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HP Takes Aim at SOA Market

HP has developed service-oriented architecture (SOA) frameworks targeting four industries that are ripe to adopt the latest trend in software development: financial services, manufacturing and distribution, network service provider and public sector industries. IDC forecasts that worldwide SOA-based external services spending will reach USD 8.6 billion in 2006, from USD 3.6 billion in 2005, an increase of 138 percent. By 2010, external spending for SOA services is expected to be more than USD 33.8 billion on a global basis.

For the financial services industry, HP Open Bank and HP Open Payments, the company claims are designed to ease banks' channel application integration with an SOA-based approach to commercial and non-commercial software, including Microsoft .NET and BEA WebLogic's J2EE.

Based on SOA principles and three years of development, HP's Manufacturing and Distribution Industries (MDI) reference architecture (MIRA) is designed to ensure that collaborative manufacturing solutions are rapidly delivered, flexibly maintained and harness existing investments.

The company also claims that its e-government framework helps modernize government processes by allowing public agencies to more easily deliver new online services to customers while leveraging existing IT investments. Based on SOA, virtualization and a model-driven architecture, the framework offers a complete solution for governments, from conceptualization of the service-oriented government agency to development, implementation, management and support.

In the telecom market, HP has developed two SOA-based frameworks that enable wireless, wireline and broadband operators to create, deploy and manage personalized, easy-to-use services.


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