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HP Opens Three Experience Centres as Part of USD 500 Million Investment in SOA

HP has unveiled three facilities in Cupertino, Singapore and Bangalore, India, as part of a USD 500 million investment to deliver Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to enterprise customers.

The three HP SOA Competency Centres are comprehensive experience centres enabling HP, its customers and its partners to pilot and evaluate SOA technologies, solutions and implementations.

SOA is an approach to delivering IT services in a secure and manageable way that uses loosely connected, reusable and standards-based technology that can be quickly aligned to changing business needs.

“HP delivers top-to-bottom SOA offerings,” said Uday Kumaraswami, Vice President, HP Services (Consulting and Integration), Asia Pacific and Japan. “These centres allow customers around the world to experience first-hand how to apply SOA capabilities to real-world business challenges and reach their competitive or organisational goals.”

Gartner, an industry analyst firm, estimates that by 2010 at least 65 percent of large enterprise organisations will have more than 35 percent of their application portfolios SOA-based, up from fewer than five percent of organisations in 2005. “The growing interest in composite applications and, in particular, composite applications developed with SOA, stems from the potential of establishing applications that are more flexible [and] provide the agility required to compete in today’s competitive environment,” according to Gartner.


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