HP Software Division

HP Software Division

HP Software is the Enterprise software division of information technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP).

From September 2005 through 2010, HP purchased a total of 15 software companies. According to Software Magazine, HP is the 3rd largest software company in the world in total software revenue, behind IBM and Microsoft as the first and second largest, respectively. In May 2010, HP announced that Bill Veghte would serve as the executive vice president of HP Software. Veghte formerly led Microsoft's Windows business. HP continued to acquire software and technology businesses in 2010.

In August 2010, HP announced it would acquire Fortify Software, a software security assurance company, specializing in static application security analysis. Also in August 2010, HP announced the acquisition of Denver-based Stratavia, a privately held database and application automation company for cloud computing. In mid-September 2010, HP announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire ArcSight (Nasdaq: ARST), a security and compliance software provider, for $43.50 per share, or approximately $1.5 billion. On October 22, 2010, HP announced it had completed its acquisition of ArcSight. The acquisitions of Fortify, Arcsight and TippingPoint are now being integrated into HP's IT security software portfolio.

In February 2011, HP announced it would acquire Vertica, a real-time analytics platform company and on March 22, 2011, HP completed its acquisition of Vertica. In Oct 2011, Autonomy Corporation, a provider of enterprise search and knowledge management solutions was acquired by HP and it quickly put into use its acquisitions, integrating Autonomy’s unstructured data analytics engine and Vertica’s fast-loading, real-time analytics database into a new Big Data Analytics platform – HP Next Generation Information Platform.