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HP gets cost-conscious with management software, licensing

Adds to SaaS offerings, offers zero-percent financing.
By Denise Dubie , Network World , 12/10/2008
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SaHP Tuesday announced upgraded software and alternate licensing options that it says will help enterprise IT managers reduce costs and continue to deliver services during the economic downturn

At HP Software Universe in Vienna, Austria, HP unveiled upgraded products that the company says will help enterprise IT managers better prioritize projects and manage requirements for the business. For instance, HP integrated Quality Center 10.0 with Project and Portfolio Management (PPM), which will enable IT managers to see the number of events, incidents and defects that occur in a project to ensure business needs are met and projects are finished within deadline. Quality Center software manages and governs software quality assurance processes, automates software testing and facilitates defect management, according to HP.

"In these uncertain times, what we are seeing from customers is a need to invest smarter and wiser so they can come out of this down cycle ahead, instead of reacting and retracting with cost cutting. They want to ride this economic trend out and come out ahead ultimately," says Ramin Sayar, senior director of Business Service Management products at HP.

The enhanced integration will also make it possible for IT departments to identify low-value projects and reduce investment and labor in such projects. Added integration between Quality Center 10.0 and HP Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB) 8.0 can also help customers centralize and standardize processes around best-practice frameworks, such as ITIL, HP says. This new version of UCMDB is integrated with 17 products across HP's Business Technology Optimization (BTO) portfolio, including Business Availability Center 8.0, Operations Manager i-Series, Network Node Manager i-Series Advanced and Service Manager.

"With limited resources to invest in new technologies, IT managers realize now is a good time to codify best practices," Sayar says. "Integrations with the UCMDB enable customers to see business services from start to finish, reduce risk and fix network problems using proven processes."

HP not only upgraded products with integrations, the company also introduced more ways to acquire its applications. For instance, the company made its BTO software suite available via software-as-a-service (SaaS) licensing. And in the wake of closing its acquisition of EDS, HP introduced EDS Designed for Run and EDS Testing and Quality Assurance Services, which provides enterprises with a clear path for modernizing applications and optimizing systems engineering processes, respectively. These prepackaged best practices will help customers get more from their investment sooner. And HP Financial Services is offering 0% financing, which Sayar says will offer more ways for customers to acquire HP software without budget worries.

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What does HP mean?By rglauser on December 10, 2008, 7:17 pmWill someone from HP please explain to the rest of the world what you mean when you say you have SaaS? Subscription licensing or the same old legacy software served...

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Cost conscious?By Anonymous on December 10, 2008, 11:06 pmIf HP was cost conscious, perhaps they'd lower the cost on their software! I used to manage a 125+ organization which had Quality Center deployed--we needed 30 more...

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SaaS is more than ITSM on the 'net!By rolff on December 11, 2008, 8:40 amRhet from Service-Now works in a very small part of the domain that HP covers. HP's SaaS offering comes from the acquisition of Mercury Interactive, and as such...

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More proprietary thinkingBy rglauser on December 11, 2008, 2:40 pmI guess HP's claims of SaaS for products NOT originating from the Mercury acquisition have just been dismissed...that was easy. But now I can't resist asking, what...

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HP SaaSBy rolff on December 11, 2008, 3:40 pmHi Rhett, I do not represent HP, but work as manger of an HP Software partner in Scandinavia. HP SAAS is based on preconfigured implementations, so it is up and...

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Clear as mudBy rglauser on December 11, 2008, 3:49 pmSo you're an ASP (not that there is anything wrong with that), Service-now.com is SaaS, and somebody needs to explain the difference to HP. Rhett Service-now.com

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