Cargill Selects HP OpenView for Enterprise Systems Management; International Food Marketer to Standardize on HP OpenView Enterprise-management Solutions

Business Wire, Nov 3, 1998

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1998--Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that Cargill, an international marketer of agricultural, food, financial and industrial products, has selected the HP OpenView enterprise-management portfolio, which provides improved systems management and increased availability, to support its business applications.

In a project to create a systems-management model for its enterprise architecture, Cargill will implement HP OpenView solutions at five business units: Financial Markets Group, Food Sector, Corporate, Northstar Steel and Europe. Cargill says it intends to standardize on HP OpenView solutions to manage its worldwide infrastructure, which includes 1,800 servers on a range of platforms, including Novell, Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R), UNIX(R) system and IBM AS/400 platforms.

Cargill is extending its use of HP OpenView solutions to include HP OpenView IT/Operations to manage the company's 470 UNIX and Windows NT systems and networks, and HP OpenView IT/Administration for software distribution to approximately 300 UNIX system servers and some software inventory. Cargill already has deployed HP OpenView Network Node Manager for its network management.

"HP OpenView solutions provided the openness we needed to build our enterprise-management architecture in a flexible way," said Carla Hawley, Systems Management Environment (SME) program manager at Cargill. "The HP OpenView building-block architecture and open-systems approach ensured that we could implement the solution as we needed. In addition, HP is a strategic partner for Cargill, and the company works with us to implement a best-in-class solution."

HP OpenView IT/Operations Ensures Service Levels are Met

Cargill's goal in implementing HP OpenView solutions was to meet the service levels the Cargill IT organization had established with the business units it supported. HP OpenView IT/Operations, an end-to-end operations and availability management solution, uses a common user interface to provide Cargill IT staff with immediate access to the status of mission-critical systems, network infrastructures and business-critical applications. HP OpenView IT/Operation's automated actions and intelligent event-management capabilities enable Cargill IT staff to identify, correlate and resolve problems before end users are affected, enabling continuous delivery of expected service levels.

HP OpenView IT/Administration Enables End-to-end Inventory

Another goal for Cargill was to gain insight into end-to-end inventory, which it has achieved by integrating HP OpenView IT/Administration with several other products. HP OpenView IT/Administration provides user, software, inventory and system administration for mixed UNIX system and PC environments. Its powerful query, and automatic discovery and change detection capabilities provide Cargill with accurate views of and control over all of its managed systems, including hardware inventory, installed software and configurations.

About Cargill

Cargill, a privately held company with 1998 sales of $51 billion (fiscal year ended May 31, 1998), is ranked sixth among the world's top food companies. Its market segments are organized into five product areas -- Food, Agricultural, Trading, Animal Nutrition & Meat, and Worldwide Steel -- that cover more than 40 product lines.

About HP OpenView

HP is one of the world's largest providers of integrated network-, application-, storage-, security-, deployment- and service-management solutions. HP OpenView solutions are at work in more than 100,000 multivendor distributed computing environments worldwide. Together with offerings from more than 200 partners, HP OpenView offers a complete portfolio of services and management solutions on all major platforms.

Information about HP OpenView solutions can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.openview.hp.com.

About HP

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 127,200 employees and had revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year.

Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.

Note to Editors: UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. Windows NT is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.