Usually when someone tells you they’re involved with a “special interest group”, all sorts of horrific possibilities spring to mind and you may begin to fear your special interest friend is involved with some shady goings on. At the very least you assume they’ve become a model railway enthusiast.

It is therefore with some trepidation that I announce that Westbury has started its very own special interest group… and hastily clarify that it’s the HP Service Manage Special Interest Group (SIG) in conjunction with Vivit, the HP user group. Not a single narrow-gauge hopper wagon in sight.

Vivit (http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/) is a  non-profit corporation founded in 1993 (as OpenView Forum) by customers of Hewlett-Packard’s Software products to represent the interests of HP Software customers, developers, and partners world-wide. It operates through a network of local chapters that bring together users of HP’s wide variety of products into regional groups, and through Special Interest Groups, which are for Vivit members worldwide, but which focus on specific areas of interest.

The HP Service Manager SIG  is a new group set up, by Westbury, to act as an information hub for all users of HP Service Manager, partners involved with Service Manager and anyone thinking about migrating to Service Manager. Although the SIG it is not home to experts on Service Manager, it is a place where you can be connected to those experts in just one click.

The website for the SIG is here: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/chapters.cfm?action=chapter&chapterid=186 and new members are welcomed with open arms.

We put together a little video to show everyone what the SIG is all about:

Tom