Vesna Soraic
HP Propel
Product Marketing Manager

We are living in a digital era, where software applications are starting to rule our businesses—and our lives. We as customers, citizens and employees want applications that aren’t just functional, secure and efficient but are also increasingly engaging and entertaining. We have a need to be delighted, and our expectations are always increasing. These degrees of entertainment and delight are relative and subjective, and for us in the software industry and IT, this is job security. We will need to constantly create new gigs and make sure that "the show must go on” to keep users happy.

But what does this mean in practice? Software application architecture is receiving wide-population recognition and awareness like never before. This awareness means that it is at least equally (or in reality much more) important as the application design. Today’s modern applications are very composite and granular; they are based on micro-services in contrast to monolithic applications which every IT department still owns from the past.

Micro-service architecture and their loose coupling structure in applications ensures that the applications can be changed quickly with minimal impact on surrounding applications’ parts. In addition IT needs an integration platform that is open, scalable and easily configurable. The platform needs to allow easy plug-and-play of the older systems of record without impacting the user experience. With micro services, APIs, integration platform and modern portal, nevertheless how many vintage applications you have, your IT show can begin.

We created HP Propel with apps engagement, entertainment and constant-changing in mind. We understand the pace of business and we want to empower you to keep pace.

HP Propel 2.01

HP Propel 2.01 is now available. Here is the subset of some of the new and enhanced capabilities that this version offers:

• Self-system diagnostics—As you know, HP Propel is created from micro services with built-in resilience and has many moving parts. The diagnostics feature allows administrators to quickly see the performance status of all components in the system, such as memory and deadlocks, services availability, request statistics, traffic and configuration checks. Detailed graphs also show the status of the interconnected systems which reduces the time and costs of running HP Propel in production.

• Enhanced request of behalf—Helps users select from a list of allowed individuals and roles to order for.

• Cloud service subscription apps—New enhancements allow the user to take the service instance action.

• Improved native catalog—Administrators can create the offerings directly in Propel native catalog even easier than before.

• Easier configuration options—Administrators can now configure and modify suppliers for their organizations via the web UI.

HP Propel empowers IT to act as a service broker so that IT can remain the organization’s leader in technology selection and adoption. Watch this video and see how you can develop systems of engagement to enhance interactions between people and complex technology and significantly increase your users’ satisfaction. Learn more in this video: http://bit.ly/1QMsPsQ.