The idea behind the software is that it can summarize for executives the health of IT or other organizational operations, using actual operational data collected by HP and third-party programs. Metrics can be collected from IT maintenance applications, security applications and even financial applications.

Thus far, the company has built 50 connectors that can extract key performance indicators (KPIs) from HP software. The company has identified 150 HP software programs that could ultimately supply KPI data to the scorecard. For instance, HP software such as HP Network Node Manager could provide summaries of network shutdowns within an organization.

HP also plans to publish a data model that third-party software providers could use to feed data to the scorecard as well.

Specific modules will come with the package to visually summarize such activities as financial planning and analysis, project and portfolio management, and asset management.