Organizations Speed Business Results With New Appliances From HP and Microsoft

https://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/jan11/01-18HPMSAppliancesPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases

 

There is a great retail story of early adoption in here:

 

The solution enables end users to share data analyses built with Microsoft’s award-winning PowerPivot for Excel 2010 and collaborate with others in SharePoint 2010. It allows IT to centrally audit, monitor and manage solutions created by end users from a single dashboard.

 

Red Wing Shoe Company, a worldwide manufacturer and retailer of premium work shoes and boots, was an early adopter of the HP Business Decision Appliance through GNet, an HP/Microsoft Frontline channel partner.

 

“We were intrigued by the idea that we could implement a turnkey solution that was fully integrated into our environment with minimal effort,” said Mike Cleary, director, IT Architecture and Operations, Red Wing Shoe Company. “Previously, to install all the required software and configure the components would have taken us several days. Now not only our business analysts but the broader user community can use a familiar tool, Microsoft Excel, to create and analyze data in new and unique ways.”