Umesh Dayal promoted to HP Fellow

Umesh Dayal, a well known friend to the database community, has been promoted 
to HP Fellow.
This is a recognition of his exemplary scientific contributions over the years. 
The original
announcement sent on Jan 7, 2004, internally by Shane Robison, Chief Strategy 
and 
Technology Officer & Executive Vice President at Hewlett-Packard, follows:

"I am pleased to announce the promotion of Umesh Dayal, Director of the 
Intelligent 
Enterprise Technologies Lab, to the position of HP Fellow. HP Fellow is a 
distinction 
reserved for those individuals who are true pioneers in their fields, and whose 
work and 
accomplishments exemplify the highest standards of technical excellence.
To be promoted to HP Fellow, individuals must demonstrate extraordinary 
accomplishments
along three axes: impact and continuity of technical contributions, leadership, 
and 
breadth and depth of knowledge. Fellow nominations are reviewed by 
business-unit and 
corporate-level review boards consisting of technical and business leaders.
Umesh's contributions clearly qualify him for the title, "HP Fellow." He is a 
rare 
individual who has an ability to understand the complexity of the technology 
and the
ability to translate the value into business impact. He has been especially 
successful 
in identifying and creating novel uses of technology, such as in the 
application of data
mining to customer support problems, and in bringing combinations of 
technologies to 
bear on important problems.
Umesh defined the vision of the Intelligent Enterprise, and over the last three 
years has
created an interdisciplinary research program, combining decision technologies, 
business
process management, and enterprise solutions technologies, to realize this 
vision. Results
from this research program have been delivered to internal HP operations and HP 
Services, 
including a revenue forecasting tool that has been in use by HP executives for 
the last 8 
quarters; auction design technologies that have led to $300M in procurement 
savings for HP;
and SAN Designer, a tool for automated design of storage area networks that was 
released to
the field this year. Working closely with the HP Adaptive Enterprise (AE) 
Program Office,
Umesh is becoming an increasingly important contributor to HP's AE strategy. He 
significantly
influenced the definition of the business process and information services 
layers of the
Darwin reference architecture. Mark Linesch, Vice President of the Adaptive 
Enterprise
Program Office notes, "He has been an excellent collaborator across the AE 
technology 
landscape and a leading contributor of business process content for HP's AE 
strategy."
Umesh initiated HP's research on business process intelligence, a recent field 
of study 
that combines data warehousing, data mining, analytics and optimization 
techniques to 
monitor, control and improve business processes. The Business Cockpit is an 
output of 
Umesh's ground-breaking work on business process intelligence. This innovative 
management
and control platform allows users to define, compute, visualize, and predict 
business and
IT metrics on historical and real-time data, and to correlate IT management 
data with
business metrics. HPS support and outsourcing, HP Openview and many vertical 
industry
programs in the HPS Consulting and Integration business have benefited from 
this work, 
and it has been selected as the foundation for a prototype of HP Finance's 
Control Tower 
for business process outsourcing, a new services growth initiative.
By applying technical expertise to important problems, Umesh produces results 
that position
HP as an externally-recognized leader in business process management. For 
example, Gartner
cited his business process intelligence technology as HP's key competitive 
advantage in
business process management. HP Process Manager, a workflow technology he 
co-invented, was
rated by industry analysts to be the most advanced workflow product of the 
time, and
received the 2000 Global Award for Excellence in Workflow at the annual Giga 
Group/Workflow
Management Coalition/ Workflow and Re-engineering International Association 
Conference. 
In addition to holding 10 patents, Umesh has published over 110 papers in 
conferences and
journals. In 2001, he received the prestigious 10-year best paper award from 
VLDB 
(International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, one of two premier 
international 
conferences in databases) for his paper on a transactional model for long 
running 
activities, which was deemed to have been "the most influential paper written 
ten years ago".
His VLDB 2001 paper (with three colleagues), "Improving business process 
quality through
exception understanding, prediction, and prevention," is widely regarded as 
launching the
field of business process intelligence. He is regularly invited to give 
keynotes and 
invited talks at conferences, at other research laboratories and universities, 
and at HP
customer events.
Not surprisingly, his peers universally respect his as a pioneer in his field. 
In the 
words of one colleague, "His work from multi-database integration to active 
databases and
now in information management and business process integration are widely known 
and
considered as leadership contributions." 
Umesh is a remarkable technologist, leader and individual. This promotion 
recognizes his 
extensive contributions to HP and the external technical community. We are 
proud to have 
him as a member of HP Labs. 
Please join me in congratulating Umesh on this well-deserved honor.
Cheers, 
Shane."
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