At their annual HP Software Forum, they introduced 30 new (or enhanced) HP OpenView products, solutions and services.

Nora Denzel, senior vice president, HP Software Global Business Unit, claimed that "The evolutionary path we've drawn, the host of new HP OpenView management functionalities we've unveiled, the standards-based interfaces we're driving - all wrapped up with the tight integration we have with partners - help enterprises plan and transition to highly adaptive and cost-effective management for their entire infrastructure."

HP has charted the three evolutionary phases of adaptive management software functionality:

• Business Stability: Operations-centric management is designed to reduce total cost of ownership by providing IT managers with the means to stabilize and control infrastructure operations - across networks, servers, clients, output and storage devices, and applications.
• Business Efficiency: Service-centric management, built on this foundation, improves business efficiency and effectiveness by integrating and aligning the IT infrastructure with the services IT delivers to the enterprise.
• Business Agility: Business-process management takes an enterprise to the ultimate state of management fitness by using business process awareness to ensure that the IT infrastructure automatically applies the right resources to the right problem at the right time.

HP says that enterprise customers can map to these phases and, based on their unique priorities, constraints and competitive strategies, make the progression from a traditional management system that monitors and alerts to a 360-degree adaptive management approach that proactively assesses, advises and acts across all aspects of the enterprise IT stack.