Rabobank Selects HP Neoview, Services for Business Intelligence


HP extends risk management capabilities to financial services customers

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 1, 2007 - HP today announced that Rabobank, a full-range
financial services provider, has selected a business intelligence solution from HP in a
deal valued at $4.3 million.

Netherlands-based Rabobank, which serves more than 9 million individuals and
corporate clients in 38 countries, selected a solution based on HP Neoview, a nextgeneration data warehousing platform, as well as HP Services. The solution, having
already demonstrated improvements in performance and cost, is expected to accelerate
Rabobank's business growth.

HP has delivered a state-of-the-art solution to meet our business intelligence needs, said Rik Op den Brouw, senior executive vice president, Information and Communication
Technology, Rabobank. HP Neoview has exceeded our expectations in a joint proof of
concept. The first implementation expects to deliver 10 to 20 times the performance we
had with competitive offerings.

Separately, HP announced a new business intelligence solution that enables financial
services organizations to better measure risk and improve compliance management
processes. Based on HP Neoview, the HP Enterprise Risk Management solution
addresses all three pillars of Basel II and aids in the compliance of industry regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, International Accounting Standards, Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Customer.

The HP Enterprise Risk Management solution was developed in collaboration with
industry-leading business intelligence software partners Informatica, MicroStrategy and
Quadrant. HP has coupled this technology with its business intelligence hardware and
services to deliver a broad offering for enhanced data access, governance and data
quality management.

The powerful combination of Quadrant's data model and domain expertise,
Informatica's enterprise-grade data integration and quality tools, and MicroStrategy's business intelligence platform with advanced dashboarding capabilities allows financial institutions to achieve a comprehensive understanding of risk within every aspect of their business.

Regulatory compliance is an ever-increasing burden for financial institutions, and one
that HP is well-equipped to address, said Tim Evans, global director, Banking, and chief technology officer, Financial Services Industries, HP. The HP Enterprise Risk
Management solution is designed to use the capabilities of business intelligence to better address these challenges.

More information about today's announcements and HP's presence at SIBOS is available
in an online press kit at www.hp.com/go/sibosnews. More information about HP's
business intelligence solutions and HP Neoview is available at www.hp.com/go/bi and
www.hp.com/go/neoview, respectively.

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individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing,
personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world's
largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $100.5 billion for the four fiscal quarters
ended July 31, 2007. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at
www.hp.com.

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