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HP Software is the 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...

 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). From September 2005 through 2010, HP purchased a total of 15 software companies. According to Software Magazine, HP is the 3rd largest software company in the world in total software revenue, behind 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...

 and Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 as the first and second largest, respectively. In May 2010, HP announced that Bill Veghte would serve as the executive vice president of HP Software. Veghte formerly led Microsoft's Windows business. HP continued to acquire software and technology businesses in 2010. In August 2010, HP announced it would acquire 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...

, a software security assurance company, specializing in static application security analysis. Also in August 2010, HP announced the acquisition of Denver-based 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...

, a privately held database and application automation company for 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 ....

. In mid-September 2010, HP announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire 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,...

 (Nasdaq: ARST), a security and compliance software provider, for $43.50 per share, or approximately $1.5 billion. On October 22, 2010, HP announced it had completed its acquisition of ArcSight. The acquisitions of Fortify, Arcsight and TippingPoint are now being integrated into HP's IT security software portfolio. In Feb. 2011, HP announced it would acquire, real-time analytics platform company 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...

, a privately-held firm based in Billerica, Mass. On March 22, 2011, HP completed its acquisition of Vertica to expands HP’s information optimization, business intelligence and analytics portfolio for large enterprise companies and the public sector.

Product portfolio

HP Software sells three categories of software: IT performance management, IT management software and information management software. HP Software also provides consulting, Software as a service
Software as a Service
Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...

, 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 ....

 solutions, education and support services.

IT Performance Suite

The newest category of products offered by HP Software Division is the IT Performance Suite, announced on June 1, 2011. The HP IT Performance Suite captures and measures IT performance with a consolidated view into an organization’s technology environment, designed to provide a comprehensive view of IT performance across the enterprise. The HP IT Performance Suite uses the entire HP Software portfolio in a dashboard format that can be customized to measure specific key performance indicators. IT Performance Suite incorporates the use of industry standards including the Information Technology Infrastructure Library
Information Technology Infrastructure Library
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library , is a set of good practices for IT service management that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business. In its current form , ITIL is published in a series of five core publications, each of which covers an ITSM lifecycle stage...

(ITIL).

IT Management Products

The largest category of software sold by the HP Software Division is HP IT Management Software
HP IT Management Software
HP IT Management Software is a family of Enterprise software products sold by the HP Software Division of information technology company Hewlett-Packard...

. IT management software is software that supports business objectives rather than IT goals. 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, CA, and Compuware.

HP aligns its IT management software products into product centers. The centers and the products in each are:

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 a software product used by IT departments for managing and automating application modernization activities. The latest version of the software, HP ALM 11.0, was released in Nov. 2010. HP ALM 11.0 is a combination of a common platform, several applications and a dashboard designed to support software developers as they move applications from design through to delivery to operations. HP ALM 11 includes products from 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...

 and HP Performance Center. HP ALM 11.00 provides requirements management, test planning and functional testing, performance testing (when merged with HP Performance Center), developer management (through integration with 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. These software 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 foundation containing a consistent repository and open integration architecture with a supported SDK.

HP Business Service Automation
HP Business Service Automation
HP Business Service Automation is a collection of software products for data center automation from the HP Software Division of Hewlett-Packard Company...

is a set of technology software products used for 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 the 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 an 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...

 package.

HP Application Security Center 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: 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...

 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 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, TeMIP, 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, and Report Pack for Radius Call Detail v 1.3.

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, Operations Manager i 8.0, Operations Smart Plug-ins, Performance Manager, Reporter, HP 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 products, many from HP's 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, HP QuickTest Professional
HP QuickTest Professional
HP QuickTest Professional software provides functional and regression test automation for software applications and environments. Part of the HP Quality Center tool suite, HP QuickTest Professional can be used for enterprise quality assurance....

, 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
, announced by HP Software Division in June 2010, is composed of HP Business Availability Center 9.0 (BAC), HP Operations Manager i 9.0 (OMi) and HP Network Management Center (NMC) 9.0 software products. HP BSM 9.0 works 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 Software 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 ....

 portfolio
consists of a number of software, services and third-party integrations designed to help IT departments adopt and manage cloud computing implementations, both public and private, as well managing traditional IT delivery. HP Software Division markets its cloud initiatives using a lifecycle approach. For planning and design of a cloud strategy and architecture, HP offers the HP Cloud Discovery Workshop, HP Cloud Roadmap Service, HP Cloud Design Service and HP Service Management Consulting Services. HP sells two software packages for automating and managing cloud infrastructure and applications, 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 services, HP Cloud Assure and HP Elastic Test, are designed for securing cloud-based services. HP LoadRunner in the Cloud is another cloud offering from HP Software Division. In May 2010, HP announced that an on-demand version of the application performance testing software would be available via Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

Information Management Products

Information Management software is used to organize, protect, retrieve, acquire, manage and maintain information. The amount of data that companies have to deal with has grown tremendously over the past decade, making the management of this information more difficult. The University of California at Berkeley claims the amount of information produced globally increases by 30 percent annually. According to Julian Stuhler, director of Triton Consulting, data enterprise servers will “grow at a staggering 60 percent per year, resulting in 14 exabytes of corporate data by 2011.” Because of this Information explosion
Information explosion
The information explosion is the rapid increase in the amount of published information and the effects of this abundance of data. As the amount of available data grows, the problem of managing the information becomes more difficult, which can lead to information overload. The Online Oxford English...

 IT companies have created technology to help business manage this ever-expanding data.

HP Information Management Software
HP Information Management Software
Information Management software is used to organize, protect, retrieve, acquire, manage and maintain information. The amount of data that companies have to deal with has grown tremendously over the past decade, making the management of this information more difficult. The University of California...

 consists of a portfolio of two main categories, business continuity and availability, and governance and E-discovery.

Business Continuity has one main offering, the HP Data Protector
HP Data Protector
HP Data Protector software is automated backup and recovery software for single-server to enterprise environments, supporting disk storage or tape storage targets...

 software that automates high-performance backup and recovery from disk or tape to enable 24x7 business continuity. This software can be used any size business as it can grow from a single server environment to the largest distributed enterprise infrastructure.

Governance and E-Discovery software helps companies meet the requirements of legal Electronic discovery
Electronic Discovery
Electronic discovery refers to discovery in civil litigation which deals with the exchange of information in electronic format . Usually a digital forensics analysis is performed to recover evidence...

 and compliance regulations. The software meets the Electronic Discovery
Electronic Discovery
Electronic discovery refers to discovery in civil litigation which deals with the exchange of information in electronic format . Usually a digital forensics analysis is performed to recover evidence...

 Reference Model (EDRM) for capturing, classifying, preserving, finding, analyzing and recovering information. Products include HP TRIM Records Management System for electronic document management and Records Management
Records Management
Records management, or RM, is the practice of maintaining the records of an organization from the time they are created up to their eventual disposal...

, HP Integrated Archive Platform for compliance archiving, and HP Clearwell E-Discovery Platform for legal analytics.

User Groups

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

HP DISCOVER customer event

In 2011, HP Enterprise Business, along with participating independent user groups, combined its annual HP Software Universe, HP Technology Forum and HP Technology@Work into a single event, HP DISCOVER There are two HP Discover
HP Discover
HP Discover is Hewlett-Packard's showcase technology event for business and government customers. In 2011, HP Enterprise Business, along with participating independent user groups, combined its annual HP Software Universe, HP Technology Forum and HP Technology@Work into a single event, HP DISCOVER...

 events annually, one for the Americas and one for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). HP DISCOVER 2011 Americas took place June 6–10, in Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area
The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...

 at the Venetian/Palazzo. The HP DISCOVER 2011 event in EMEA is scheduled for Vienna, Austria, at the Reed Exhibitions, Messe Wien Congress Center, on November 29 through December 1, 2011.

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
  • Jan. 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
  • Feb. 2007: Bristol Technology, Inc., business transaction monitoring technologies
  • Feb. 2007: PolyServe, Inc., storage software for application and file serving utilities
  • Feb. 2006: OuterBay, archiving software for enterprise applications and databases
  • Nov. 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
  • Dec. 2006: Bitfone, mobile device software
  • Dec. 2006: Knightsbridge Solutions LLC, a datawarehousing consulting and integration services company
  • Nov. 2005: Trustgenix, Inc., federated identity management solutions
  • Sept. 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
  • Sept. 2005: AppIQ, open storage area network management and storage resource management technologies

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