When the top companies in IT come together; good things happen. In a results-oriented business world, Itanium-based solutions from hardware and software vendors are changing the ways successful businesses are staying ahead of the game.

Intel + Microsoft Corporation + Oracle + Unisys Unisys Standardizes Applications in a Global Oracle ERP Environment Unisys Oracle ERP environment supports worldwide operations using a 24-processor Unisys ES7000/420 server employing Intel® Itanium® 2 processors running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition. As a result, the company has significantly lowered its total cost of ownership, improved user response times, and maintained high availability.

Hewlett-Packard + Intel + Microsoft Corporation Bovespa Migrates from Mainframe to an HP-Intel-Microsoft Platform to Gain Agility, Reduce Costs, and Ensure Market Evolution The successful implementation of the Brazilian Payment System (SPB) on an HP-Intel-Microsoft Platform in April 2002 helped Bovespa make the decision to migrate all of its business applications - previously running on mainframes - to a new IT environment.

Hewlett-Packard + Intel + MicroFocus K.K. + Oracle Cutting TCO in Half UK pensions provider Scottish Life, part of the Royal London Group, relied on systems running ten million lines of code and managing nearly a billion data records. Launched in 1993, the previous system was struggling to maintain service levels. Internal staff & external users experienced a growing number of interruptions as their on-line service requests competed against transaction and background batch processing. Overnight batch jobs frequently ran longer than twelve hours forcing scheduled and ad hoc business processing to be postponed until the weekend.

Hewlett-Packard + Intel + Oracle Modernizing Banking Infrastructure Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Award honorable mention Infosys uses Itanium 2-based systems to enhance their core banking abilities.

Hewlett-Packard + Intel + SAP Accelerating Financial Reporting in Healthcare Kindred Healthcare is a health care provider that deploys Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to support the Information Systems (I/S) needs of hundreds of facilities countrywide. For financial software applications, Kindred uses SAP R/3 Financials and Human Capital Management. Kindred's I/S department supports over 1,000 software applications, including an integrated financial, HR and payroll system and business intelligence data warehouse. Their top priority is that all data, from financial processing to clinical reports, is available online from anywhere in the enterprise.