News release

HP Expands Service-oriented Architecture Services, Opens Centers to Help Customers Enhance Business Performance

HP today announced a comprehensive suite of service-oriented architecture (SOA) consulting services and the opening of four worldwide competency centers to assist customers in planning, designing, implementing and managing SOAs to improve their business performance.

SOA is a highly efficient and cost-effective way to integrate heterogeneous IT systems and increase business agility. HP's new services are designed to assist customers through the entire SOA process, from envisioning and assessment to development and governance.

Located in Atlanta, Bangalore, India, Sophia Antipolis, France and Tokyo, the SOA competency centers are staffed with HP and third-party experts to offer customers access to architecture and consulting skills, software and hardware demonstrations, seminars and hands-on workshops.

The new services and competency centers build on HP's existing SOA consulting services and management software and follow the recent introduction of HP OpenView SOA Manager, a tool designed to manage the lifecycle of business services in order to achieve better linkages between business and IT.

HP offers the two critical elements for using SOA to run IT as a business: management software and professional consulting services.

"Companies can no longer afford to have disconnected technology and business processes that are not aligned to drive business performance," said Nigel Ball, vice president, worldwide marketing, Consulting and Integration, HP Services. "SOA is an ideal way to help customers effectively bring new products and services to market faster and increase IT governance while reducing IT complexity and costs of maintenance."

New SOA services help businesses become more agile

By enabling businesses to become more agile, HP's SOA services and competency centers underscore the company's strategy of helping customers transform their businesses into Adaptive Enterprises in which business and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change. The new services include:

• SOA Envisioning Service - intended for large enterprises to develop an understanding of SOA concepts, benefits and potential impacts on their businesses;



• SOA Assessment Service - uses the HP SOA Agility Assessment approach to help customers develop a comprehensive roadmap to guide the adoption of SOA across their enterprises;



• SOA Governance and Architecture Service - establishes the SOA Architecture Program Office to oversee enterprise architecture and the SOA governance model as the enterprise is transformed;



• SOA Enablement Service - based on learnings from the Governance and Architecture Services and prepares the infrastructure for the implementation of SOA;



• SOA Service Development - helps the customer define, develop and deploy SOA business and IT services across the enterprise, line-of-business, department, or at a project level;



• SOA Software Development Service - provides for volume and scale in development and delivery of business and IT services through the SOA adoption. A global software development capability helps increase productivity from customer development teams;



• SOA Management Service - for enterprises looking to gain control of their SOA adoption, including lifecycle management, services management, monitoring, auditing, analysis, service level agreements and policies.

HP's SOA delivery approach and process is based on several strengths: a robust architectural foundation; extensive research and benchmarks across vertical industries; a global network of third-party providers and HP Services professionals with expertise in architecture, governance, management, and security solutions; and a broad portfolio of SOA services.

HP OpenView software, including SOA Manager, and HP Integrity, ProLiant and BladeSystem industry-standard servers and storage round out HP's SOA service offerings, which are built upon HP global methods, certifications and vertical industry agility metrics.

HP works with industry leaders to broaden the reach of SOAs

BEA Systems, Inc., JBoss Inc., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and SAP AG are among the companies working with HP and its approximately 65,000 services professionals in 170 countries to spur adoption of SOAs.

"BEA is working closely with HP to help accelerate momentum around service-oriented architecture development and adoption," said Bruce Graham, vice president, Worldwide Professional Services, BEA. "The HP Adaptive Enterprise approach has been focused on SOA principles from its inception and the BEA AquaLogic Platform is designed so that it complements HP's SOA capabilities and can help to advance the Adaptive Enterprise. When combined with our companies' shared consulting skills, we can help to provide our joint customers with a world-class SOA solution."

"Designed for a service-oriented world, our .NET tools and technologies help developers and architects create new applications as well as connect existing systems," said Sanjay Parthasarathy, corporate vice president of developer and platform evangelism, Microsoft Corp. "HP's .NET leadership makes it an ideal company to help enterprises plan, build and implement web services solutions using a service-oriented architecture."

HP has an extensive delivery capability through more than 5,000 specialists with experience in .NET, J2EE and open source middleware platforms. Using a combination of HP regional and global application services delivery centers, HP offers high-quality solutions using uniform processes and methodologies (CMMi, ISO, ITSM) and best practices. In addition, the company recently instituted an SOA University for its consultants in order to enhance its vertical market and regional delivery capabilities.

About HP

HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2005, HP revenue totaled $83.3 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of HP and its consolidated subsidiaries could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including the expected development, performance or rankings of products or services; statements of expectation or belief; and any statement of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the development, performance and market acceptance of products and services and other risks that are described from time to time in HP's Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to HP's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31, 2005, and other reports filed after HP's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended Oct. 31, 2004. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.