SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., DEMO 2004, Feb. 16, 2004 - HP today announced the completion of its acquisition of Consera Software, one of two software
acquisitions(1) announced earlier this month that will add powerful automation capabilities to the HP OpenView software portfolio. Consera immediately becomes part of HP's Software Global Business Unit, and its products will be available through HP enterprise and software sales channels.
HP also unveiled intuitive new software, developed by Consera, that allows users to customize and create workflows to automate IT management tasks. The product, HP OpenView Service Delivery Designer, enables companies to build graphical models that represent business services mapped to underlying IT components. This ability results in improved quality, speed and manageability of information technology environments, enabling IT organizations to adapt to changing business needs while supporting specific infrastructures. The product also adds powerful automation capabilities to the HP OpenView software portfolio for unified management of the complete enterprise IT environment.
"HP OpenView Service Delivery Designer provides the next step in creating a simple and integrated environment to manage IT processes against changes in business demands," said Nora Denzel, senior vice president, HP Adaptive Enterprise. "This technology is key to furthering the HP Adaptive Enterprise strategy in which business and technology are synchronized to capitalize on change. The Service Delivery Designer provides this functionality and ease of use, allowing dependable and error-free management of server environments to become reality."
IDC estimates that companies spend nearly $174 billion(2) on ongoing operations and management of their existing IT infrastructures. Over the past six months, HP has acquired critical management software capabilities aimed at helping companies reduce these costs and free up IT resources for innovation rather than maintenance.
HP OpenView Service Delivery Designer has been selected to participate at DEMO 2004 - a leading conference on emerging technology - and will be showcased during today's general session.
"During the past few years, DEMO has focused on solutions that provide the means for companies to run efficient and cost-effective organizations," said Chris Shipley, executive producer, DEMO 2004. "The HP OpenView Service Delivery Designer is an example of the steps being taken to drive toward a truly automated enterprise, increasing reliability, agility and ease of use while directly impacting the bottom line for organizations of all sizes."
HP OpenView Service Delivery Designer dramatically extends the functionality of the HP OpenView Service Delivery Controller (formerly branded as Consera's AgileOne product). Service Delivery Designer delivers an intuitive graphical user environment to develop new workflows or customize existing workflows. The software's drag-and-drop interface reduces the time and cost of development, testing and deployment while increasing efficiency and accuracy by offering powerful administrative features to manage the deployment and update process.
Additionally, HP OpenView Service Delivery Designer incorporates the ability to drive new or modified workflows through the deployment cycle, from development to production. The product provides a complete environment for building logical workflows and building blocks, deploying them into a test environment where logic can be assessed, then rolling them into a production domain while earlier versions are still resident. Multiple versions of workflows can be maintained on a single server, keeping a complete history of change and allowing users to rollback or verify operations.
HP offers solutions for the Adaptive Enterprise to create an infrastructure that is dynamically linked to business processes - a simplified, standardized, modular, integrated business and IT environment. The initiative is multi-tiered, involving servers, storage components, hardware support and interconnects, to help broaden customer choices in standards-based computing.
About DEMO 2004
The annual DEMO and DEMOmobile conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected by executive producer Chris Shipley from across the spectrum of the personal technology marketplace. Top executives from the leading hardware and software technology companies, venture capitalists, journalists from key industry publications and industry analysts attend the DEMO and DEMOmobile conferences to preview the most promising products and technologies for the coming year. DEMO is held in February each year and features approximately 60 new companies, products and technologies.
DEMOmobile is held each fall and features approximately 35 new mobile technologies. More information is available at www.demo.com/.
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. For the fiscal year ending on Oct. 31, 2003, HP revenue totaled $73.1 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com. (c) 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.
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