Hewlett-Packard Co. has introduced two new management products in its OpenView portfolio, HP OpenView Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Manager and HP OpenView Compliance Manager.
SOA Manager capitalizes on HP's previous acquisition of Talking Blocks, while Compliance Manager, which automates the monitoring and reporting of compliance controls and risk, was a collaborative effort with HP's internal audit department. The new products will be leveraged by HP's Consulting and Integration Services division.
Both products are "in line with helping CIOs [chief information officers] manage the IT environment to be a more adaptive enterprise," said Todd DeLaughter, vice president and general manager of management software business at Hewlett-Packard, in Palo Alto, Calif. "Both announcements help the CIO around the management and reduction of risk." The Adaptive Enterprise is HP's strategy for helping companies respond to change, mitigate risk and achieve business agility.
The six acquisitions HP made over the past 14 months were part of that strategy, DeLaughter said. "We were looking for things that were critical elements of managing an adaptive enterprise, which is a vision for how to help customers sync IT departments with business. Talking Blocks played a key role. They brought to us a service-oriented architecture, a powerful way to deliver and manage Web services, and also an integration channel for integrating partner products."
