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This week HP made a number of announcements around their SOA governance capabilities including new professional services and software in order to help companies “accelerate SOA adoption, drive increased business value and reduce potential risk to the business.”

According to Avrami Tzur, VP SOA, HP’s customers were asking for help in determining the governance process and deciding whether to focus on quality or performance. In response HP has launched three new professional services, all of which are short in length, with defined deliverables. The SOA Validation service comes with Systinet and the best practice governance process for validating services embedded in it. This can then can be expanded across the organization. The Quality service includes pre-defined metrics and processes. Because so many customers already have the Mercury quality software this service focuses on validating the quality and performance. The other new service regards helping customers with performance of their SOA services.

The software announcements include a new release of Systinet SOA Manager. This includes the Talking Blocks software purchased by HP 3-4 years ago. It includes runtime management, security, and routing mediation of web services. HP’s vision is to provide software to govern the whole life cycle of a service.

HP also announces a new product. HP SOA Registry Foundation packages and simplifies the Systinet registry, so it can now ship to many OEMs. It can easily be put on developers’ desks, and into distributed replicated environments such as oil and gas. The US Army is putting it in tanks. The registry is autonomous but is also integrated with Systinet and supports interoperability at runtime to achieve the full governance solution.

HP is also offering a new suite of SOA education and training courses. Last May HP announced its SOA strategy as focusing on governance and management - two areas where HP has considerable enterprise experience and software offerings. HP's strategy is to remain platform agnostic and provide the services and software to manage, govern and provide quality assurance for services. This announcement of new services and software furthers this vision.

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