HP OpenView software provided large-scale system and network management of an organization's IT infrastructure.

It included optional modules from HP as well as third-party management software, which connected within a common framework and communicated with one another.

[4] In December 2005, it acquired Peregrine Systems with its IT asset and service management software and integrated it into HP OpenView.

(SPIs) — These are add-ons products for OpenView Operations for additional management capabilities: HP Configuration Management software, formerly Radia from Novadigm, is now part of HP Client Automation Software which is now owned by Accelerite, a product division of Persistent Systems.

While it is not an actual "user group", the ITRC is an online forum about former OpenView and HP Software products.