PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 1, 2007 – The Itanium® Solutions Alliance today announced the launch of the Itanium® Solutions Guide (www.itaniumsolutions.com), an online resource providing IT professionals and enterprise business end users with data on how Itanium®-based computing can solve their business problems. The Solutions Guide’s goal is to foster business innovation by offering reliable and trusted information in an easy-to-use format. With more than 12,000 Itanium-based applications and numerous hardware vendor systems available in the market, the Itanium Solutions Guide efficiently categorizes and provides content so that busy IT and business professionals can quickly find, listen to, read and download the most relevant information to suit their needs.

The Itanium Solutions Guide is launching with an emphasis on Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). BI and ERP deployments rely on mission-critical databases, and are at the core of every thriving enterprise business. The Solutions Guide will show how Itanium-based solutions allow companies to consolidate key actionable data and quickly and accurately deploy resources. The Solutions Guide will also deliver numerous examples of how deployments of Itanium-based BI and ERP solutions have provided companies with the competitive advantage needed to succeed in the marketplace, while at the same time giving them a lower total cost of ownership and greater return on their investment than proprietary mid-range and mainframe solutions.

“The Itanium Solutions Guide is a natural evolution of our goal to offer concise and appropriate mission-critical computing information to the marketplace” said Robin Drummond, president of the Itanium Solutions Alliance. “Users can access relevant data and resources for their important computing needs and can contact Alliance members directly to get specific information about their Itanium-based solutions.”

In the Itanium Solutions Guide website, visitors experience information relevant to core business computing practices through traditional and new media such as: case studies, white papers, podcasts, videos, flash animations and blogs. The site also includes a Q&A section where Alliance members offer answers to user-submitted questions. The Alliance plans to expand the site on a quarterly basis by introducing new business solutions, vertical markets and topical issues.

The launch of the Solutions Guide continues the momentum generated by recent Alliance and Itanium milestones, including significant increases in Alliance membership, expansion of supporting applications and the growth of Itanium-based system sales worldwide.

About The Itanium Solutions Alliance
The Itanium Solutions Alliance was formed by leading enterprise and technical solutions providers to work together towards a common objective of transitioning the world to open, industry-standard solutions based on Intel Itanium architecture. Together with leading enterprise software and hardware providers, the Alliance is dedicated to accelerating the adoption and ongoing development of Itanium-based solutions. Its membership comprises some of the most influential companies in the computing industry. More information about the Itanium Solutions Alliance, membership, industry resources and developer programs can be found at www.itaniumsolutionsalliance.org.

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