
vision for how people, armed with the
right software, are the key to driving
business success.
“With the recent announcement of the
largest product launch to business
customers in our company’s history with
Windows Vista™ and the 2007 Microsoft®
Office system, we are bringing to market
more than 30 new products and services
in the next year that will further
enable People-Ready Businesses,” said
Kevin Turner, chief operating officer at
Microsoft. “Through our collaboration
with HP, our more than 20,000 joint
customers will have access to an
expanded set of solutions and services
to tackle their most pressing business
problems.”
Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin
Turner (L) and Ann Livermore, executive
vice president of HP’s Technology
Solutions Group, announce a three-year
agreement between their two companies to
deliver hardware, software and services
for business customers. Redmond, Wash.,
Dec. 13, 2006.
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“Extending our strategic alliance with
Microsoft further strengthens HP’s
enterprise strategy, which is focused on
empowering CIOs to align IT with
business by delivering more
cost-effective, scalable, secure ways of
enhancing employee productivity,” said
Ann Livermore, executive vice president
of the Technology Solutions Group at HP.
“HP itself is a great example of the
power of Solutions for the People-Ready
Business, as we are using many of the
technologies in the portfolio to empower
our people to conduct business at any
time, from anywhere.”
To help enterprise customers worldwide
realize greater value from their
existing IT assets, capitalize on
next-generation technologies, and
achieve a more agile, adaptive
enterprise, the new HP & Microsoft
Solutions for the People-Ready Business
portfolio will focus on five high-growth
areas of IT investment: messaging and
unified communications; collaboration
and content management; business
intelligence; business process
integration; and core infrastructure.
John Gantz, chief research officer with
IDC, said the agreement is significant
for customers. “This agreement means
that the two companies and their
combined ecosystems have an opportunity
to bring complete solutions to their
customers in these critical areas,” he
said. “Just the software markets alone
in business intelligence, collaboration,
content management and infrastructure
software running on Windows® will be a
$49 billion market in 2007. Add in
communications, hardware, and services,
it is easily over $100 billion.”
Building on a more than 20-year
alliance, Microsoft and HP plan to
invest at least $300 million over three
years to cover collaborative efforts in
solution development, testing,
validation, deployment, and joint sales
and marketing. Additional components of
this initiative include these:
Expansion of a joint solutions portfolio
to include new and updated offerings
that enable customers to capitalize on
the shift toward the next-generation
data center trend, in the following
high-growth solution areas:
Messaging & Unified Communications
Collaboration & Content Management
Business Intelligence (BI)
Business Process Integration
Microsoft Core Infrastructure
Creation of a new, dedicated Microsoft
Solutions Practice chartered with the
ongoing design, development and launch
of Microsoft-specific offerings. HP will
ensure that over 22,000 highly skilled
professionals at the company are
prepared to deliver on the promise of
the People-Ready Business, and the
number will grow to 30,000 or more
Microsoft-skilled professionals over the
next three years.
Increased joint development in
additional solutions to help ensure that
all solution components provide
customers with the greatest return on
investment.
Establishment of a Solutions for a
People-Ready Business Training Program
that will offer a curriculum that covers
both technical and sales training in all
the new solution focus areas and which
will result in more than 3,000 newly
Microsoft-trained consultants at HP.
Microsoft and HP share more than 20,000
joint customers worldwide today, many of
which have already begun deploying
products in the Solutions for the
People-Ready Business Portfolio.
Microsoft recognizes HP Services as
Worldwide Prime Integrator for
Microsoft’s next-generation products and
technologies, which can deliver one of
the broadest IT portfolios to customers
around the world.
“HP consultants provided a great deal of
education to ensure that our people
quickly became familiar and well-versed
in Exchange administration,” said Brian
Shield, executive vice president and
chief information officer at The Weather
Channel. “Everything was exceptionally
well-aligned as we implemented our HP &
Microsoft Solutions for the People-Ready
Business, like ‘the perfect storm’ with
the many different elements coming
together to produce a successful
outcome. We were extremely pleased with
the HP team consultants’ high level of
commitment to success and their ability
to guide a smooth implementation.”
More information about the HP &
Microsoft Solutions for the People-Ready
Business can be found at http://www.hp.com/microsoft.
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to
consumers, businesses and institutions
globally. The company’s offerings span
IT infrastructure, global services,
business and home computing, and imaging
and printing. For the four fiscal
quarters ended October 31, 2006, HP
revenue totaled $91.7 billion. More
information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ)
is available at www.hp.com.
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About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq
“MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that
help people and businesses realize their
full potential.
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