HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced a significant new release of its market-leading service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance software, HP SOA Systinet 3.00, which helps IT organizations use their resources more efficiently to deliver better business value from their SOA initiatives.

An IDC Business Value Spotlight sponsored by HP found that an international telecommunications company achieved a 327 percent return on investment over three years using HP SOA Governance and Management solutions, including an earlier version of HP SOA Systinet.⁽¹⁾ The study found that HP SOA solutions helped the customer better align IT project management with the organization’s business strategies.

The company now uses its internal resources more efficiently while improving the quality and reducing the cost of its subscriber services. In addition, the study found that the company had:

• Reduced technology service downtime by 33 percent, resulting in a savings of $2 million annually.
• Improved customer retention, leading to a savings of $1.35 million annually.
• Reduced time to market for new services, resulting in an annual benefit of $1.8 million.
• Saved nearly $800,000 in IT costs.

“IT organizations are accelerating the expansion of SOA across the entire organization to significantly improve IT responsiveness while reducing costs and freeing up more resources for innovation,” said Tim Hall, director, SOA products, Software, HP. “As the industry leader in SOA governance, HP SOA Systinet helps IT organizations integrate SOA with existing IT processes and bring new users up to speed quickly.”

Major upgrades to HP SOA governance software help boost business results

HP SOA Systinet 3.00 helps increase the business value of SOA by empowering many people within an organization to discover, evaluate and reuse services in their composite applications and business processes.

New features in HP SOA Systinet 3.00 include:

• Best-practices-driven automation: Customers can automate service life cycle policy compliance through capturing best practices to make it easier to achieve their SOA objectives. New, pre-built life cycles and templates help bring non-experts up to speed quickly.