HP Launches State-of-the-Art Solutions for Emerging Businesses
Tailor made
solutions for Business, Education and Retail sectors
INDIA, Delhi, 23 February, 2010 – HP, the world’s largest IT company, today unveiled a series of state-of-the-art products and solutions specially designed to help over 8 million small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) in India leverage IT for business growth, achieve sustainability through green IT and create immersive experiences for better customer intimacy.
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The SMB sector accounts for 30 per cent of the total commercial IT spend in India. According to ICT market intelligence firm, IDC, the biggest market transformation the sector will experience in 2010 will be business’s attitudes toward technology, which will be increasingly viewed as integral to long-term success. *
“Businesses are constantly in a race
to think and react faster than others, more so in the year of
recovery”, said Chua Hwee Koon, Vice President, Mobile Business
Unit, Personal Systems Group, HP Asia Pacific and Japan. “As
organizations refresh their technology, it is imperative that
their investments in IT create business efficiencies, lower
total cost of ownership and allow them to scale quickly to match
business growth. Businesses that invest innovatively in
technology will be in the best position to take advantage of the
recovery. Innovation was the one currency that never lost its
value during the crisis.” |
1.
Leveraging IT for Business Growth
As new
technologies like cloud emerge and traditional technologies evolve, CIOs are
continuously looking to reduce the complexity of technology in the entire
enterprise, reduce total cost of ownership yet scale for business growth.
Through scalable solutions that are easy to manage
and focusing on enabling a secure mobile workforce,
CIOs can leverage IT for business
growth.
2.
Green IT for
Sustainability
Climate change is putting pressure on governments and businesses to reduce their carbon footprint. At the same time, businesses and governments need to collaborate easily beyond borders. HP is enabling collaboration while reducing carbon emissions with transformational technology like HP SkyRoom.
HP SkyRoom is an affordable HD videoconferencing software that offers live, real-time collaboration for face-to-face meetings to link people and their content. With HP SkyRoom, air travel can be reduced as distance and time zones can be bridged for business professionals to meet and collaborate virtually.
In 2010, the majority of enterprises will spend
more on power than on hardware according to IDC. Costs related to energy
consumption have become a business constraint for growth. As an
environmental leader, HP is leading the way to help businesses manage power
costs with products that have
energy-efficient features.
3.
Immersive experiences
for Better Customer Intimacy
HP also showcased how enhanced customer intimacy can be achieved by transforming traditional retail environments into enriched retail environments through the Points of Attraction; Entry; Consideration and Purchase with its portfolio of digital signage and retail Point-of-Sale products and solutions.
Apart from this, businesses also benefit from HP’s unrivalled ecosystem of industry leading channel partners, technology partners and business consulting and systems integration partners. In India, for example, the company currently has over 3,500 channel partners comprising of Premium Business Partners, Business Partners and Registered Resellers.
In addition, HP Total Care offers company’s a range of free and fee-based support, services, options and programs for every stage of their computer’s life: from choosing it to configuring it, to protecting it, to tuning it, and ultimately recycling it.
The HP Smart Finance in association with ICICI Bank takes this support a step ahead by enabling customers to get the most from his/her IT budget. It makes technology solutions easy to own and easy on the balance sheet, enabling the customer to focus financial and other resources on managing and growing its business.
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*India ICT Market Top 10 Predications 2010