HP acquires Mercury
July 27, 2006 10:24 PM
Filed Under: SOA
Folks at HP seem to think in the same lines as my earlier blog. They ended up paying nearly $4.5B for Mercury Interactive.
What they get from Mercury is the line of products termed "Business Technology Optimization". Borland also started venturing into this area which enables a lot of visibility for business into IT based on product offerings from Mercury like
- IT governance
- SOA Governance
- Testing
- Performance
- Business Availability
These layers allow IT shops to focus on delivering consistent level of application availability and SLAs allowing business to operate efficiently. Combined with HP's market leading IT management software, OpenView, HP provides complete software stack to cater to Testing, Performance, Governance, Management aspects of Application Lifecycle.
What it also gets from the Mercury acquisition is a powerful SOA governance tool that it got from the acquisition of systinet. This enables enterprises to deliver loosely couple applications using SOA as guideline but also manage the applications lifecycle.
Only missing element for HP in this whole picture is the "Security Management". Considering that there are very few independent Identity and Access Management vendors, <wink> I wonder who can fill that gap for HP. </wink>
Posted by Himagiri Mukkamala on July 27, 2006 10:24 PM
