Kintana Information

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Mercury Interactive completed the acquisition of Kintana, Inc. on August 18, 2003 and re-branded the Kintana product line as Mercury IT Governance (ITG), thereby discarding a brand name that was unique, easily googleable, and had achieved critical mass in terms of name recognition.

Mercury in turn were acquired in July 2006 by Hewlett Packard who re-re-branded the Kintana product line as HP PPM (Project and Portfolio Management), a name which vastly understates the breadth and capability of the product.

As this process is presumably going to continue, and my capacity for remembering and spelling these ever longer aliases is limited, we shall use the Kintana name on this site.

Overview. Dave's quick guide to the application modules.

Portfolio and Project Management. The information agreggated in the portfolio data pool can be viewed as a super project management system, but the objectives of portfolio and project management are quite distinct.

If you are trying to locate information and resources on the Kintana - IT Governance - Project and Portfolio Management product line your options are either the official Hewlett Packard site, Google(tm) searches, or, ahem, this site.

The official starting point is the Demand and Portfolio Management page.

This is a very shy page. It has two condensed links to '[+] White Papers' and '[+] HP Project and Portfolio Management Center links'. You'll have to click the second link to expand it before you'll finally get to expose the PPM module links.

Clicking those will get you to other pages, and from there you'll need to register with the download center.

Basically it's been made about as difficult as reasonably possible for you to discover anything about PPM.

Which is why I suggest you use the Overview. link above.

Getting useful search results for the 'Mercury IT Governance' or 'HP Project and Portfolio Management PPM' brands is quite difficult because unlike the Kintana brand name these are not distinctive keywords. You're likely to get an awful lot of parts per million results.

Google does not seem to bring back hits on the pdf files on the HP site. Why i'm not sure as on other searches Google routinely bring back pdf files, but it does seem to be so.

This 'Googling for Kintana Information' article suggests possible search strategies.

The Customer Support Site. This site has to be your first stop when looking for information or researching problems. The site includes a knowledge base with problems and solutions that you can look up by keyword, complete on-line documentation, downloadable customer contributed extensions such as portlets, and a problem tracking system.

Forums, Discussion Groups, Blogs, Wiki's. There's not much out there but this is what I can find.

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are trademarks of Kintana, Mercury Interactive Corporation, and Hewlett Packard Corporation respectively.