On Monday, October 5th, HP announced our latest SOA Governance product suite; HP SOA Systinet 3.00.  This product was made generally available during the summer, but we held off on the announcement for a number of good reasons.  First, much of Europe is on vacation during August.  Second, HP was in the midst of acquiring a little services company called EDS.  But, third, and perhaps most important, we wanted to put it in the hands of real customers and publish some actual results.

Over the past few weeks, there have been a number of announcements by competitors that demonstrate that HP continues to lead the pack and set the agenda for comprehensive SOA solutions which include providing unique capabiliteis to address the issues of SOA Governance, Quality and Management.  It is true that our solutions are made up of a number of products acquired over the past few years, but they also include a significant amount of intellectual property created over the past seven years; we have completed our integration and are full speed ahead on execution.  Further, the solutions are available now, not next quarter or next year and customers can take advantage of these capabilities and our expertise embedded within these products immediately.

HP set out to pull together the best companies in the software space and in so doing a comprehensive strategy around how to address the SOA solutions market.  Customers have made investements in middleware platforms which provide capabilities to expose and consume services, but these are technology centric attempts to solve problems which are simply not technological in nature.  Companies who are reaping the benefits of SOA are doing so through a combination of organizational and technological transformations to move away from "capability-centric" IT delivery and adopt "service-orientation" at their core. 

So, as HP continues to see companies attempt to meld together their strategies, playing catch up, and attempting to determine where SOA is taking them.  HP continues to describe what success looks like and provide concrete results with our customers to guide the way forward.

 You can find a Flash-based demo of the product here: http://www.hp.com/go/soa (under learn more on the right).