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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 5:20:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | With a new bundled software and services offering, HP looks to help manufacturers and distributors streamline the management of various SAP enterprise applications. |
| Keywords: | Hewlett-Packard, HP, system management, enterprise application management, SAP, ERP, enterprise resource planning, SAP Solution Manager, SOA, service-oriented architecture, SOA, SAP applications |
Hewlett-Packard Co. today unveiled a collection of system management software components and services that, the company said, can help manufacturing and distribution users of SAP's applications to test, change, and monitor enterprise systems and the underlying business processes they support. The offering, called HP Manufacturing and Distribution Industries Business Services Management (MDI BSM), debuted at SAP's annual Sapphire customer conference being held in Vienna, and is available now. MDI BSM integrates with SAP supply chain management, ERP, and other applications, and with SAP's Solution Manager tool, a 6-year-old lifecycle management software product for automating application patches and upgrades and monitoring system performance. HP's offering extends Solution Manager's capabilities by allowing users to easily establish and monitor business process service levels, understand the impact of IT changes and breakdowns, and head off IT performance problems before they can harm the business, said Peter Gibbels, global solutions lead for ERP/SAP services & solutions, manufacturing industries, in an interview with Managing Automation. [Click to continue] |
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