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by Beth Stackpole, Contributing Editor
Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 4:00:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Company rolls out vertical industry frameworks to give manufacturers, among other segments, a jumpstart in modernizing their business applications. |
Hewlett-Packard Co. this week added another layer to its budding Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative by unveiling new industry frameworks designed to help companies adopt and more readily re-architect their business systems. The initial four frameworks -- for manufacturing and distribution, financial services, network service providers, and public sector industries -- extend HP's consulting services with industry-specific best practices, research, benchmarks, data models, and business processes that will more readily help companies in these sectors assess, design, and implement new SOA architectures. By leveraging its SOA frameworks, HP officials contend, companies can improve communication and information sharing among customers, partners, and colleagues by extracting data locked away in legacy applications and by integrating key business applications. "HP recognizes that each industry has very specific business and technology requirements to effectively run their operations," said Uday Kumaraswami, vice president, Worldwide Enterprise Applications Practice at HP Services, in a prepared statement. "HP's SOA vertical frameworks are tailored to speed up processes and provide a flexible foundation for continuous improvements in their respective industries." [Click to continue] |
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