1. © 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice HP Integrity systems Helping you achieve your IT infrastructure imperatives Jim Agnew HP Enterprise Storage & Servers

2. 2 Why HP Integrity for your BI platform Best price-performance ratio in the industry, offering high scalability and reliability features Blades through rx6600 for dedicated BI application servers rx7640 through HP Superdomes for dedicated BI application servers or partitionable BI computing platforms rx7640 8p/16c rx8640 16p/32c rx6600 4p/8c rx3600 2p/4c BL60p Integrity blade Superdome 64p/128c HP Integrity Servers The broadest line of Dual-Core Itanium® 2 based systems- the platform that delivers more

3. 3 IT challenges in business intelligence Addressing operational data errors, rapid growth, and technology change −Demands performance Increasing profitability and improving operational efficiency −Demands allocation and efficient utilization of resources −IT cost drivers; administrative, licensing, data center costs Support for 24*7 access, business and often mission- critical decision-making −Demands high availability Maximizing data collection of large data sets and data mining −Demands scalability

4. 4 IT imperatives drive requirements for HP Integrity systems SECURED AVAILABILITY Consolidate and simplify to free up resources Meet the high service level expectations of our customers FLEXIBLE CAPACITY Bring our high value projects up and online quicker SIMPLIFIED MANAGEMENT Better return on IT with HP Integrity systems

5. 5 HP Integrity systems: Helping you achieve your IT imperatives Better return on IT with HP Integrity systems FLEXIBLE CAPACITY Most integrated virtualization Architected for balanced performance Built-in investment protection SECURED AVAILABILITY Availability from the ground up Continuous protection SIMPLIFIED MANAGEMENT Unified infrastructure management Comprehensive facilities solutions Best practice solutions

6. 6 Financial services, U.S. Leading credit card provider with managed assets of $700 million and 2,400 employees The HP difference Trusted relationship with HP Strong partnership between HP and customer’s VAR Complete ecosystem for business intelligence HP Integrity server performance, scalability, reliability ChallengeSolutionResult Build and sustain profitable portfolio of credit card accounts  Help people reestablish credit and offer them attractive products and services  Increase performance, availability and scalability of data warehouse  Give decision makers better performance, more sophisticated tools  Support 8% annual business growth rate  Upgrade from HP ProLiant x86 to HP Integrity Server rx8620 (16-way) running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (64-bit) for mission-critical business intelligence  HP Integrity Server rx4640 (4- way) running SAS knowledge base  Proactive 24 hour support  HP Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) expansion  30-100+% performance improvement  Queries that took 22 hours now take 45 minutes  Data mining enables company to pinpoint most profitable accounts  Start based on current needs and scale easily to meet rapid business growth  Solid reliability, availability PREMIER Bankcard

7. 7 “Thanks to HP, Microsoft, SAS and Intel, we now have an enterprise-class business intelligence solution to support continued business expansion.” Dave Geiver, VP of Technology PREMIER Bankcard

8. 8 Benchmarked performance leadership with HP Integrity servers and Windows! OLTP Database #1 and #2 4p/8c Windows TPC-C with rx6600 2 and rx4640 3 and dual core Itanium2! #1 and #2 4p/8c Windows TPC-C with rx6600 2 and rx4640 3 and dual core Itanium2! #1 Itanium-2 based 16p TPC-C with rx8620-32 4 #1 Windows TPC-C¹ with Integrity Superdome at 1.2M+ tpmC! Enterprise Resource Planning and Supply Chain Management A leading 4-way 64-bit Windows SAP 2-tier SD with rx4640-8 5 #1 4-way 64-bit Windows SAP 3-tier SD with rx4640-8 5 #1 Windows SAP 2-Tier SD performance with Integrity Superdome 5 #1 Windows SAP 2-Tier SD performance with Integrity Superdome 5 #1 Windows SAP 3-tier SD with Integrity Superdome 5 A competitive 16-way Integrity Superdome 2-tier SAP SD 5 Business Intelligence and Data Analytics/OLAP #1 16p/32c Itanium 2-based 1TB TPC-H with rx8640 6 and dual core Itanium 2 #1 16p/32c Itanium 2-based 1TB TPC-H with rx8640 6 and dual core Itanium 2 #1 32p Itanium 2-based Windows 3TB TPC-H Integrity Superdome 7 Customer Relationship Management #1 4p Windows Siebel 7.7 PSPP with rx4640-8 8 #1 8p Windows Siebel 7.7 PSPP with rx8620-32 8 #1 16p Windows Siebel 7.7 PSPP with rx8620-32 8 Java Application Server A leading SPECjAppServer2002 dual-node category (2 x rx4640-8) 9 5 For full details on SAP benchmarks, see www.sap.com/benchmark.www.sap.com/benchmark 6 HP rx8640 with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (SP1), 33,488 QphH @ $27.00/QphH, available October 1, 2006. See www.tpc.org.www.tpc.org 7 HP Superdome with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (SP1), 30,956 QphH @ 76.82 $/QphH, available May 5, 2006. See www.tpc.org.www.tpc.org 8 See full details on results @ www.siebel.com.www.siebel.com. 9 For full details on results @ www.spec.org9www.spec.org9 All results and comparisons as of 07/18/2006 1 HP Superdome with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (SP1), 1,231,433 tpmC @ $4.82/tpmC, available June 5, 2006. See www.tpc.org.www.tpc.org 2 HP rx6600 with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (SP1), 344,928 tpmC @ $2.24/tpmC, available December 1, 2006. See www.tpc.org.www.tpc.org 3 HP rx4640 with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (SP1), 290,644 tpmC @ $2.71/tpmC, available September 1, 2006. See www.tpc.org.www.tpc.org 4 HP rx8620-32, 332,266 tpmC @ $4.48/tpmC, available now. See www.tpc.org for details.www.tpc.org New

9. 9 Begin today Planning to run a BI proof of concept for your business? Unsure of the best technology platform to use? Struggling with the capital costs involved for a p-o-c? Let HP & Microsoft help you to move forward with a 90 day free trial of a HP Integrity/SQL BI platform. jim.agnew@hp.com

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