In a close race among more than 50 nominated products, HP OpenView Operations for Windows narrowly defeated Aelita Software's InTrust to take the award for Best Monitoring and Alerting Software. This award is HP OpenView Operations for Windows' second Readers' Choice award in the Best Systems Management Products category. A reader from Oakland told us why: "HP OpenView Operations for Windows is simple and easy to use."
The software offers comprehensive event management, performance monitoring, and automated alerting capability. HP OpenView Operations for Windows' service map lets you see into your IT service infrastructure and gives you the ability to construct and customize service views. You can define user roles to restrict access and monitor only those portions of the IT infrastructure that you specify.