In a field of 35 contenders, HP OpenView Operations for Windows took the honors for Best Application and Operations Management Tool. Readers lauded the product's ease of use and out-of-the-box functionality.
HP OpenView Operations for Windows is a distributed management solution that monitors, controls, and generates reports about your Windows environment. The product natively supports event management, performance monitoring, and automated alerting, reporting, and graphing for Windows systems, middleware, and applications. Integrated performance and availability management let you automatically deploy rules and policies, respond to events and messages, and generate a color-coded system topology map to simplify and more effectively target troubleshooting. The product provides effective cross-firewall management functionality from a Web browser and includes Smart Plug-Ins for quick product implementation.