"IT organizations are accelerating the expansion of SOA across the entire organization to significantly improve IT responsiveness while reducing costs and freeing up more resources for innovation," said Tim Hall, director, SOA products, Software, HP, as HP announced a new release of its service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance software, HP SOA Systinet 3.00, which helps IT organizations use their resources more efficiently to deliver better business value from their SOA initiatives.

An IDC Business Value Spotlight sponsored by HP found that an international telecommunications company achieved a 327 percent return on investment over three years using HP SOA Governance and Management solutions, including an earlier version of HP SOA Systinet. The study found that HP SOA solutions helped the customer better align IT project management with the organization's business strategies.

HP SOA Systinet 3.00 helps increase the business value of SOA by empowering many people within an organization to discover, evaluate and reuse services in their composite applications and business processes.

The portfolio enables customers to build an enterprise SOA focused on efficiency, security and performance. With standards-based delivery methodologies and tools backed by global SOA competency centers, EDS helps customers increase technology flexibility to better meet business demands.

HP SOA Systinet 3.00 is available now. A demo of the software and the IDC report, "Reducing Operations Costs and Improving Customer Experience with HP SOA Management," are available at www.hp.com/go/SOA.