The acquisition was one of two announced by Palo Alto-based HP earlier this month. Consera is a small, privately held company with software that enables administrators to set rules for automated systems management based on business activity models and workflows, and is now part of HP’s OpenView systems management software family.
Now the acquisition has closed, HP has wasted little time in demonstrating what it paid for. The company will this week unveil a new software product called OpenView Service Delivery Designer that enables users to build graphical models of workflows.
The drag-and-drop application is designed to enable administrators to match business services to the underlying IT infrastructure, and is an extension of HP OpenView Service Delivery Controller, which was previously Consera AgileOne.
Meanwhile, a second acquisition, that of configuration and change management vendor Novadigm, is subject to shareholder approval and is not expected to close until the end of the first half of the year. HP’s senior vice president of adaptive enterprise, Nora Denzel, described how the Consera, Novadigm and existing HP OpenView technologies would eventually work together.
The company sees Consera’s software being used to set the rules and parameters for a system according to business activity models built using OpenView Service Delivery Designer.
Once the workflow models have been tested and implemented, Consera software will call on Novadigm’s automated configuration management software to put them in to practice. HP’s OpenView software will then be used to monitor whether the rules and parameters are being kept to.
This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire