HP inaugurates SOA competency center

BANGALORE: Hewllet-Packard (HP) inaugurated a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) competency center in Bangalore as part of their $500 million global expansion investment strategy to deliver SOA for enterprise customers.

The new center in Bangalore will have a work force of 120 SOA professionals initially.

The competency center will be equipped with hardware and software infrastruture and will be at the helm of knowledge creation, contributing to the internal and external forums on SOA.

"The Bangalore center will allow customers and prospects to experience first-hand HP's extensive SOA capabilities and apply them to real-world business challenges," said G N Shrinivas, head, SOA Comptency Center, HP."SOA applications are the emerging technology and the India center will be the next generation data center,” he added.

In addition to the Bangalore center, HP had unveiled two more SOA competency centers based in California and Singapore. The opening of the three SOA competency centers brings HP's total to five worldwide, with two additional centers located in France and Japan.

"The India center will strengthen HP's SOA offering and will be a key component of HP's adaptive infrastructure solution portfolio. The SOA center will leverage HP's strong infrastructure technology to deliver IT as a service, building towards an automated, 24x7, "lights-out" computing environment" said Som Mittal, senior vice-president, HP Services, Asia Services and Japan. “Mercury is an important component of HP for developing SOA applications," he added.

Gartner estimates that by 2010 at least 65 per cent of large enterprise organizations will have more than 35 per cent of their application portfolios SOA-based, up from fewer than 5 per cent of organizations in 2005.

Bank of Baroda, DreamWorks, Helvetia Patria and Sidmar are customers of HP and the company has partnered with BEA, JBoss, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, TIBCO and WebMethods.

CIOL Bureau