The platform relies on Compaq ProLiant Servers and Microsoft technology - plus a little ingenuity from the bookseller's IT team. Legal publisher Butterworths established a Web site where subscribers can search three massive databases of legal materials, as well as receive daily briefings on legal and governmental matters in the UK and the European Union. Harper Collins migrated an data warehouse solutions from proprietary systems to ProLiant 6000 systems running Windows NT and Microsoft SQL Server. The two servers combine four databases totaling 260GB to provide the core decision support application for HarperCollins. ProBusiness is a leading provider of outsourced administrative services for over 1800 companies around the United States.
Customer service is a primary competitive difference for the company.
They chose Siebel and Compaq as the foundation for their CRM application and the delivery of critial applications to their customers. Syntegra provides a business intelligence solution for organizations to understand and manage their email usage. A 300GB database running on Compaq ProLiant servers uses OLAP services provides access to messaging metrics. Customers of SCMP Internet Edition get the news thanks to the combination of Microsoft Windows NT Server, NetShow and SQL Server running on Compaq.