Business Challenge

In the past, Business Intelligence (BI) tools were used by only a few executives and applications were limited. Today, companies realize the broad value of business databases in terms of daily tactical moves to complex strategic decisions. Managers need the widest possible distributed access to the most up-to-date data, using the best analytical tools possible.

The Itanium Solutions Advantage

With an Itanium-based solution, companies can control mountains of data and make more informed decisions in record time, and experience:

  • Availability of raw data and the most complex of analyses on demand, faster than ever before
  • Compatibility with the best business applications
  • Expansion capability, so as businesses grow, the BI solution keeps pace

Benefits

With an Itanium-based solution, business users can stop waiting for information -- and spend more time using it.

Itanium-based solution allow for:

  • New ways to strategically use data
  • Modeling of new products and services, using historical data to better predict customer preferences and potential results
  • Discovery of alternatives for allocation of vital resources better serve customers and the bottom line

Alliance Approach

Alliance members help implement BI solutions every step of the way:

  • As planning begins, a broad choice of system providers is available. With a global perspective on anarray of customer challenges, Alliance members bring a powerful range of knowledge and experience to address any need.
  • Once a platform partner is selected, there are additional available system configurations that ensure compatibility with applications -- while offering the most decision-making tools available from any source.
  • Moving forward, Alliance members can help address business needs and ensure the BI solution remains competitive and innovative.

Your ROI

Itanium-based BI solutions pay off in many ways:

• Quicker time to strategic insight, for existing products and services as well as future possibilities
• Increased opportunities for innovation
• The availability of a system that can scale and grow

Employees make more-informed decisions faster. Customers see better service and creative products. And shareholders recognize the results and the wisdom of investing in powerful, expandable, and reliable computational ecosystem. As importantly, a company can realize bigger returns to the bottom line for years to come.

Testimonial

"[With our Itanium® 2 system], we can do our investigative work much more quickly. We can measure and understand key aspects of our business better and faster, and use that knowledge to enable data-driven decision making." -- Melony McGuffin, Group Manager for Pricing Management, Microsoft.

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