The Palo Alto, California-based company has been in an acquisition frenzy to build out the capabilities of the OpenView framework of late, so much so that it is now taking something of a breather, Mr DeLaughter acknowledged. We did six acquisitions in 14 months and have been pretty successful in integrating those companies, with a retention rate of 96%. Of course, technical integration takes longer, he said.
HP feels that last year’s activity in ID and access management, buying two businesses (Trulogica for provisioning and the access management portfolio from Baltimore Technologies) and cutting a deal to OEM a third (Trustgenix’s federated ID management technology), has stood it in good stead, not only for OpenView’s traditional corporate customers, but also with regard to SME customers.
It tends to be the bigger companies that need an end-to-end management platform like OpenView, whereas internal security, i.e. who has access to what, is becoming more of a concern further down the market too, said Donald Dorr, HP’s EMEA marketing manager for ID management systems.
For the customers with big networks, meanwhile, Mr DeLaughter said HP is looking at trusted domains, in which you’ll be able to partition up a network according to trust levels and assign different levels of access to different users while maintaining olilcy centrally.
