HP Software Universe Vienna 2008

HP announces enhanced Business Technology Optimization (BTO) software solutions to help CIOs quickly adapt IT investments to drive down costs and strengthen competitive advantage.

Ensure the success of approved projects by properly capturing business requirements and driving project execution against those requirements.

Provide greater discipline for managing application changes throughout the lifecycle with rich baseline and version control features for requirements, tests, and test assets.

The HP Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB) 8.0 modeling studio allows customers to rapidly visualize their infrastructure - from network to application and to all the inter-dependencies.

HP Service Manager 7.1: see future/pending changes in the top right box and the completed/historic change history in the bottom right box. Unplanned changes, such as someone installing unauthorized software to a laptop, will show in the pending state but it will note that it has not been approved or validated by management. The attribute will only be updated to the managed state if the change is approved