HP, Polaris Collaborate To Help Accelerate IT Transformation

HP India and Polaris Software Lab (Polaris) have announced an agreement to jointly market and deliver a range of solutions covering software, services and system integration for businesses in India. The two companies will explore new opportunities for strengthening and expanding offerings for customers in the Financial Services Industries (FSI) and software testing segments.

The offerings will leverage products and solutions from both companies to enable customers to accelerate growth, mitigate risk, increase flexibility and lower costs. They will leverage the capability of the Polaris Intellect range of products to enable rapid changes to banking applications and automated core banking processes with highly flexible and available HP infrastructure.

“Customers will benefit from the combined power of HP’s portfolio of enterprise technology offerings and Polaris’ expertise in the banking and financial services industries through our agreement,” said Neelam Dhawan, managing director, HP India.

As part of the agreement, HP will leverage Polaris’ suite of solutions comprising Global Universal Banking (GUB) Intellect 10.0 and Insurance Intellect SEEC while Polaris will leverage HP systems comprising HP Integrity servers, HP BladeSystem servers and HP StorageWorks to deliver high performance and availability. The alliance will also leverage HP’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software portfolio and Polaris’s testing capabilities. This will ensure applications function, perform, and are secure enough to meet the needs of the business.

The alliance will also enable customers with an all-in-one solution in the FSI market. Customers will benefit from improved quality and performance with scalable and flexible hardware and software solutions that will help them to deliver business applications that meet the needs of the business and achieve competitive advantages such as reduced risk of downtime and improved flexibility.