HP to buy SW firm TruLogica

SAN FRANCISCO: Hewlett-Packard Co. said that it agreed to buy closely held TruLogica Inc. in the latest of a string of software acquisitions the company has made over the last year.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

TruLogica's software automates the process of adding or deleting users from companies' disparate computing systems, governing access privileges to those systems, and changing passwords, Palo Alto, California-based HP said.

After completing the transaction, TruLogica's technology will be folded into HP's OpenView Select Access management software, HP said.

Dallas-based TruLogica was founded in 2001 and also has offices in New York City and San Mateo, California.

HP has purchased a number of small software companies over the last year or more to round out what it calls its Adaptive Enterprise strategy, a way of automating, streamlining and stitching together computer systems, software and networks.

In February, HP said it would buy Novidigm Inc. and Consera Software for automation capabilities.

In 2003, HP bought Persist Technologies for information lifecycle management technology, Talking Blocks for its Web services management, and Baltimore Technologies' Select Access business, which had also developed identity management software.

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