HP today announced that it has been named a leader in the business
service management (BSM) software market by Forrester Research,
Inc., a leading analyst firm
In the Forrester Wave™ BSM report,(1) HP Software earned the
highest score for business service mapping and the second highest score
for both its overall current product offering and end-to-end monitoring.
Forrester defines BSM as software that dynamically links
business-focused IT services to the underlying IT infrastructure.
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In a separate vendor summary specific to HP's offering, Forrester noted the
strength of HP's modular implementation approach, which "allows quick
time-to-value and a step-by-step approach to managing the business services of
an organization." The vendor summary also noted that HP Universal CMDB is
"a complete system that provides the key capabilities required to support
today's business service management processes," and that HP Service Desk
Customers "are able to receive a closed-loop service health view."
"Key technologies acquired from Mercury have allowed HP to become a
leader in the BSM market," said Deb Traub, vice president, products,
Management Software, HP. "With the Mercury assets, HP can provide a
comprehensive solution that enables customers to monitor the health of
business services and applications from the points of view of the business,
its customers and its partners."
HP Business Availability Center software, a comprehensive business service
management and application management solution, helps businesses manage the
health of business services and applications and optimize their availability,
performance and effectiveness. Using HP Business Availability Center along
with HP Business Process Insight software further enables both bottom-up and
top-down analysis - HP.
business
process management software“There’s so much inventory out there that the buyer can pick and choose,” said Susan Sirles Fidler, a Realtor at Re/Max 10, Oak Lawn. But she cautioned, “The stuff that’s almost free is almost free because it’s going to cost you an arm and a leg to put it back together. It’s not buyer beware as much as buyer be smart.”
