HP has introduced new and enhanced quality and management software designed to increase the success of mainstream deployment of service-oriented architectures (SOA) by businesses. Companies will now be able to ensure that services meet all functional and performance objectives and are ready for production deployment with the new versions of HP’s SOA testing products, HP Service Test and HP Service Test Management.

SOA is an approach to delivering IT services in a secure and manageable way that uses loosely connected, reusable and standards-based technology that can be quickly aligned to changing business needs.

"SOA governance is the key to successful adoption of SOA within organisations. SOA quality and management in turn ensures that businesses run SOA successfully in day-to-day operations and production environment”, says Kamal Dutta, director, HP software, HP India. "The new solutions from HP Software will give our customers an opportunity to adopt and leverage SOA as a mainstream initiative and deliver better business outcomes ", he adds.

In addition, HP has announced new SOA management capabilities with HP Business Availability Centre for SOA, HP Diagnostics for SOA and HP SOA Policy Enforcer that together better monitor services in production, resolve operational issues and deal with changes to services. These software products will accelerate enterprise SOA adoption by providing assurances that services meet or exceed design and operational specifications.

By integrating these solutions across the complete service lifecycle of planning, quality and operations, customers can possess the confidence that their services will support critical business applications without risk of failure or performance degradation.