HP and SAP Partners to Offer New Services

Hewlett-Packard has announced that it is going to add new grounds to the cooperation with SAP, the largest software enterprise in Europe, the third largest in the world, located in Walldorf, Germany. At present day HP, with headquarters in California, represents the largest information technology corporation providing many countries with printers and personal computers. Besides computing and printing, the corporation is involved into digital imaging, also offering software and services.

The new HP project will offer innovative enterprise solutions and will concern new services with NetWeaver and enterprise service-oriented architecture called Enterprise SOA in short.

The services to be provided by Hewlett-Packard are meant to support customers in upgrading servers, infrastructure, storage and NetWeaver. NetWeaver is the infrastructure software applied for SAP's business applications.

HP has concentrated its attention upon offering services required for the $ 10,000 Discovery System that has been recently launched by SAP. The list of other services comprises estimation, administration and architecture services for R3.

Tim Treat, the manager of at HP Consulting and Integration, has mentioned that the corporation initially considers every detail - R3, the servers, the management and storage to be able to offer its customers the necessary updates. Mr. Treat has also added that the company will work with Intel concerning server upgrades.

After having completed the upgrade project, HP's clients will be able to take the advantage of a variety of services provided by package options relevant to NetWeaver. Mr. Treat has accentuated that the services offered by HP will be blended to give clients an opportunity to enter at any point in the life cycle. The services are to comprise design and performance, application development and management.

According to Tim Treat, adaptive infrastructure represents an innovation to be soon introduced. At the moment customers have at their disposal enough hardware capacity and infrastructure to provide the support for most intensive work periods or quarter-end operations. In the majority of cases the software capacity is not applied in full until facing the strenuous times. Adaptive infrastructure is a way out to allow HP's customers to spend money for what they really need and use.

Besides offering the new services, HP together with IDS Scheer, a software and consulting company, has planned to introduce the service of consulting on business-process. IDS Scheer holds the leading position as the company elaborating Business Process Management solutions used by corporations and public authorities. IDS Scheer has developed ARIS Platform for Process Excellence, a substantial tool package based upon integrated approach that allows to work out strategy, design, insertion and control of business operations.
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