HP unveiled three facilities in Cupertino in California, and Singapore and Bangalore in India, as part of a $500 million investment to deliver world-class service-oriented architecture (SOA) to enterprise customers.

Introduced at the HP Technology Forum, the three HP SOA Competency Centres are comprehensive experience centres enabling HP, its customers and its partners to pilot and evaluate SOA technologies, solutions and implementations. The centres will also showcase HP’s capabilities in IT architecture, management, security and governance.

SOA is an approach to delivering IT services in a secure and manageable way that uses loosely connected, reusable and standards-based technology that can be quickly aligned to changing business needs.The opening of the three SOA Competency Centres brings HP’s total to five worldwide, with two additional centres located in Sophia Antipolis, France, and Tokyo.

“HP delivers top-to-bottom SOA offerings,” said Deborah Nelson, senior vice-president, Technology Solutions Group, HP. “These centres allow customers around the world to experience first-hand how to apply HP’s extensive SOA capabilities to real-world business challenges and reach their competitive or organisational goals.”