HP plans to take its OpenView software business into full profitability in
the fourth quarter this year behind new products that address compliance and
service-oriented architectures (SOA).
The Palo Alto, Calif., company Monday unveiled OpenView Compliance Manager,
a dashboard tool that gives companies a single view of what what’s going on
in their IT shop. The latest version helps companies meet compliance
requirements around Sarbanes-Oxl
ey.
Todd DeLaughter, vice president and general manager of HP’s management
software group, said Compliance Manager specifically addresses Sarbox
Section 404, which requires corporate annual reports to include a review of
management’s
internal control over financial reporting.
“We looked at the challenges that some of our customers were struggling with
and it became evident that to get the initial audits in place and to do that
manual process of ensuring compliance without putting in place the right
tools and processes around that audit, companies will have to do the same
manual exercise at the same cost,” DeLaughter said.
HP crafted OpenView Compliance Manager to help workers automate audits in
subsequent audit cycles. The tool should play well in what AMR Research has
tabbed a $6.1 billion market for solutions that satisfy Sarbox. This
includes products that automate the design, documentation, review, approval,
and testing of a company’s internal controls framework.
DeLaughter said HP got the idea for the product from the company’s internal
IP audit group, which was building a solution to treat Sarbox based on
OpenView components. HP executives seized on the idea and decided to make it
a market product.
Compliance Manager will hit the street this September, starting at $250,000.
It will drop in as an add-on to OpenView, or sit atop existing monitoring
and management tools after some integration.
“What had been a bit of a tire-kicking exercise around services oriented
DeLaughter also introduced OpenView Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Manager, a software component used to define, manage and integrate the
lifecycle of loosely-coupled components in a SOA
computing model. The goal of HP’s SOA Manager is to create better synergy
between information technology and business processes.
The executive said SOA Manager is designed to address IT professional
services that address SOA and Web services, a market Gartner claims will top
$189 billion by 2007.
architecture has entered the mainstream,” DeLaughter said. “The challenges
in this space are not only in how to roll out a Web services, but how to
develop, deploy and manage the lifecycle around that SOA.”
The executive said most management tools don’t manage SOA services well
because there are rarely fixed endpoints to monitor. SOA Manager triggers
the dialogue between an application development environment and an IT
operations environment that has to manage, maintain the security and
availability of that service.
SOA Manager, whose core technology comes from HP’s Talking Blocks
acquisition from almost two years ago, is available now. It will cost
between $25,000 to more than $1 million based on company configurations.
