Hewlett-Packard Co. is offering more services supporting SAP AG's service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to IT as part of the companies' increasingly close relationship.

On Monday, HP agreed to make available a variety of new services to support users as they move to adopt SAP's Enterprise SOA (ESOA) approach.

The services are designed to help very large global SAP customers as they migrate from older versions of the vendor's R/3 applications to the newer SOA-focused mySAP offerings, according to Tim Treat, manager of worldwide packaged applications for enterprise applications services at HP.