HP BTO Software—Applications Portfolio

HP BTO Software—

Applications Portfolio

Deliver applications that deliver

business results

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Is your organization

trying to achieve

modern delivery with

legacy mechanisms?

Companies have spent the last few years pursuing

application modernization with the aim of greater

business agility, increased innovation, lower costs,

and a richer user experience. However, the means

of modernization—distributed global teams, iterative

methodologies, composite applications, Web 2.0

technologies, and Cloud—pose new challenges to

application organizations. In fact, many organizations

have embraced these initiatives without fully

accounting for the logistical complexities of making

them work. Simply put, too many organizations

are trying to manage modern delivery with legacy,

outdated mechanisms. The result is a loss of visibility

into delivery progress, inefficiencies due to an

increase in manual tasks and duplication of effort,

poorer application quality, less responsiveness to

business change, and higher total cost of ownership.

HP BTO Applications software solutions help ensure

modernization initiatives yield positive business

outcomes. And, HP sees core application delivery (that

is the Software Development Life Cycle) in the context

of the complete application lifecycle—from business

idea through retirement—as key to achieving positive

business results. By providing unified application

lifecycle management and automation software, HP

offers customers greater simplicity, not simply more

tools. The result for enterprise applications teams is

improved predictability, repeatability, quality, and

change readiness in both the core and

complete lifecycle.

HP Application Lifecycle Management

A single, integrated platform to manage the

complete application lifecycle.

HP is delivering the industry’s first unified software

product for core application lifecycle management

(ALM) built on a single platform designed to drive

complete ALM from inception to retirement. Built on

a common foundation and easily extended through

a modern and open architecture, HP Application

Lifecycle Management software accelerates business

innovation by empowering IT applications teams

to plan, build, and release applications, components,

and business services with high quality and

minimal delay.

HP Application Lifecycle Management removes the

gaps between IT team silos and disjointed work

processes related to project planning, requirements

definition and management, development and testing

activities, defect tracking, and application readiness

and release. It provides complete line-of-sight across

teams throughout the application lifecycle, preparing

all stakeholders for the impact of change driven

by application transformation and modernization

and reducing the “time to know” that can result

in the lack of delivery readiness. HP Application

Lifecycle Management manages the lifecycle across

all application aspects (architecture, functionality,

performance, and security) with a single software

platform, an integrated repository, consistent user

experience, and a set of extensible application

programming interfaces.

HP Business Technology

Optimization (BTO)

Applications is a portfolio of

integrated software that helps

IT application modernization

initiatives realize better

business outcomes by effective

management and automation

of the application lifecycle.

Figure 1

Plan, track, and manage the lifecycle of modern applications with HP Application Lifecycle Management software

Quality management and functional

testing

HP Quality Center software

Industry-leading requirements, test, and defect

management.

HP Quality Center software is a complete quality

management platform that scales from a single project

to multiple, enterprise-wide projects and releases.

It enables quality assurance (QA) organizations

to manage application quality with a consistent,

repeatable process that reduces risk and costs, and

increases efficiencies for testing and QA teams across

the organization.

HP Quality Center is available standalone or as a

core part of HP Application Lifecycle Management

software. It delivers requirements management,

release and cycle management, test management,

defects management, and reporting all within a single

platform, providing traceability and visibility across

your entire process.

HP Quality Center also drives communication and

collaboration among business analysts, QA, and

development teams. It is a Web-based solution, giving

distributed teams access to a steel thread of critical

project information regardless of geographic and

organizational boundaries. Simply put, it delivers the

information you need to make informed application

release decisions.

HP Service Test Management software

Prepare your quality teams for the challenges of

modern architectures.

HP Service Test Management software extends

HP Quality Center to address the challenge of

composite applications and shared services by

providing management and information about

compositions and dependencies. Access to

this information allows QA to test earlier in the

development lifecycle, determine impact to the rest of

an application when a change is made to a service

or component, and execute only the tests needed to

validate the change. This capability can shorten test

cycles and allows QA to respond more quickly to

modifications made by developers.

HP Business Process Testing software

Bridge the quality gap between subject-matter

experts and quality engineers.

HP Business Process Testing software brings business

analysts into the process of defining business use

cases and process flows and using them to increase

the accuracy of tests, aligning testing more closely to

business outcomes. With HP Business Process Testing,

test engineers define tests based on the defined

business processes, create reusable test components

using both manual and automated methods, and

share them with distributed quality teams for testing

within HP Quality Center. Now you can take creating

tests and testing frameworks to a higher level,

improving efficiency and test coverage with less

in-depth technical knowledge.

HP Unified Functional Testing software

Simplify testing from user interface to back-end

services.

HP Unified Functional Testing accelerates functional

testing for all modern applications by simplifying test

design and maintenance for both GUI applications

and non-GUI (headless) components.

“HP Quality Center software

gives us the information we

need to support quality across

the development cycle. We

can now do much more than

simply catch defects. We can

contribute to reducing the risk

of defects in the first place

and help streamline both QA

and development processes.

And we can do it with fewer

resources than we needed

previously, while supporting

more software applications

than ever before.”

David Moses, QA manager,

Delta Air Lines

It provides functional and regression test automation

for every major software application and environment,

including advanced Web 2.0 toolkits, leading

development technologies, headless services, and

ERP and CRM applications. Simplified approaches

to test design and maintenance, including keyword

and visual drag-and-drop, extend testing to more

individuals in your organization, while maintaining

flexibility and control for power users. And in addition

to independently validating GUI applications and

headless components, HP Unified Functional Testing

can validate and report on an integrated test scenario

of a process as it traverses through multiple GUI and

non-GUI layers of a composite application, reducing

risk and improving the overall quality of your

modern applications.

HP Sprinter software

Introducing a new era of manual software testing.

While automated testing can deliver significant

efficiency benefits to testing teams, manual

testing is often still required to accomplish testing

objectives. Manual testing processes and tools

also offer opportunities for increased efficiency

through innovations. HP Sprinter software, a core

testing component of HP Quality Center software,

is a manual testing revolution. Fully integrated with

HP Quality Center and HP Application Lifecycle

Management software, HP Sprinter is easy to use and

dramatically improves both tester productivity and

the accuracy of manual software testing. Manual test

scripts are launched from HP Quality Center into

HP Sprinter where the tester carries out the test.

Testing actions and results are simply recorded

within HP Quality Center. Defects can also be

directly logged within HP Quality Center, clearly

communicating and bridging the gap with developers.

HP Sprinter handles the automated injection of data

into the fields being tested, increasing the speed

and accuracy by which a test can be executed. The

advanced toolkit included within HP Sprinter allows

screen capturing, screen annotation, movie recording,

mirror testing, and system information. Simply put,

HP Sprinter has changed the game.

Requirements definition and

management

HP Requirements Management software

Help your diverse teams collaborate effectively.

HP Requirements Management software is a core

module of HP Application Lifecycle Management

software and HP Quality Center that allows distributed

teams to collaborate and share requirements while

they manage multidimensional traceability among

requirements, tests, and defects across releases and

cycles—all within a single, centralized repository.

It is a functionally rich, easy-to-use, Web-based

solution designed for business analysts, QA, and

development teams across the entire application

lifecycle. Through accurate requirements and

risk-based test management, development and

testing teams gain clear visibility and can focus their

efforts on high-priority business needs, so they can

help ensure that decisions to proceed are based on

quantifiable business risk.

Figure 2

HP Sprinter: A new era in manual testing

Performance management and

validation

HP Performance Center software

Manage and meet performance goals across your

application portfolio.

HP Performance Center software enables testing of a

broad range of applications, including Web 2.0 and

Rich Internet Applications, business applications,

and legacy technologies. It supports individual

project-based testing and scales up to support a

Center of Excellence for multiple projects and teams.

It is available as a separate software product that

is fully integrated with HP Application Lifecycle

Management software so that performance validation

can become a core part of the entire lifecycle

management process. Through this integration with

HP Application Lifecycle Management, performance

validation activities and results can be managed from

requirements to testing to defect management with

complete traceability.

HP Performance Center delivers integrated

performance testing solutions that can emulate

hundreds or thousands of concurrent users to apply

production workloads to virtually any environment;

identify potential performance bottlenecks; and

diagnose and fix the root cause of the problems.

Using HP Performance Center, testing teams can

stress an application from end to end—applying

consistent, measurable, and repeatable loads—and

then use the data to identify scalability issues that

could impact users.

HP LoadRunner software

The industry’s most widely adopted software for

automated load testing.

HP LoadRunner software is used more than any other

load testing solution in the world today, according to

independent analysts. Using a record and playback

mechanism, it helps you drive production workload

to your test environments, removing the main barrier

to performance testing across your applications. As

it drives load against the system, HP LoadRunner

captures the end-user response time of key business

processes and transactions to determine whether

SLAs can be met and business results delivered.

Non-intrusive, real-time performance monitors obtain

and display performance data from every application

tier, server, and system component. This data is

correlated with the transaction data to quickly pinpoint

problem areas.

HP LoadRunner gives you the ability to record and

replay at many architectural levels, from the GUI

level down to the transport and socket level,

depending on the skill set available and the level

of customization required. It supports the industry’s

broadest range applications and protocols, including

new Web 2.0 technologies as well as legacy

application technologies.

Figure 3

HP LoadRunner: The industry’s most widely adopted software for automated load testing

HP Test Data Management software

Test more and test faster by breaking the logjam

of access to test data.

Access to test data can be one of the major inhibitors

to timely and comprehensive application quality

management and testing. Modern applications

depend on complex data designs that spread across

multiple databases that can be both internal and

external to a company. Manually extracting relevant

subsets of distributed data and maintaining referential

integrity is challenging and error-prone for testing

teams.

HP Test Data Management software allows

organizations to accelerate and improve testing

processes by creating de-identified, relevant subsets of

data in an automated and repeatable infrastructure.

It works with HP Application Lifecycle Management

software, HP Quality Center, and HP Performance

Center, reducing the time to extract and access test

data and removing compliance risk through flexible

data masking, for both manual and automated testing.

Application security

HP Assessment Management Platform software

Manage and extend application security across

the application lifecycle.

HP Assessment Management Platform software is an

enterprise-class security management solution that

addresses the complexities of today’s Web application

security programs. HP Assessment Management

Platform gives chief information security officers,

business managers, security professionals, QA,

and development teams the ability to extend their

Web application security program across the entire

application lifecycle. It provides management tools

and integrated automation for tying security testing to

requirements, tracking test plans, and communicating

results as defects and in dashboards and reports.

IT applications teams gain an enterprise-wide view

of their Web application security program and their

application security testing coverage and risk profile,

and they increase their return on investment by making

intelligent risk-based security management decisions

across their applications. HP Assessment Management

Platform works with HP security testing solutions,

HP QAInspect software, and HP WebInspect software

to help ensure application security is core when

managing quality application delivery.

HP QAInspect software

Make security a first-class participant in your

testing plans and processes.

With HP QAInspect software, you can introduce

security testing earlier in the application lifecycle and

find security risks and defects when they are less

costly to fix. It allows QA professionals to incorporate

fully automated Web application security testing into

their overall test management process without the

need for highly specialized security knowledge—and

while reducing the risk of slowing aggressive product

release schedules.

HP WebInspect software

Your power tool for delivering more secure

modern applications and mitigating business risk.

HP WebInspect software performs Web application

security testing and assessment for today’s complex

Web applications. WebInspect delivers fast

scanning capabilities, broad security assessment

coverage, and accurate Web application security

scanning results. HP WebInspect identifies security

vulnerabilities that are undetectable by traditional

scanners. With innovative assessment technology

such as simultaneous crawl and audit and concurrent

application scanning, you get fast and accurate

automated Web application security testing and Web

services security testing. HP WebInspect works with

HP Assessment Management Platform to scale your

application security program and testing processes

across your enterprise.

“Maintaining a centralized

portfolio of HP technology

management tools allows

McKesson to support our

applications development

groups more cost-effectively.

And we know the software we

release meets our customer’s

expectations, from quality and

performance through security.”

Todd Eaton, director for

Applications Lifecycle

Management Tools and

Services,

McKesson Corporation

Service Oriented Architecture

(SOA) and composite application

governance

HP SOA Systinet software

Gain predictability and repeatability through

visibility, policy management, and control.

HP SOA Systinet software provides your IT

applications and enterprise architecture teams with a

rich set of capabilities for establishing and managing

consistency across the application development

process and ensuring conformance to IT architectural

and technical policies.

HP SOA Systinet is based on an extensible repository

and user environment that simplifies the process of

publishing and describing application components

and shared services, their interfaces, dependencies,

and associated service level objectives (SLOs) and

service level agreements (SLAs). It provides an

automated way to apply and enforce the consistent

adoption of technical policies and best practices

so that component-based and service-oriented

applications can interoperate, integrate, and meet

business objectives. HP SOA Systinet is available

as a separate software product that uses open,

standard interfaces to integrate with HP Application

Lifecycle Management software. HP SOA Systinet also

integrates with a number of industry-leading run-time

policy enforcement software and appliance gateways

to extend governance to the complete lifecycle for

consistency and control of SLAs in production. In short,

while HP Application Lifecycle Management software

helps you deliver the right applications, HP SOA

Systinet helps ensure they are delivered the right way.

Extensibility for the Complete Application Lifecycle

Together, HP Application Lifecycle Management

software, HP Quality Center, HP Performance

Center, and HP SOA Systinet effectively support your

applications teams in improving core ALM—from

construction to delivery—and are also designed

to integrate seamlessly with the complete, or

extended, application lifecycle. HP supports seamless

integrations upstream with HP Project and Portfolio

Management software supporting the Project

Management Office, and downstream into production

operations to reduce overall application cost

of ownership.

HP offers proven and supported integration with

planning (HP Project and Portfolio Management),

deployment operations (HP Business Availability

software and HP Diagnostics software), and

change/configuration and service management

(HP Service Manager software). In addition,

run-time policies and SLAs can be designed using

HP SOA Systinet, associated with applications and

then deployed (via a UDDI registry integration)

and configured at run-time in policy enforcement

points and gateways, bridging the operational

policy management gap between applications

and operations. In addition, applications can be

discovered at run-time and brought into the

HP SOA Systinet repository for change impact analysis

via HP uCMDB integration with HP SOA Systinet. Only

HP offers such a complete and holistically integrated

solution for the complete application lifecycle.

About HP BTO Applications software

HP BTO application software and solutions help

ensure modernization initiatives deliver their desired

business outcomes instead of failing under the burden

of outdated, legacy delivery mechanisms. Where rival

solutions mistake the software development lifecycle

for a total picture of the application, HP sees core

delivery in the context of the complete application

lifecycle—from business idea through retirement.

Furthermore, by providing unified management

and automation solutions, HP offers customers not

simply more tools and integrations but greater

simplicity. The result for enterprise application teams

is improved predictability, repeatability, quality ,

and change readiness in both the core and complete

application lifecycle.

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