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Live from Palo Alto – HP’s Mark Hurd and Vyomesh Joshi Launch New IPG Offerings

sherristuart — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:20:00 GMT

Mike Feldman
Vice President and General Manager
Managed Enterprise Solutions
IPG-Americas

The exciting news out of HP just keeps coming!

Right now I am at HP headquarters in Palo Alto, where some BIG news is being announced out of HP’s Imaging and Printing Group by our very own Mark Hurd and Vyomesh Joshi.

Today, in front of industry leaders, analysts, customers, partners and media worldwide, HP announced new offerings – including the expansion of its highly successful 25-year relationship with Canon, new channel programs, and an unmatched imaging and printing portfolio to help businesses streamline and integrate paper-intensive processes with digital workflows.

I think it’s pretty clear that, with all of the building we’ve done over the past few years and with the momentum we have going, HP is clearly the only partner that can drive workflow solutions based on its expertise across IT and imaging and printing. With our balanced combination of products, services and solutions, we are READY NOW to help our customers transform business processes and drive down costs by optimizing the infrastructure, managing the environment and improving document workflows.

Pretty cool news today. We announced HP’s new Global Business Unit, Managed Enterprise Solutions (MES), will be led by Bruce Dahlgren WW and I have the honor of leading HP's MES business in the Americas. We have extended the recently announced HP Printing Payback Guarantee to the EMEA, Latin America and Canada regions. And, the expanded HP and Canon alliance provides MPS customers with access to the broadest portfolio of single and multifunction devices. New channel program enhancements enable HP’s reseller partners to become even more competitive in the imaging and printing market.

All the news out of today’s press conference, on the heels of our announcement on July 13th, and the incredible energy our team, our partners and our customers are feeling --- even in this economy! --- should be some indication of exactly who the enterprise printing mojo is with these days. Who? HP - the only partner that can drive workflow solutions based on its expertise across IT and imaging and printing.

If you didn’t get a chance to check out the live replay of the press conference, you can hear a replay for yourself. Also, join the ongoing conversation on Twitter via the HP_IPG handle and #HPBizPrint hashtag.

Innovations in Enterprise Document Automation: HP Launches HP Exstream 7.0

sherristuart — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:50:00 GMT

Mike Feldman
Vice President and General Manager
Enterprise Sales and Services
IPG-Americas

Great HP news today! If you will recall, just a little over a year ago, HP acquired Exstream Software, the industry’s market-leading enterprise document automation technology.

Well, the news just crossed the wire that HP has just launched HP Exstream 7.0 – with more than 250 enhancements – to help enterprises drive business results and increase ROI through vastly improved customer communications.

Organizations across all industries are facing numerous challenges in today’s complex business environment. On one hand, improving efficiency and retaining customers have never been more important; on the other hand, the pressure to reduce costs is unrelenting. HP has put in place an unmatched integrated workflow solutions portfolio and end-to-end suite of imaging and printing offerings to help our customers meet these challenges head on. Adding to this, HP Exstream 7.0 offers a single solution for design through delivery of any type of document across the enterprise.

HP Exstream will also now be offered through the HP Managed Print Services (MPS) portfolio, allowing even more enterprises to provide any type of customer communications, regardless of complexity, variability, or output channel — including high-volume, on-demand, and interactive document applications.

Check out a demo of HP Exstream at PRINT 09 in Chicago from September 11 - 16, and be sure to follow the HP action at PRINT 09 at the HP Enterprise Software Booth #6658 or on the HP_IPG Twitter handle.

Smart Tech Leaders Secure Printers

sherristuart — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:54:00 GMT

Mike Feldman
Vice President and General Manager
Enterprise Sales and Services
IPG-Americas

We know that businesses spend untold time and money waging war daily against PC and network attacks. Smart CIOs, IT and facility managers are now looking beyond disk drives and databases, and beginning to tackle the huge challenge of securing business documents, printer fleets and the information streaming through their document workflow systems. Less obvious? Yes - but also critical to the health and welfare of your corporation.

At HP, we are beginning to see our more forward-thinking customers include document security within their RFPs. These technology leaders are just like you - faced with shrinking budgets and hard decisions: Where do I cut? Where do I spend? Faced with these hard choices, it is clear to me that the smart ones are placing a premium on security of their entire IT environment – including their imaging and printing infrastructure. They know that it is imperative that the information flowing through their enterprise printing fleet is secure.

If you haven’t started to address this nagging concern, I simply do not think you can afford to lag behind any longer.

The resources are in place to help guide you through the process.

HP can help you address imaging and printing security threats, risks and vulnerabilities, compliance and privacy concerns, and how to implement a secure environment. As a first step, I urge you to visit the HP site dedicated to imaging and printing security.

Also, Gartner analyst Don Dixon has released a new report, “Securing Your MFP and Printer Is More Relevant Than Ever,”* a great overview of the steps enterprises can take to alleviate document security concerns. I urge you all to take a look.

*Gartner - Publication Date: 12 June 2009 ID Number: G00168086

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Innovative HP and UPS Partnership

Tac Anderson — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:03:00 GMT

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Hatem Mostafa,
V.P. of Inkjet Systems,
Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), HP

When UPS approached us about creating a solution that would help them streamline their package scanning and labeling process, you can imagine that we were up to the challenge. Immediately we knew it was a natural partnership – UPS has historically adopted innovative technology as a leader in supply chain and logistics and HP brings years of IT experience and ground breaking innovations.

Today, I’m excited to announce that UPS is deploying our combination scanner and paperless printing device – the HP Handheld sp400 All-in-One – This groundbreaking device prints millions of sorting instructions in ink directly on packages without the use of labels.

The innovation behind this solution is just part of its success. With the HP Handheld sp400 All-in-One, UPS will experience increased efficiency and effectiveness at a lower cost, while reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.

Take a look at these statistics:

At a beta test in Orlando, where the HP Handheld sp400 All-in-One was being used for about 40,000 packages a day, it reduced errors to zero.
The device enables UPS to be more productive; saving approximately 92,456 hours per year.
UPS expects to decrease operational costs by more than $30 million by 2013.
The HP Handheld sp400 All-in-One will also help UPS reduce their environmental impact through paper and ink reduction. By eliminating all paper-based label printing for just one year, UPS expects to save 1,338 tons of paper and reduce their carbon emissions by 3,807 tons.

We’re excited that UPS and other companies will have the opportunity to incorporate this device into their business processes to become more efficient, improve workflow and reduce carbon footprint.

What products ignite your passion and produce an impact? Are there any initiatives either in your company or others that you’ve seen reduce carbon footprint and change behavior?

Check out more information about this announcement including a video co-produced by HP and UPS here and let me know your thoughts.

Technorati Tags: HP,UPS,Printing,Innovative,Solutions

Reaching your green fatigue threshold? HP's committed to the environment.

murradav — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:37:00 GMT

Alison Graves
Worldwide PR Manager for HP’s Enterprise Imaging and Printing Business

Are you beating yourself up for infractions like pitching a soda can in the trash or forgetting to bring your own travel coffee mug into Starbucks? If you answered yes, then you might be suffering from “Green Guilt.” Are you skeptical of every green marketing claim and more interested in the U.S. presidential election and Jamie Lynn Spears’ baby? Then you probably have “Green Fatigue.” The New York Times reports the green fatigue threshold has been reached. PR and marketing professionals are trying to figure out what to do about it as experts worry the trend will soon die off. “After 18 months, levels of concern on any issue tend to drop off,” said Jonathan Banks, business insight director in Britain at Nielson, in an interview with the Times.

According to PR industry e-zine, Bulldog Reporter, “The problem boils down to misleading and exaggerated environmental claims and ties by advertisers that have consumers caught on an overgrown lawn of green skepticism.” For example, the Times points out that The Advertising Standards Authority received 561 complaints from consumers about green claims in 410 ads in 2007, up from 117 complaints about 83 ads the year before.

Where does that leave HP? Our commitment to environmental stewardship isn’t just a passing phase – in fact, it’s built into our DNA as a company, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were pioneers in recognizing that beyond making a profit, a company has a responsibility to enrich the businesses, lives and communities of its customers, partners, employees and stakeholders. Sure, like almost everyone else, we amped up our green marketing in the last year, but our claims are very real. They not only relate to our own commitment to the environment, but also our work to support our enterprise customers green goals. And speaking of our own commitment: Last week HP’s Corvallis site was recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency as exemplary steward, for making efforts, both internally and externally, to go above and beyond legal requirements for protecting the environment. The Corvallis site has reduced the total amount of electricity use by 6 percent, accounting for 9.7 million megawatt-hours, and invests in 4.2 million megawatt-hours of renewable energy per year. Congratulations HP Corvallis!

HP's Carbon Footprint Calculator is Now Available

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:41:00 GMT

Michelle Price

Manager, Worldwide Environmental Strategic Marketing, Imaging and Printing Group

On May 22nd, HP’s Imaging and Printing Group made a huge environmental announcement. As part of the announcement, we introduced the HP Carbon Footprint Calculator and indicated that it’ll be available at the end of June. Well, it’s now available. It takes about a minute to load. Check it out and let us know your thoughts.

The HP Carbon Footprint Calculator for printing helps you compare the carbon footprint of an existing sample printer fleet to that of a new, optimized LaserJet-based fleet. The calculator helps you understand how you can reduce your impact on the environment. It assesses printer energy and paper use, the carbon impact of usage and associated monetary costs based on geographical energy assessments.

If you are interested in learning more about the recent HP environmental announcement, click here or check out Mike Feldman’s blog about the announcement.

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