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Two of the three Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Awards for 2008 were awarded to HP
Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP) Member companies. Protégésoft won
the award for Enterprise Business Application achievement and S7 Software Solutions was recognized for
Entrepreneurial Innovation. A third award went to the University of Houston’s bioinformatics
research team for Humanitarian Impact. The Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Awards program
recognizes innovation and achievement using Intel® Itanium® processor technology to solve
complex humanitarian, business and entrepreneurial challenges.
The Enterprise Business Application category awards the creative use of applications that use
the benefits of the Intel Itanium architecture to produce either hard business results (such as
cost savings and ROI) or soft business impact (including customer satisfaction and new product
development). Winner Protégésoft replaced outdated and cumbersome legacy systems
with HP Integrity to take advantage of features in their new Financial Portfolio Builder (FPB).
FPB is a comprehensive financial investment system that runs on four-way HP Integrity servers
running Microsoft Windows Server 2003. FPB supports the entire spectrum of portfolio management.
It includes account setup and maintenance, investment allocation, monitoring and dynamic
rebalancing, reporting and more -- all on a single unified platform. Using this tool, clients of
investment banks achieved annualized portfolio returns of more than 22 percent with an efficiency
of almost 30,000 times faster than the conventional method.
Protégésoft has been an HP DSPP partner in the Asia/Pacific and Japan region for
4 years. "Our 'love affair' with HP started when were referred by another DSPP partner to
develop a compute intensive application which current industry standard servers were unable to
solve," said Kumaran Pillai, CEO of Protégésoft. "As a start up, we were
fortunate to have such a good R&D partner to provide us with high-end servers, benchmark/
testing platforms and marketing support," said Pillai.
Protégésoft has now established presence in India and Malaysia and been working
closely with the HP teams in Singapore and STSD in India. The company has been a HP Asia Pacific
Japan Elite ISV for the past 2 years where the companies collaborate on regional sales and
marketing activities. In his congratulatory message, Freddy Tan, Vice President and General
Manager, Commercial Accounts, Solution Partners and Alliances, Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific Japan,
said "We are very happy to see our Elite ISV partner, Protégésoft, winning the
innovation contest by selecting HP Integrity Servers on Itanium®-based platforms as their
preferred developmental platform. We have been supporting Protégésoft in its
development, sales and marketing efforts in the Asia Pacific region. We are proud to be able to
support Protégésoft's efforts to harness the scalability, robustness, and efficiency
of HP Integrity servers to achieve the quantum leap in performance of their application to in the
financial services industry."
The winner of Entrepreneurial Innovation category, S7 Software Solutions, was recognized for
their unique work porting more than 2 million lines of software code onto the Intel Itanium
architecture for a Fortune 100 company's transaction system, which supported financial institution
processing, mortgage loan processing and other service products. Faster response time, higher
availability and flexible scalability made the Itanium-based platform the perfect fit for their
migration challenge. The company's solution ran on HP-UX 11i and Linux RHEL 4 on a Dual Core
Intel Itanium processor. Through the India DSPP alliance team, the partner has been involved with
the Integrity Porting workshops and also participated in the certification program for their
Integrity migration services.
In testimony to the strength of the Itanium and the partnership, Kumar Rangarajan, Director of
Engineering, S7 Software Solutions, said "We have selected to work with HP because of their
platform's superior strength and capability and the support they provide to their customers and
partners. We have been providing our porting and migration services to many multinational
companies across the globe, especially in the US, India and Western Europe. This win demonstrates
S7's capability in harnessing the core value of the existing legacy code and adapting it to the
latest technology innovations offered by the new architectures, such as Itanium, ensuring the
capabilities of the new architecture/technology is fully exploited."
"With our in depth knowledge of HPUX and various platforms from other vendors, we are well
positioned to provide services to HP and their customers by providing our migration expertise to
HP-UX," Mr. Kumar added. The company is in the Porting and Migration business, and they have
worked on a lot of cross-platform migration (UNIX to Linux, other UNIX to HP-UX, Solaris, SCO, AIX
and SGI, etc), support and maintenance.
"These wins demonstrate the strength of the Integrity platform and the importance of our
continued support and commitment to partners in the region," said Freddy Tan, Vice President
and General Manager, Commercial Accounts, Solution Partners and Alliances, Hewlett-Packard Asia
Pacific Japan. "It also demonstrates the continued commitment of regional partners to
innovation and we are happy to work with them in their endeavour to provide better business
outcomes for our customers."
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