Vivit Worldwide

Vivit will be conducting deep dive technical implementation and integration training sessions on the afternoon of Monday, June 14, and the morning of Tuesday, June 15, before HP Software Universe kicks off. We have eight four-hour deep dive technical sessions planned. You can sign-up for these courses when you register for HPSU.

HP's call-for-papers deadline was February 1, and they are no longer accepting submittals from their customer base at large. But because Vivit members are among HP's most innovative software users and are accustomed to sharing their insights with other HP customers, HP is offering Vivit members one more chance to be a speaker at HP Software Universe 2010. The new deadline is Feb 19. HP needs your expertise to help make Software Universe a big success. Don’t miss out on benefits like:

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Outcomes that matter—now
HP Software Universe 2010 is all about what matters today—to you, your organization, and your business. Join your fellow Vivit members in June to immerse yourself in techniques, product knowledge, and best practices that will help you cope with your day-to-day challenges, deliver better results, and build your professional skills.

Education sessions delivered by working experts
As a member of the Vivit community, you know how valuable contact with your peers and with HP staff is. HP Software Universe 2010 takes that value to higher levels as HP specialists, industry experts, and customers host:

Thursday, February 18, 2010
Time: 9 am Pacific / 12 pm Eastern / 5 pm UK
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Successful initiatives depend on attention to process and organizational awareness, just as much as technology. The combination can produce striking results. But where do you begin?

Join HP and featured speaker Dennis Drogseth from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) as they share tactical actions you can take now that induce longer-term additive benefits including:

Register now to get practical recommendations that turn your long-term strategies into near-term efficiencies.

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Leaders

Bangalore

Himanshu Chawla

Chicago

Laura Walker joined Chris Grant, Rocky Pisto, and Parikshat Bajaj. Her focus in on ITSM.

Colorado

Laura Walker joined Lance Stangeand Ed Sweeney

Finland

Sami Suro joins Juha Salmi and Nina Nummi

France

Cheikh Sadibou Deme

Ireland

Tony O’Rourke

New England

Mark Cronin and Jim Maas

Utah

Scott Offen and David Martin

HP Software Solutions Community launching soon. You are invited to Join Project Alpha.

HP Service Manager 7.10 is now listed on the official OGC website with more OGC-certified ITIL v3 processes than any other product. Why is this significant?

HP is the only vendor with four OGC–endorsed ITIL v3 processes certified at the Gold level. Having HP show up strongly on the OGC website demonstrates that HP has more processes than anyone that meet this single, definitive standard endorsed by the creators of ITIL, and the Gold status indicates that multiple companies have provided clear written evidence that they have implemented and are actively using the tool for each certifiable process. The four Gold certified processes are Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, and Service Asset & Configuration Management.

Click here for access to the official OGC ITIL website that illustrates our endorsement. Read more about OGC Background.

U.K.'s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) originally created the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) more than 20 years ago. In order to make technology investments easier for customers worldwide, OGC has officially endorsed the ITIL compliance scheme managed by APM Group Ltd. to audit vendor products, documentation and processes.

The official OGC auditing program looks at two areas of compliance -- functionality and product documentation. It also looks for accurately represented processes and functions. It is based on the premise that service management needs integrated tools, not just tools that satisfy a need. This makes sense because implementing ITSM should not only be about a point solution, but about the service and the inner workings supporting these important processes.

While some organizations, such as Pink Elephant and Gartner, have offered informal ITSM verification services for years, the OGC endorsement program gives vendors of IT Service Management products a single official standard to meet (endorsed by the original developers of ITIL).

On December 21, 2009, Forrester Research Inc. published an independent report, “The Forrester Wave™: Project Portfolio Management, Q4 2009”, evaluating project portfolio management (PPM) solutions from 14 vendors. HP Project and Portfolio Management Center earned the highest score in current offering for IT-driven PPM.

The report described HP Project and Portfolio Management Center 8.0 as “well suited to organizations with complex IT management needs.” Forrester observes that “HP continues to build out its vision for managing IT like a business with greater emphasis on executive visibility into the impact and cost of IT investments. HP PPM provides depth in managing various types of IT projects and continues to add integrations and features, such as financial management, that support IT management decisions.” Read the full report for more detail.

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Feeling the pressure of tighter budgets and complex applications, the QA team at JetBlue re-evaluated its approach to application quality management in order to turn a potentially negative situation into a win-win for the business.

Once JetBlue realized the constraints of using open source, manual test documentation, and, yes, even filing cabinets to track its testing efforts, jetBlue opted to move to a quality management solution that would provide scalability as well as improved efficiencies and effectiveness. Now the team operates an easily maintainable, reusable, and cost-efficient quality practice.

Join Sagi Verghese of jetBlue as he shares the steps he and his team took in evaluating the testing demands of his QA department, the options they explored, and the outcome and benefits of their final decision. View Now

HP Application Security Center software products thoroughly test today’s complex web applications built on emerging Web 2.0 technologies and deliver:

Download this complimentary white paper from HP: “The Challenges of Automated Application Assessments in a Web 2.0 World”. Security experts from Stach & Liu describe the challenges and requirements of automated penetration testing or application scanning of Web 2.0 applications.