HP Information Management Software

HP Information Management Software
Company type	Division
Industry	Software
Products	Data protection, eDiscovery, Information Analytics, Archiving, Enterprise Content Management, Marketing Optimization, HP Vertica Analytics Platform, HAVEn platform
Parent	HP Software Division

Adapted from the English Wikipedia article HP Information Management Software, available under CC BY-SA 4.0Updated 8 August 2025

HP Information Management Software represents a suite of software solutions developed by the HP Software Division aimed at organizing, securing, retrieving, acquiring, managing, and preserving data. This division also provides advanced information analytics tools designed to tackle the increasing complexities businesses encounter due to expanding data volumes. According to the University of California, Berkeley, global data generation grows at an annual rate of 30%. An article published in Information Management in April 2010 noted that almost 90% of companies link reduced performance to data growth challenges, with many reporting application and database expansions exceeding 50% each year.

The majority of HP’s offerings in information management and analytics are delivered through its HP Autonomy unit, which was acquired in 2011. Autonomy focuses on handling unstructured data. Additionally, HP strengthened its structured data analytics capabilities through the 2011 acquisition of Vertica.

In June 2013, HP introduced the HAVEn platform, an analytics solution designed to process big data by integrating both structured and unstructured information.

Products

In April 2011, the HP Software Division updated its HP Information Management Software lineup by improving products such as the HP TRIM Records Management System, HP Data Protector, Integrated Archive Platform, Database Archiving, and HP Storage Essentials. Alongside these enhancements, IT consulting and professional services were also expanded. This portfolio provided organizations across business and government sectors with a comprehensive framework for managing information.

Following the acquisition of Autonomy Corporation, HP broadened its software offerings in information management and analytics to encompass data protection, eDiscovery, information analytics, unified access to information, archiving solutions, enterprise content management, and marketing optimization tools. By 2013, support for cloud services and functionalities tailored to marketing and call center operations were incorporated.

Data protection

HP’s suite for data protection includes solutions that safeguard servers, virtual servers, remote or branch offices, and endpoint devices. Notable products within this category are HP Connected Backup, HP LiveVault, and HP Data Protector.

HP Data Protector provides automated backup and recovery processes from disk or tape media to guarantee continuous business operations around the clock. Its scalability ranges from single-server environments to large-scale distributed enterprises managing thousands of clients and handling up to 100,000 sessions daily.

eDiscovery

HP’s eDiscovery offerings focus on meeting legal electronic discovery and compliance demands. Following the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), these solutions facilitate the capture, classification, preservation, retrieval, analysis, and recovery of information. As part of the HP Autonomy Legal and Compliance Performance Suite, these tools empower organizations to identify risks, enforce data governance policies, collaborate effectively on information management tasks, and comply with both national and international regulations.

Analytics

Information analytics entails gathering and examining data to uncover patterns and trends that increasingly support informed decision-making. Powered by HP IDOL (Intelligent Data Operating Layer), HP Information Analytics enables enterprises to derive insights from a variety of formats including audio recordings, textual content, and video files. Utilizing sophisticated pattern recognition technology, HP IDOL interprets core concepts across free text documents, videos, audio streams, images, social media platforms, and web content. Unlike conventional keyword-based search systems, it retrieves results based on conceptual relevance rather than exact term matches—allowing users to discover deeper insights beyond straightforward queries.

Archiving

HP delivers archiving solutions as enterprise-grade software available on-premises, through cloud services, or via hybrid deployments. These offerings assist organizations in effectively handling data retention and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Enterprise content management

The Autonomy ECM Suite from HP offers a robust enterprise content management system that enables organizations to access, interpret, govern, and act upon various data formats while adhering to internal guidelines and regulatory requirements. The most recent release, version 9.0, became available in January 2013. Additionally, in October 2013, HP Exstream was integrated into the HP Autonomy division within the HP Software Division, enhancing content management with advanced customer communications management solutions.

Marketing optimization

HP Autonomy's Marketing Optimization portfolio encompasses tools for contact center administration, marketing analytics, rich media handling, web experience management, website optimization, and search engine marketing strategies.

In October 2013, HP introduced the Digital Marketing Hub designed to dynamically segment customers, develop prescriptive models aligning segments with targeted campaigns, and enable real-time engagement across advertising platforms, contact centers, mobile devices, print media, social networks, and web channels.

HP Vertica

The HP Vertica Analytics Platform is a column-oriented, grid-based system engineered to manage extensive and rapidly expanding data sets while providing swift query responses for data warehouses and other applications demanding high query performance.

HAVEn

Launched in June 2013, the HAVEn platform is tailored for big data analytics involving petabytes of both structured and unstructured information. It also identifies duplicate data to optimize storage costs by enabling efficient retention or deletion. HAVEn integrates the open-source Hadoop framework with technologies acquired from Autonomy, Vertica, and ArcSight.

User groups

Although not a conventional user group, the ITRC functions as an online forum dedicated to HP Software and Solutions products. The HP Software Solutions Community was publicly introduced in April 2010, merging previously separate software-related communities. In June 2011, HP Software unveiled the Discover Performance community along with an online resource hub aimed at IT leaders and CIOs.

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