Responding flexibly and efficiently to changing market conditions is an important factor for success. This will be enabled through the Adaptive Enterprise, a strategy implemented by HP that allows companies to match IT supply to business demand.
With this approach, business processes, applications, and infrastructure are defined as services throughout an organization. At each level, it applies a set of Adaptive Enterprise design principles – simplification, standardization, modularity, and integration. The architecture should also be built on a set of key design rules of service-oriented architecture (SOA), virtualization, and model-driven automation. SOA helps organizations to tap into the power of virtualization, where resources are pooled and shared. Model-driven automation helps keep IT practices simple and costs low.
