The future for HP's OpenView looks bright
March 13, 2006 Sydney, Australia hosted Hewlett-Packard’s inaugural Asia-Pacific software forum in February where the company revealed its roadmap for its OpenView management suite, while focusing on SOA (service-oriented architecture) and integration. During his keynote address, vice-president and general manager of HP’s OpenView unit, Todd DeLaughter, was excited about the unit’s 20 percent year-over-year growth and profitability for the end of 2005. Even though HP has acquired eight companies since 2004, DeLaughter said OpenView has not strayed from its core competencies of helping companies better adapt to changes, and keeping SOA services up and running. “Putting together a services oriented business is futile if you can’t keep the systems running properly and this has been our main focus,” he said.  “OpenView business process insight is in its second generation. It looks at business processes and then maps the underlying IT infrastructure [and] how the business will be impacted if a process fails. There’s more out-of-the-box service metrics.” If interest is any measure of how OpenView is competing against rivals like CA and IBM, OpenView’s future looks bright as HP is claiming 750 attendees from 22 countries turned out for the event. DeLaughter declared OpenView’s dashboard as “unique” in the market because it allows 360-degree, real-time views of the IT organization and “connectors and technology to look end-to-end”. OpenView’s Active configuration management database (CMDB) — where all the product’s change and management is driven — is receiving its fair share of the annual US$111 million R&D spend. “The roadmap for Active CMDB moves the bar to the next level,” DeLaughter said. “It brings capability to do active reconciliation and [will be] defined on an SOA which is the way forward to application integration. We will use it to integrate OpenView products.”  HP OpenView’s portfolio marketing manager, Bill Emmett said with about 3,000 customers using the existing CMDB, Active CMDB will enable “powerful and robust changes” around the CMDB and will centralize information around IT services management. “We will build out Active CMDB with SOA-based integration [and] that distinguishes it from other approaches elsewhere in the industry.” OpenView is also expanding into identity management, which Emmett described as “the last approach to automation”. "It’s about creating and managing IDs to give people the right access to the right information," he said, adding that increased federation capabilities are also being developed. “We will integrate SOA manager into OpenView products to drive more management capabilities closer to the infrastructure itself.” Source: Internet News  Have your website professionally optimized by the search engine positioning experts at Rank for $ales. If your site has dropped in rankings since November 16, 2003, contact the search engine positioning experts at Rank for Sales. Get your business or company listed in the Global Business Listing directory and increase your business. It takes less then 24 hours to get a premium listing in the most powerful business search engine there is. Click here to find out all about it. For the best technical information on hardware, software, Internet applications, e-Commerce, B2B, Web services or IT-related industry news, visit Tech Blog. Reciprocal Link Exchange Program: If your company is engaged in the business of Web Services, the development of related Internet application, ecommerce or B2B development, Internet security services, Web hosting services or is involved in professional Search Engine Optimization, My Web Services is seriously interested in a worthwhile Reciprocal Link Exchange Trading Program with your company. Click here to get all the details.
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