As of September 1, 2017, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) completed the spin-merge of a significant portion of its software assets with Micro Focus to create the world's seventh-largest software company. In this brief, Forrester lays out the two areas that will determine the new firm's success — development and operations (DevOps) automation and enterprise service management (ESM) — and crystallizes the three demands that I&O leaders must make of the new Micro Focus.