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Deploying Integrated Business Solutions
Section 3.
Best-in-Class Industry Applications
Superior Application Development Environment
[Illustration Title: Deploying Integrated Business Solutions]
[Illustration Caption: The HP Business Systems provide a leading
technology foundation for implementing a successful IT strategy. Yet it
takes the right applications to attain the full payoff of your computing
environment.]
Your business applications are valuable strategic assets. Because HP
understands the critical nature of building and deploying these
applications, we offer leading business solutions on our systems, a
superior development environment for productive in-house application
design, and best in class data management solutions and performance.
Best-in-Class Industry Applications
No single computer company working alone could ever hope to create all
the solutions for all markets. To give you a wide array of choices for
business solutions, HP has formed strategic alliances with the industry-
leading independent software suppliers, systems integrators, and
resellers in the industry. Our partners have already recognized the
growing demand for Open Systems applications on the UNIX operating
system. And we're proud that most software leaders moving to UNIX have
chosen HP as their first port.
Currently, we have over 2000 such relationships providing more than 5000
application packages, including applications for client/server
environments. You also have access to over 3000 applications for the
PICK environment. And the list keeps growing--rapidly.
For example, in the accounting application marketplace, HP has
partnerships with the top six leading application vendors: Computer
Associates, Dun & Bradstreet Software, Lawson, Oracle, Ross Systems, and
SAP. Also, 5 out of the 10 industry-leading human resource applications
run on our platforms. These examples demonstrate how HP, working closely
with the industry leaders, ensures that their customers have access to
best-in-class commercial solutions. (Refer to pages 8-9 for a partial
list of key HP Channel Partners and application categories.)
The strength of HP's value-added business program and market leadership
have made us the most attractive system VAR platform in the industry for
over five years. As a result, HP is adding new ports of applications for
the HP 9000 Series 800 platform at the rate of over 50 per month.
No other UNIX systems provider has as many application solutions for
commercial users as HP. Only Hewlett-Packard gives users the best choice
in solutions and applications.
Mainframe solutions
Many market-leading solutions, previously available only on proprietary
IBM mainframes or DEC systems, can now be found on HP 9000 Series 800
Open Systems. So whether you want to downsize or decentralize your
manufacturing, accounting, or other departments to a Series 800 system,
you can be confident you'll find the highly recognized, high-quality
solutions you need.
The catalyst for industry-leading applications moving to the HP 9000
platform is our industry leading value-added program for HP Channel
Partners.
Availability of robust foundation software
Key software partnerships in the area of CASE, system management, and
networking enhance Series 800 capabilities to value-added businesses and
end users alike. And as the market for client/server applications grows,
aggressive programs targeted at Channel Partners will enable them to
take advantage of HP's client/server technologies.
[Quote]
"In looking for a strategic Open Systems vendor to form the broadest
business relationship we have ever entered, HP was the natural choice.
HP is a proven market leader in delivering commercial Open Systems based
on a UNIX system."
--Charles B. Wang, Chairman and CEO, Computer Associates
Superior Application Development Environment
Whether your environment is traditional host/terminal or client/server,
HP offers a range of choices to optimize productivity for commercial
application development. HP's offering includes the industry's top
databases, languages and tools, and a set of best-in-class Computer
Aided Software Engineering (CASE) solutions.
Close Working Relationships with Top-Tier RDBMS Suppliers
HP's close marketing and engineering relationships with top-tier RDBMS
suppliers give you faster availability and higher performing RDBMS
releases on the HP 9000 Series 800 platform. These relationships have
proved mutually beneficial and have resulted in optimally tuned
databases for PA-RISC and HP-UX.
HP supports every leading Open Systems database product in the industry,
including:
o ADABAS o Interbase
o ALLBASE/SQL o Oracle
o Cognos o Progress
o Focus o Starbase
o Informix o Sybase
o Ingres o Unify
Best-in-Class Application Development Tools
Tools for building new applications and maintaining existing ones play a
crucial role in diminishing a backlog of application projects. For
development, HP focuses on helping you manage the productivity and
predictability of the software development lifecycle. HP offers a set of
well-known, best-in-class commercial CASE tools categorized by
development activity (see figure 3.1).
[Illustration Title: Leading Commercial CASE Solutions]
[Illustration Caption: Figure 3.1 HP's comprehensive commercial CASE
offering positions HP 9000 Business Servers at the forefront of the
commercial UNIX marketplace.]
Tools and shells
Tools and shells are used for porting code from other platforms (Ex.
from RPG to C), writing basic code, or for simply running existing code.
This environment includes languages and 4GLs. HP's languages offer a
high level of standards-compliance and code optimization for efficient
run-time performance on our PA-RISC architecture.
The HP 9000 Series 800 supports all major languages including:
o (Micro Focus) COBOL/HP-UX based on MicroFocus COBOL/2
o C/ANSI C
o C++/HP-UX
o HP Pascal/HP-UX
o FORTRAN 77/HP-UX
Industry-leading 4GLs
HP supports 4GL tool environments from Cognos, Focus, Informix, Ingres,
Oracle, Progress, Sybase, Unify, and various other independent tools
vendors.
Object-oriented tools
HP offers several alternatives for customers moving to an object-
oriented paradigm. In addition to HP's C++ object-oriented language, we
support NeXTSTEP from NeXT, designed to increase programmers'
productivity. HP and NeXT are providing an open client/server solution
for object-oriented enterprisewide computing.
What's more, HP is the only major vendor with a commercial, object-
oriented database on the market today. OpenODB is an open object-
oriented database for large, multi-user environments that can integrate
any data stored anywhere on the network.
Open integration environment: HP SoftBench
HP SoftBench is a windows-based tool integration framework, which
creates a unifying environment for developing applications in C, C++, or
COBOL. This product, combined with SoftBench services and third-party
solutions, addresses the needs of commercial UNIX developers. SoftBench
has been endorsed throughout the industry by leading CASE vendors, such
as Texas Instruments, KnowledgeWare, and CGI. Moreover, IBM has licensed
this technology as its commercial development environment. Consequently,
these endorsements have reinforced SoftBench as the de facto industry
standard for application development frameworks.
HP SoftBench integrates a variety of existing development software tools
without modification. These tools assist in the construction, test, and
maintenance phases of the software life cycle, while the integration
platform provides the communication framework for ISV tools covering
other phases of the cycle. HP SoftBench allows a programmer to pick and
choose from among a broad range of solutions incorporating the latest
software development technology.
Integrated CASE
HP supports a fully-integrated CASE environment for commercial
development through leading products on the market from Andersen
Consulting, KnowledgeWare, Texas Instruments, CGI Systems, and Softlab.
These solutions automate the entire application lifecycle, linking tools
and data across the life-cycle stages.
Andersen Consulting
Andersen Consulting has selected HP as the first UNIX target platform
for their integrated-CASE product, FOUNDATION for Cooperative
Processing. This is the first full life-cycle CASE that can be used to
develop and generate complete client/server applications.
KnowledgeWare
ADW from KnowledgeWare is one of the largest installed systems for
commercial application development. ADW now supports the deployment of
new or existing applications on HP 9000 Series 800 Business Servers. ADW
Workbench provides for planning, analyst, design, and construction.
Texas Instruments
IEF, from Texas Instruments, is one of the leading integrated CASE (I-
CASE) software solutions available today. Developers can use an HP 9000
Series 700 or PCs for a software planning and design workstation. The HP
9000 Series 800 can be used for the repository, providing a complete HP
development environment. IEF supports C and COBOL code generation and
hooks to Oracle and Ingres RDBMS. Support for other RDBMS transaction
monitors will be available soon.
[Quote]
"Oracle uses the HP 9000 as our UNIX development environment because it
is our best selling multiuser UNIX system and provides the capabilities
our users demand."
--Jerry Baker, Sr. VP, Products Division, Oracle Corporation
CGI Systems, Inc.
CGI Systems, a premier integrated-CASE vendor, allows developers to take
advantage of the Series 800 as a development or target environment.
CGI's product, PACLAN/X, supports the Oracle and Informix RDBMS. CGI's
target platform support is one of the most comprehensive.
Softlab
Softlab, another premier integrated-CASE vendor, offers Maestro II,
which supports Series 800 Business Servers with PC clients. With Maestro
II, the Series 800 can be used as a development and target environment.