HP Changengine 4.0 Provides Significant Enterprise Application Integration and Business-to-Business Enhancements.Business Editors/High Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2000 Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ) today announced the availability of HP Changengine 4.0, a powerful upgrade to HP's business-process-management platform that adds significant enterprise scalability. HP Changengine 4.0 provides four critical features to users of business-process-management software: significant performance increases, out-of-the-box Enterprise Application Integration (EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. ), re-usability of business services and a new powerful graphical process modeling tool. "HP Changengine has always been a highly effective business-process-management system," said Daniel Fustier, general manager of HP's Changengine Operation. "Version 4.0 increases enterprise scalability and resilience and reinforces Changengine's position within the EAI and business-integration marketplace. It also enables effective process-driven solutions for service delivery, particularly in the telecoms industry." The performance enhancements in Changengine 4.0 have extended the throughput capabilities for HP Changengine across the whole range of HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. (1) platforms, allowing HP Changengine to deal with hundreds of thousands of process steps per hour. HP Changengine 4.0 is also the release vehicle for the much sought after integration with ActiveWorks Integration system from Active Software. This close integration allows point-and-click end-to-end development of anything from application integration to business-process definition, providing one of the most complete and integrated EAI solutions on the market. A critical architectural piece in HP Changengine is the ability to create re-usable business activities. To this end the HP Changengine process definer has been completely re-written using the iGrafx Professional, part of the family of e-business solutions from MicroGrafx. This new definer continues the ease-of-use principles of HP Changengine, allowing point-and-click access to the new features of the ActiveWorks integration and re-usable activities. Employees, business partners, business applications and even other business processes can implement these re-usable activities, allowing faster and more reliable definition of end-to-end and business-to-business processes. U.S. Pricing and Availability HP Changengine 4.0 is available now at a starting price starting price n (COMM) → precio inicial starting price n → prix initial starting price start n (at auction of $70,000. HP Changengine HP Changengine enterprise process management is based on HP technology that enables automation and management of business processes across applications and organizations, within and beyond the enterprise. HP Changengine enables enterprise users and business partners to adapt to changing business demands by dynamically modifying business processes, independent of underlying applications and technologies, providing real-time management of the business environment. Information about HP Changengine can be found at http://www.hp.com/go/changengine. HP's Communications Industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. Business Unit HP supplies communications IT infrastructure to every Fortune 500 telecommunications company See telecom company. in the world today. HP and its partners deliver management, network intelligence, billing and customer-case solutions for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R) system platforms, enabling service providers to migrate from network- to customer-focused business models as the Internet and telephony worlds converge. More information is available on the Web at www.hp.com/go/telecom. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation of electronic services. HP plans to spin off Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. and distribute its shares to HP shareowners by mid-calendar year 2000. Agilent consists of HP's test and measurement, semiconductor products, chemical analysis and healthcare solutions businesses, and has leading positions in multiple market segments. HP has 85,400 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing operations continuing operations Parts of a business that are expected to be maintained as an ongoing segment of an overall business operation. Income and losses from continuing operations are reported separately if any segments have been discontinued during the of $42.4 billion in its 1999 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. (1) HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX 95 branded products. UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group. Windows NT is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. |
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