HP unveils dashboard tool at French event

12.12.2005
Hewlett-Packard Co. last week unveiled OpenView Dashboard, which is designed to let users quickly create views of complex systems to monitor the health of business services.

The offering was brought out at HP's Software Universe event in Nice, France, along with a new version of OpenView Business Process Insight and other tool revisions.

The dashboard, priced from US$60,000, will start shipping in the first quarter of next year.

Bill Emmett, manager of OpenView advocacy at HP, said the product allows IT managers to create views of systems based on various criteria within a matter of minutes instead of days or weeks.

'Quick and adaptive'

A major U.S.-based financial services firm has been using a prerelease version of the dashboard for a pilot online trading project over the past two months, said the company's vice president of architecture and engineering, who asked not to be identified. The system will be fully deployed next year, he said.