development company l.p. type hewlett packard enterprise business segment industry computer systems computer software consulting it services headquarters sunnyvale california united states key people robert youngjohns executive vice president & general manager hp software division products enterprise software hp information management software storage software hp it management software it performance management software number of employees 14 000 parent hewlett packard enterprise website www.hpe.com software this article s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information . please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . january 2016 hp software is the enterprise software segment of information technology company hewlett packard enterprise hpe . according to software magazine hp is the 3rd largest software company in the world in total software revenue behind microsoft and ibm as the first and second largest respectively . 1 hp claims that the hp software segment is effectively the globe s sixth largest software vendor with 5 000 partners and 50 000 customers and works with 94 fortune 100 companies . 2 on september 7 2016 hpe ceo meg whitman announced that the software assets of hewlett packard enterprise including hp enterprise security products would be spun out and then merged with micro focus to create an independent company of which hp enterprise shareholders would retain majority ownership . micro focus ceo kevin loosemore called the transaction entirely consistent with our established acquisition strategy and our focus on efficient management of mature infrastructure products and indicated that micro focus intended to bring the core earnings margin for the mature assets in the deal about 80 percent of the total from 21 percent today to micro focus s existing 46 percent level within three years . 3 contents 1 product portfolio 2 business service management software 3 application lifecycle management software 4 mobile apps 5 big data and analytics 6 service and portfolio management 7 automation and orchestration software 8 enterprise security software 9 software as a service saas 10 user groups 11 hp discover customer event 12 software company acquisition timeline 13 references 14 external links product portfolio edit hp software sells several categories of software including business service management software application lifecycle management software mobile apps big data and analytics service and portfolio management software automation and orchestration software and enterprise security software . hp software also provides software as a service saas cloud computing solutions and software services including consulting education professional services and support . enterprise security products include arcsight fortify tippingpoint acquired by trend micro and the transaction completed in march 2016 4 atalla business service management software edit the hp business service management bsm software portfolio provides end to end visibility into the health of business services powered by intelligence and analytics . 5 hp business service management software manages business service health in dynamic heterogeneous environments ; provides service intelligence to address known and unknown issues ; analyzes anticipates and remediates service health issues ; and addresses performance and availability across applications systems networks and storage over cloud virtual and traditional it environments . 6 hp bsm software provide information about the health of it services by automating the correlation and analysis of consolidated data including machine data logs events topology and performance information . 7 application lifecycle management software edit main article hp application lifecycle management hp application lifecycle management alm software provides a single repository for application teams to plan build collaborate test and accelerate the delivery of secure reliable applications . 8 hp application lifecycle management software helps organize and manage all phases of the application lifecycle management process including defining releases specifying requirements test management including planning and executing tests and tracking defects . 9 hp application lifecycle management helps to manage the application lifecycle from requirements through readiness for delivery using a consistent user experience and customizable dashboards . the software includes dashboards cross project reporting and the ability to share assets . 10 mobile apps edit hp mobile apps software provides end to end management of enterprise applications including application lifecycle management and end to end monitoring and management of mobile applications . 11 hp mobile apps software includes mobile application development mobile application monitoring and mobile testing . in may 2013 hp launched a mobile focused version of hp anywhere the company s platform for building distributing and managing mobile apps for the enterprise . 12 a mobile enterprise application platform hp anywhere allows developers to deliver apps through mobile containers and connect them to back end systems . these containers available on the apple store and google play are designed to take processes that are managed by legacy systems and deliver them with a strong mobile interface . hp anywhere works on html5 javascript and apache cordova and support sencha touch enyo and jquery mobile . the platform also integrates with mobile device management software players such as sap afaria . 13 hp also announced the hp anywhere developer zone designed to provide developers access to hp software developer kits sdks demo applications and application cookbooks . 14 big data and analytics edit hp provides big data and analytics software and hardware that locate understand analyze and act on data regardless of the format language or location . in june 2013 hp announced the haven platform a big data platform that leverages hp s analytics software hardware and services to create the big data ready analytics applications . 15 haven stands for hadoop autonomy corporation vertica hp enterprise security products and n number of applications being brought together in a framework . autonomy is hp s software for unstructured data search and analysis . vertica is hp s columnar massively parallel processing analytical database which is also available on a ready to run expand as needed hp appliance . the enterprise security products include security monitoring and risk management . 16 service and portfolio management edit hp service and portfolio management software is designed to help it manage a portfolio of services and includes project and portfolio management it service management itsm asset management and configuration management systems . hp project and portfolio management ppm is web based software that provides visibility into strategic and operational demand resource productivity and utilization and associated financial information across a portfolio . 17 hp it service management software integrates and automates service management across hybrid environments and provides quality control for it services . hp it service management aligns with the it service lifecycle described by information technology infrastructure library version 3 itil v3 supporting itil change management using a lifecycle approach . 18 hp asset management software manages the lifecycle of it assets . related capabilities include a configuration management system cmdb for configuration data and relationship mapping and a universal discovery tool for automated hardware and software discovery . 19 automation and orchestration software edit hp automation orchestration and cloud management software is an integrated portfolio that helps automate the lifecycle of it services from routine repetitive tasks and operations to automated application delivery in the data center or as a cloud service . in may 2013 hp released version 10 of hp operations orchestration version 10 of hp server automation and version 10 of hp database and middleware automation 10 and packaged these software programs along with hp cloud service automation 4.6 into a single integrated package . the new package was designed to speed deployment of application based services across a hybrid cloud environment . hp also released the server automation software as an appliance called hp server automation standard . it includes much of the core configuration deployment and compliance checking functionality found in the full software edition . 20 enterprise security software edit based on products from arcsight atalla fortify software and tippingpoint hp provides enterprise it security solutions including cyber security products . 21 hp s approach to security is to disrupt the lifecycle of an attack with prevention and real time threat detection from the application layer to the hardware and software interface . 22 in september 2013 hp announced hp security offerings that provide real time threat disruption and self healing technology combined with crowd sourced security intelligence . 23 these offerings included hp threat central a community sourced security intelligence platform to facilitate automated real time collaboration among organizations in addressing active cyberthreats ; hp tippingpoint next generation firewall ngfw ; hp arcsight application view hp arcsight management center hp arcsight risk insight and hp arcsight enterprise security manager esm v6 .5 c ; hp surestart self healing technology that automatically restores a system s pc basic input output system bios to its previously safe state if attacked or corrupted ; hp supplier security compliance solution ; hp continuous monitoring for the u.s. public sector ; hp distributed denial of services ddos protection services ; and hp security risk and controls advisory service for mobility . 24 hp enterprise sold tippingpoint to trend micro on october 21 2015 for approximately 300 million . 25 software as a service saas edit hp delivers several software capabilities through the cloud using the software as a service saas model including application lifecycle management 26 business service management 27 and it service management 28 products . user groups edit a user group the hp software solutions community officially launched publicly in april 2010 and includes all former software related communities and is designed for it practitioners . while it is not an actual user group the itrc is an online forum about hp software products . 29 in june 2011 the itrc was folded into the hp software solutions community . 30 in june 2011 hp software announced a new discover performance community and online resource center designed to serve it executives and cios . 31 hp also hosts an enterprise software it experts community forum . 32 hp discover customer event edit 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 events annually one for the americas and one for europe middle east and africa emea . hp discover 2013 took place on june 10 12 in las vegas nevada and is scheduled for december 10 12 in barcelona spain . 33 software company acquisition timeline edit feb. 2015 voltage security provider of data centric encryption and tokenization software apr. 2014 shunra provider of network virtualization products for software testing 34 oct. 2011 autonomy corporation provider of enterprise search and knowledge management applications solutions mar. 2011 vertica systems analytic database management software oct. 2010 arcsight security management software aug. 2010 stratavia database and application automation software aug. 2010 fortify software software security assurance solutions may 2008 tower software document and records management software jan. 2008 exstream software variable data publishing software july 2007 opsware 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 corporation application management application 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 inc. asset and service management software sept. 2005 appiq open storage area network management and storage resource management technologies references edit http www.softwaremag.com content contentct.asp p 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