EMA Impact Brief:
HP Improves "Business of IT" Analytics and Scorecarding with IT Performance Suite

Date: 09/01/2011

Length: 3 pages

Cost: $25.00

Abstract:
On Wednesday, June 1, 2011, HP announced the latest version of its IT Performance Suite, a scorecarding and analytics application for IT management, with broad coverage of the IT value chain. IT management is simply a form of management, and can benefit itself from scorecards, dashboards, and analytics. Products addressing this need have been part of the IT management software ecosystem for some time. Notable offerings include BMC's IT Business Management solutions, SAS Institute's IT Resource and Charge Management solutions and (in part) IBM's Tivoli Data Warehouse. HP has had a "business of IT" analysis suite for some time, essentially a data mart for IT management. The lineage of this offering dates back to the Kintana project portfolio management product, later acquired by Mercury and finally incorporated into the HP Business Technology Optimization suite, or BTO. (BTO as an HP brand is now being sunset.) In conjunction with the HP Discover industry conference, a new version of this dashboarding and decision support product -- IT Performance Suite -- has been released to considerable industry attention.