HP IT Management Software
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HP IT Management Software is a family of Enterprise software
Enterprise software
Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software , is software used in organizations, such as in a business or government, contrary to software chosen by individuals...

 products sold by the HP Software Division of information technology company Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...

 (HP). IT management software is a family of technology that helps companies manage their IT infrastructures, the people and the processes required to reap the greatest amount of responsiveness and effectiveness from today's multi-layered and highly complex data centers. Beginning in September 2005 through 2010, HP purchased a total of 15 software companies as part of a publicized, deliberate strategy to augment its catalog of IT management software offerings for large business customers. Vertica
Vertica
Vertica Systems is an analytic database management software company. Vertica was founded in 2005 by database researcher Michael Stonebraker, and Andrew Palmer; its President and CEO is Christopher P. Lynch. HP announced it would acquire the company in February 2011. On March 22, 2011, HP completed...

, Inc. is the latest software company to be purchased by HP. On March 22, 2011, HP completed its acquisition of Vertica. The acquisition expands HP’s information optimization, business intelligence and analytics portfolio for enterprise companies and the public sector. According to ZDNet and IDC, HP is the world's sixth largest software company.

HP IT Management Software is the largest category of software sold by the HP Software Division. The concept behind IT management software is that IT needs to support the business and be run as a business rather than a cost center. The discipline includes software to help businesses manage their IT portfolio and assets, gain greater quality from their IT, govern the processes of their IT and improve IT security, to name a few. According to ComputerWorld, IT management software is designed to help businesses align IT spend and resources based on business priorities. Other companies who develop and sell IT Management software include IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

, BMC Software
BMC Software
BMC Software, Inc. is a multinational corporation specializing in Business Service Management software, with record annual revenue in fiscal 2009 of $1.87 billion...

, Borland
Borland
Borland Software Corporation is a software company first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, Cupertino, California and finally Austin, Texas. It is now a Micro Focus subsidiary. It was founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn.-The 1980s:...

, CA, and Compuware
Compuware
Compuware Corporation is a software company with products aimed at the information technology departments of large businesses. The company's services also include testing, development, professional services automation, project and portfolio management, cloud-based collaboration and performance...

.

IT Management Software products

HP markets its IT management software products via product centers. The centers and the products in each are:
  • HP Application Security Center
    HP Application Security Center
    HP Application Security Center is a set of technology solutions by HP Software Division. Much of the portfolio for this solution suite was from HP's acquisition of SPI Dynamics...

     consists of products that were formerly part of the SPI Dynamics software company portfolio. The Application Security Center catalog includes DevInspect, Assessment Platform, QAInspect and WebInspect.

  • HP Business Availability Center includes several application management products: Business Service Level Management Software, Business Process Monitor, Business Process Insight, Discovery and Dependency Mapping, End User Management Problem Isolation, HP SiteScope, System Availability Management, TransactionVision and HP Universal CMDB software, a configuration management database for ITIL
    Itil
    Itil may mean:*Atil or Itil, the ancient capital of Khazaria*Itil , also Idel, Atil, Atal, the ancient and modern Turkic name of the river Volga.ITIL can stand for:*Information Technology Infrastructure Library...

    -based initiatives.

  • HP Business Service Automation is a set of technology software products that work together to present a comprehensive approach to unifying and standardizing the work of Information Technology
    Information technology
    Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

     (IT). HP Business Service Automation creates a common, enterprise-wide view of each business service; enables the automation of change and compliance across all devices that make up a business service; connects IT processes and coordinates teams via common workflows; and integrates with monitoring and ticketing tools to form a complete, integrated business service management
    Business Service Management
    Business service management is an approach used to manage business-aligned IT services. A BSM philosophy promotes a customer-centric and business-focused approach to Service Management, aligning business objectives and priorities with IT or ICT from strategy through to operations and continual...

     solution.

  • HP Data Center Automation Center consists of Business Service Automation Essentials, Network Automation, Server Automation, Service Automation Reporter, Service Automation Visualizer, Storage Essentials, Operations Orchestration and Release Control software.

  • HP Network Management Center
    HP Network Management Center
    The HP Network Management Center is a suite of integrated solutions used by network managers in Information Technology departments to give them increased visibility into their computer network, to find network outages, to improve network availability and performance among the computers and devices...

     consists of the following products previously branded as HP OpenView: Network Node Manager, Performance Insight, Report Pack for Cisco
    Cisco
    Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...

     Wireless LAN Pack, Report Pack for Radius Call Detail v 1.3., and HP TeMIP Software from HP's 2002 acquisition of Compaq
    Compaq
    Compaq Computer Corporation is a personal computer company founded in 1982. Once the largest supplier of personal computing systems in the world, Compaq existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it was acquired for US$25 billion by Hewlett-Packard....

     Computer Corp,

  • HP Operations Center catalog includes a number of products from its 2007 acquisition of Opsware
    Opsware
    Opsware, Inc. was a software company based in Sunnyvale, California that offered products for server and network device provisioning, configuration, and management targeted toward enterprise customers...

    : Discovery and Dependency Mapping, GlancePlus Pak, Operations Dashboard, Operations Manager Dependency Mapping Automation, HP Operations Manager i 8.0, Operations Smart Plug-ins, Performance Manager, Reporter, SiteScope, and HP Universal CMDB.

  • HP Performance Center consists of four products gained from HP's 2006 purchase of Mercury Interactive
    Mercury Interactive
    Mercury is now part of Hewlett-Packard. The combination of Mercury Interactive and HP OpenView formed HP Software Division, a global business unit within HP Enterprise Business...

    : Center Management for Performance Center, HP Diagnostics, HP LoadRunner Monitors, and HP LoadRunner
    LoadRunner
    HP LoadRunner software is an automated performance and testing product from Hewlett-Packard for examining system behaviour and performance, while generating actual load. HP acquired LoadRunner as part of its acquisition of Mercury Interactive in November 2006...

    .

  • HP Project and Portfolio Management Center (PPM) consists of nine IT portfolio management
    IT portfolio management
    IT portfolio management is the application of systematic management to large classes of items managed by enterprise Information Technology capabilities. Examples of IT portfolios would be planned initiatives, projects, and ongoing IT services...

     products, many from its Mercury acquisition. The HP PPM catalog includes HP Deployment Management module, Discovery and Dependency Mapping software, PPM Demand Management module, PPM Financial Management module, PPM Portfolio Management module, PPM Program Management module, PPM Project Management module, PPM Resource Management module, and PPM Time Management module.

  • HP Quality Center
    HP Quality Center
    HP Quality Center is a set of web-based test management software offerings from the HP Software Division of Hewlett-Packard, many of which were acquired from Mercury Interactive Corporation. HP Quality Center offers software quality assurance, including requirements management, test management...

     includes HP Business Process Testing, Center Management for Quality Center software, Change Impact Testing for SAP
    SAP AG
    SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...

     Applications, HP Functional Testing software, QuickTest Professional, Requirements Management module, Service Test Management module for SOA, Service Test and HP WinRunner software.

  • HP SOA Service-oriented architecture
    Service-oriented architecture
    In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...

     Center includes SOA Governance Interoperability Framework, SOA Policy Enforcer, SOA Registry Foundation, SOA Systinet and HP Universal CMDB software. The Systinet product is a result of HP's purchase of Mercury Interactive.

  • HP Service Management Center includes Asset Manager, HP Connect-It software, DecisionCenter, HP Client Automation Software
    HP Client Automation Software
    HP Client Automation software is a PC configuration lifecycle management tool from Hewlett-Packard for automating routine client management tasks such as operating system deployments and upgrades, patch management, application software deployment, application usage monitoring and remote...

     and Service Manager software.

  • HP Business Service Management
    HP Business Service Management
    HP Business Service Management is a suite of service management software tools developed and marketed by the HP Software Division for end-to-end monitoring of services in the data center and the underlying infrastructure...

     9.0 was announced by HP Software Division in June 2010 as part of a portfolio of service management software tools that provide the IT department with end-to-end monitoring of services in the data center and the underlying infrastructure. HP BSM 9.0 was developed to serve as a common single platform for managing complex applications, including those supported by both private and public cloud computing
    Cloud computing
    Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....

    , outsourced IT, software-as-a-service (Saas) and traditional IT service delivery.

  • HP Application Lifecycle Management
    HP Application Lifecycle Management
    HP Application Lifecycle Management ) is a software product targeted at accelerating the delivery of secure, reliable modern applications. It is a combination of a common platform, several key applications and a dashboard targeted at managing the core lifecycle of applications. ALM focuses on...

     (HP ALM), is enterprise software that provides Information Technology
    Information technology
    Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

     departments with a centralized application management platform for managing and automating applications within and across teams and throughout the complete process of developing an application, all within a single workflow. The latest version of the software, released in November 2010, is HP ALM 11.0. HP ALM 11.0 is targeted at accelerating the delivery of secure, reliable modern applications. It is a combination of a common platform, several key applications and a dashboard targeted at managing the core lifecycle of applications. ALM 11.0 is designed to support the key stakeholders responsible for delivering applications as they progress through their lifecycle. It focuses on the core lifecycle from design through readiness for delivery to operations. HP ALM 11.00 delivers requirements management, test planning and functional testing, performance testing (when merged with HP Performance Center), developer management (through integration with the most widely used developer environments such as Collabnet
    CollabNet
    CollabNet is a company that sells application lifecycle management software for distributed development teams engaged in both enterprise and open source development.-History:...

     TeamForge and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all...

    ) and defect management. All of these core lifecycle activities are connected together from a workflow perspective with a common management console, layer of project tracking and planning and built on a common software In addition to the software solutions, HP offers a number of consulting services to support HP ALM 11.

  • HP Software cloud portfolio was designed to help IT departments adopt and manage the entire lifecycle of the cloud, both public and private, as well managing traditional IT delivery. HP markets its cloud initiatives using a lifecycle approach. HP Cloud Discovery Workshop, HP Cloud Roadmap Service, HP Cloud Design Service and HP Service Management Consulting Services help IT departments plan and design a cloud strategy and architecture. For automating and managing cloud infrastructure and applications, HP markets HP Cloud Service Automation Software
    HP Cloud Service Automation Software
    HP Cloud Service Automation is a solution composed of automation software tools for use by companies and government agencies to deploy and manage cloud computing applications...

     and HP Business Technology Optimization Services for Cloud Infrastructure. Two solutions, HP Cloud Assure and HP Elastic Test, are designed for securing cloud-based services.

User groups

While it is not an actual "user group", the ITRC is an online forum about HP Software & Solutions products. A new user group, the HP Software Solutions Community, officially launched publicly in April 2010 and includes all former software-related communities. In June 2011, HP Software announced a new Discover Performance community and online resource center designed to serve IT executives and CIOs.

Software company acquisition timeline

  • Mar. 2011: Vertica
    Vertica
    Vertica Systems is an analytic database management software company. Vertica was founded in 2005 by database researcher Michael Stonebraker, and Andrew Palmer; its President and CEO is Christopher P. Lynch. HP announced it would acquire the company in February 2011. On March 22, 2011, HP completed...

     Systems, analytic database management software
  • Oct. 2010: ArcSight
    ArcSight
    ArcSight, an HP company, was founded in 2000 and is a technology company that provides security information and event management solutions. ArcSight headquarters are located in Cupertino, California, USA, with sales offices around the globe including the United States, the United Kingdom, France,...

    , security management software
  • Aug. 2010: Stratavia
    Stratavia
    Stratavia, formerly known as ExtraQuest, was a software company that specialized in enterprise Database and Data Center Automation, and private cloud computing enablement...

    , database and application automation software
  • Aug. 2010: Fortify Software
    Fortify Software
    Fortify Software is a San Mateo, California-based software vendor. The company was founded in 2003 and provides products that identify and remove security vulnerabilities from software applications. Its initial funding was provided by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. In September, 2010, the...

    , software security assurance solutions
  • May 2008: Tower Software
    TOWER Software
    TOWER Software was a software development company, founded in 1985 in Canberra, Australia. The company provided and supported enterprise content management software, notably its TRIM product line for electronics records management....

    , document and records management software
  • January 2008: Exstream Software, variable data publishing software
  • July 2007: Opsware
    Opsware
    Opsware, Inc. was a software company based in Sunnyvale, California that offered products for server and network device provisioning, configuration, and management targeted toward enterprise customers...

    , data center automation software
  • June 2007: SPI Dynamics, Web applications security software
  • February 2007: Bristol Technology, Inc., business transaction monitoring technologies
  • February 2007: PolyServe, Inc., storage software for application and file serving utilities
  • February 2006: OuterBay, archiving software for enterprise applications and databases
  • November 2006: Mercury Interactive
    Mercury Interactive
    Mercury is now part of Hewlett-Packard. The combination of Mercury Interactive and HP OpenView formed HP Software Division, a global business unit within HP Enterprise Business...

     Corporation, application management and delivery and IT governance software
  • December 2006: Bitfone, mobile device software
  • November 2005: Trustgenix, Inc., federated identity management software
  • September 2005: Peregrine Systems
    Peregrine Systems
    Peregrine Systems, Inc., an enterprise software company, was founded in 1981 and sold enterprise asset management, change management, and ITIL-based IT service management software. Following an accounting scandal and bankruptcy in 2003, Peregrine was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2005...

     Inc., asset and service management software
  • September 2005: AppIQ, open storage area network management and storage resource management technologies

Competitors

  • BMC Software
    BMC Software
    BMC Software, Inc. is a multinational corporation specializing in Business Service Management software, with record annual revenue in fiscal 2009 of $1.87 billion...

  • Borland
    Borland
    Borland Software Corporation is a software company first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, Cupertino, California and finally Austin, Texas. It is now a Micro Focus subsidiary. It was founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn.-The 1980s:...

  • CA, Inc.
  • Compuware
    Compuware
    Compuware Corporation is a software company with products aimed at the information technology departments of large businesses. The company's services also include testing, development, professional services automation, project and portfolio management, cloud-based collaboration and performance...

  • IBM
    IBM
    International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

     Software
  • Oracle Corporation
    Oracle Corporation
    Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...


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