COMPAQ: Compaq helps customers realise the benefits of the real time enterprise;
Compaq Zero Latency Enterprise (ZLE) delivers single, integrated view of business in
real time
Story Filed: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:47 PM EST
FEB 7, 2001, M2 Communications - Compaq today named nine leading independent software vendors (ISVs) as business partners
in the Compaq Zero Latency Enterprise (ZLE) initiative. Compaq is the first to create zero latency technology to meet customer
demand for solutions that enable business to be conducted in real time. Driven by the internet, real time computing requires that
decision-makers have a single, integrated view of the business - and their customers.
The first software partners to be formally recognised as an integral part of the Compaq ZLE architecture are: Actional Corporation;
Acxiom Corporation; Blaze Software, Inc.; Mercator Software; MicroStrategy Inc.; Protagona Worldwide, Inc.; SAS Institute Inc.;
Savant Technologies, Inc.; and Trillium Software. Each ISV partner contributes valuable enabling technology to the base Compaq
ZLE architecture, which forms the framework for market-specific Compaq ZLE solutions.
ZLE Brings Real Time to the Enterprise
ZLE is a transaction-oriented solution providing a single, integrated view of business and customer transactions as they occur, no
matter where in the enterprise, in real time. In a zero latency environment, the flow of internal information is accelerated to the point
where transactions are instantaneously propagated within the enterprise and can be acted upon in real time. Gartner, which
originated the zero latency concept, forecasts that almost every successful business will have some form of ZLE infrastructure.
Compaq is building ZLE solutions today aimed at the highly competitive telecommunications, finance, and retail markets where
immediate insight into customer actions and business transactions offers a compelling business advantage.
Ross Altman, research director, Gartner, said: "Information that's fresh has the most value. In a real time, zero latency enterprise,
information is delivered to the right place at the right time for maximum business value. Companies are going to move to reduced
latency environments, it's just a question of when. The longer one waits, the worse it gets. The sooner an enterprise embraces and
implements the concept of zero latency, the stronger its competitive position is likely to be."
Howard Elias, senior vice president and general manager of Compaq's Business-Critical Server Group, said: "The internet business
model has moved all of us to act and respond to our customers in real time. Compaq ZLE is the transformational technology that
allows a business to truly enable a real time enterprise."
Elias continued, "Integral to delivering ZLE are the strong partnerships with ISVs that provide advanced solutions technology, an
understanding of customers' business needs and real-world experience. We will grow these partnerships and will add new ones to
help build ZLE-enabled solutions across different industries."
'Best-in-Class' ISV Partners are Integral Part of ZLE Solutions
Compaq ZLE deployment is based on a combination of Compaq servers and unique Compaq database and software technologies.
The ZLE architectural framework combines leading enterprise application integration (EAI) technology and a real time Operational
Data Store (ODS). Surrounding these two key architectural components are the partner applications that are enabled to take
advantage of real-time data. It is the work that has been done with these software developers, as providers of end-user applications,
that exposes the benefits of the ZLE architecture to the end user.
Each of the nine ISVs announced today are key contributors to the ZLE architecture and each brings a valuable software technology,
as well as real-world experience in developing an aspect of ZLE-based solutions. Compaq will continue to grow this list as it brings
on board ISVs whose technologies and expertise add value to our customers' ZLE solutions.
ZLE Leverages Compaq's Enterprise Fleet of Servers and Global Services. The Compaq ZLE initiative brings the strengths of its
entire enterprise product line to bear in the development and deployment of a ZLE solution. Today, the ODS hub of the system is
built on the highly scalable Compaq NonStop Himalaya server and NonStop database. Existing customer database, data mining
applications, and clip-on applications are generally hosted on Compaq Tru64UNIX on AlphaServer systems and on Compaq ProLiant
servers running Windows NT.
The Compaq ZLE initiative also leverages the skills and capabilities of Compaq's global services organisation and its partners.
Compaq Global Services provides complete life-cycle services to help organisations rapidly implement, operate, and support
ZLE-based solutions. Integration expertise is in place today for the wide range of ISV applications that are required in ZLE-based
solutions. Business Critical Support services are specifically tailored for ZLE environments to provide the high availability that
customers demand.
Additional information on the Compaq ZLE initiative, technology and demonstrations is available at: www.compaq.com/zle
Notes to Editors:
The ISV partner software can be grouped into three categories within the Compaq ZLE architecture: Core ZLE Services, Docking
Applications and Clip-On Applications.
Core ZLE Services are the central applications used for building a customer's ZLE solution and interfacing to the ODS. These are: a
rules engine; message transformation; workflow management; message router and inserter; ETL (data extraction, transformation,
and loading); data mining and analytics.
* Blaze Software, a Brokat company, provides a real time application of business rules, enabling Compaq's ZLE customers to
manage, execute and maintain personalised e-Business applications.
* Mercator brings powerful e-Business data transformation technology that substantially reduces the time and effort required to
implement and maintain new application interfaces across heterogeneous business environments.
* Savant Technologies provides the ETL technology for managing system performance in one tool by automatically collecting,
analysing, and condensing data into critical information.
* SAS provides industry-leading e-intelligence and data mining technology as well as extensive data warehousing experience and
ETL capabilities that leverage the use of information in any ZLE environment.
Docking Applications enable a customer's existing applications to 'plug-and-play' with ZLE implementations. A docking application
does not require modification and works independently with other cooperating applications through the use of standard application
adapters. Examples of typical docking applications include Siebel, SAP, Oracle, and Peoplesoft.
Actional is announced today as a software partner providing application integration software that is used to connect to these docking
applications.
* Actional provides its patented control broker technology to deliver the unique ability to provide direct real time connections between
applications.
Clip-On Applications are either standalone applications enhanced through tight integration with a core ZLE service or new
applications built by an ISV or by Compaq based on one of the core ZLE services. As announced today, these include:
* Acxiom enables a single view of the customer using AbiliTec Customer Data Integration software to link disparate sources of
information into a single real time view. InfoBase data can augment that view with real time consumer and business information to
better recognise, understand and market to customers.
* Protagona Worldwide provides a full-featured high performance marketing capability for planning, campaign management, workflow
management, and touchpoint integration.
* MicroStrategy offers a flexible and scalable, Web-based business intelligence platform that includes a sophisticated analytical
engine that supports multiple databases and provides access to information via Web, wireless and voice.
* Trillium Software, a division of Harte-Hanks, is an industry leader in data quality software solutions. The Trillium Software System
can be completely integrated for accurate and consistent customer identification and relationship matching.
About Compaq
Compaq Computer Corporation, a Fortune Global 100 company, is the largest supplier of computing systems in the world. Compaq
designs, develops, manufactures and markets hardware, software, solutions and services, including industry-leading enterprise
computing solutions, fault-tolerant business-critical solutions and communications products, commercial desktop and portable
products and consumer PCs.
Compaq products and services are sold in more than 200 countries directly to businesses, through a network of authorised Compaq
marketing partners, and directly to businesses and consumers through Compaq's e-commerce Web site at
compaq.co.uk.
Compaq was established in the UK in 1984 and is headquartered in Richmond, Surrey.
Compaq markets its products and services primarily to customers from the business, home, government, and education sectors.
Customer support and information about Compaq and its products and services are available at compaq.co.uk
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