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HP today announced new solutions to help government entities reduce costs, secure information and transform business processes.

As part of HP’s presence at the 2009 FOSE Conference and Exhibition, the company unveiled the following offerings:

• HP Access Control Smartcard Solution for U.S. Government – enables tighter security options with imaging and printing network authentication for government employees;
• HP Automated Data Removal Solution – streamlines the redaction process of documents through HP multifunction printers and scanners;
• HP Government Case Processing Accelerator Solution – facilitates the routing of sensitive data directly into business applications;
• Voluntary Product Accessibility Template – assists federal agencies using HP Exstream in their compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; and
• HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 6400 and 8400 (EVA6400/8400) and the enhanced SAN Virtualization Services Platform 2.1 (SVSP 2.1) – expand HP’s storage virtualization portfolio.

“The federal government and its agencies are being asked to increase efficiency, enhance security and drive down costs, all while providing more effective services to citizens,” said John Tomesco, vice president, Worldwide Business Development and Marketing, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. “Only HP delivers the necessary components to create strategic solutions for such a wide range of government administration needs.”

PLANO, Texas – EDS, an HP company, today announced an enhanced set of services that use flexible pricing and tiered levels of service to contain costs and use less capital while laying the groundwork to emerge more competitive when the economy recovers.

“Clients need to contain costs and protect capital,” said Jeff Womack, vice president of Product Marketing at EDS, an HP company. “In response to market conditions, EDS is one of the only global service providers to offer clients more buying options with greater visibility and control over expenses.”

Applications Management Services help clients prioritize technology investments
EDS Applications Management Services now offer new pricing options for tiered levels of service to give clients more control over costs while meeting the needs of the business. This flexible pricing enables clients to choose higher service levels for critical applications and lower service levels for less-strategic applications. Prices for these scalable services are predictable and provide variable components based on client needs. The unique pricing accompanies a full range of support services that are available for selected applications or the client’s entire applications portfolio. This innovative approach to managing services maximizes applications business value and reduces overall applications maintenance costs by up to 40 percent.

LAS VEGAS, March 2, 2009 - HP today expanded its professional printing portfolio as part of its effort to target the estimated $663 billion page-value opportunity for the global graphic arts market and accelerate the analog to digital transformation.⁽¹⁾

Unveiled at the 2009 PMA tradeshow in booth F150, HP’s comprehensive portfolio of digital printing solutions is designed to help creative and technical professionals explore new business opportunities – from gallery-quality prints to technical drawings and proofing.

There has been a significant shift in the way organizations think about the cost and value associated with printing and imaging. In view of the findings of leading industry analysts such as Gartner and IDC (see Fast Facts on page 4), organizations are eager to trim document output costs, which are now estimated at between one and three percent of revenue. Productivity expenditures are thought to be even greater, with IT professionals typically spending up to 15 percent of their time on printing and related issues. These experts and others suggest that savings of as much as 30 percent of overall printing costs can be obtained through active management of the document output environment.

Because it pays to get rightsizing right
A growing majority of companies are turning to rightsizing as a strategy to optimize their document output fleet. It’s a move that is beginning to have a significant impact on fleet size. Yet smaller fleets do not automatically add up to lower management and support costs. The failure lies not in rightsizing as a strategy, but rather in the mistaken way some companies approach its implementation. Lacking a sound life-cycle management plan, such companies steadfastly hang on to document output devices until they are completely inoperable rather than invest in newer technology. Today it is not uncommon to find that as much as 50 percent of the devices in an organization’s printer fleet are more than five years old. Considering that supply costs for older workgroup printers can be as much as twice those for today’s multifunction printers (MFPs), this effort to stretch initial capital investment, and thereby maximize ROI, leaves many organizations spending more, not less. Thanks to recent technological advances, many newer output devices now offer significant savings in supplies and energy costs while enhancing productivity.

Think about it
An important shift is occurring in the way organizations work with information. To understand the impact of this change we need only to look at our own work habits. When was the last time you printed a document, made a large number of copies of it to share with your colleagues and then filed the original in a filing cabinet? While these practices are not unheard of, they are becoming increasingly uncommon. These days it is far more likely that the business information we require comes to us electronically to be printed and stored as needed. Since it is generally more convenient (and just as economical) to print a smaller number of originals than it is to make copies of a single original, many of us often choose printing over copying.

There is no question that working people are changing their print, copy and fax behaviors. Yet in many organizations the hardware infrastructure that enables these workflows is not keeping pace with the change. For example, if your organization’s printers can’t support regular, small print runs, but you have a high-speed copier that no one is using, it is likely that you are spending too much on copier maintenance and overtaxing your printers.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 29, 2009 – HP today announced the launch of a compact, low-cost imaging platform for continuous-form, label and flexible media color printers based on HP’s patented Scalable Printing Technology (SPT).

The new HP Scanning Imager 1100 for the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) market offers fast color printing at speeds up to 3.4 inches per second with low intervention rates, low running costs and high efficiency. HP partners will show the first end-user products to incorporate this imager at several upcoming events for the label and packaging, petroleum exploration and geoscience industries.

“The HP Scanning Imager 1100 offers key enhancements that take fast, low-cost and high-quality SPT inkjet imaging to new markets in ways that emphasize HP’s abiding commitment to customer success for OEMs and their clients,” said Kathy Tobin, vice president and general manager, HP Specialty Printing Systems (SPS).

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 22, 2009 – HP today announced it has completed its most successful year in the graphic arts industry to date, building on increased sales activity, leads and interest from its first announcement of new-platform technologies in March, through the debut of those solutions at drupa in May, to subsequent fulfillment of sales in the months following the show.

HP’s organizational unit serving this industry, the Graphics Solutions Business (GSB), made a series of significant announcements during 2008, including the integration of acquired assets from NUR Macroprinters and MacDermid ColorSpan, the unveiling of a new HP Inkjet Web Press and Latex Ink/Wide Scan platforms utilizing HP Scalable Printing Technology (SPT), and the announcement of a new HP SmartStream graphic arts workflow and next-generation HP Indigo digital press models.

During the year, HP has extended its market stance as the leading provider of digital color printing solutions to the graphic arts. For the HP Indigo business, worldwide page growth exceeded 30 percent year over year.

HP today announced industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has positioned it in the Leaders Quadrant of its “Magic Quadrant for MFPs and Printers” report.⁽¹⁾

The Gartner Magic Quadrant positions vendors based on their “ability to execute” and their “completeness of vision.”

According to the analyst firm, vendors are assessed on weighted criteria, including products or services, sales execution and pricing, market responsiveness and track record, marketing execution, customer experience, offering strategy, business model, and geographic strategy.

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Ascent Capture accelerates business processes by collecting paper documents, forms and e-documents, transforming them into accurate, retrievable information, and delivering it all into your business applications and databases. It offers unmatched compatibility with scanners and other capture devices, plus content and document management systems, workflow applications and databases. No matter what hardware or enterprise applications you choose now or in the future, you can count on Ascent Capture to ensure consistent capture, indexing and validation of your important information.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 24, 2008 – HP today announced that its expanded portfolio of innovative large-format printing solutions led to a highly successful exhibition for the company at SGIA ’08, held in Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 15–18.

A significant number of purchase contracts were completed at the show, demonstrating the high demand for HP’s new products, including the HP Scitex FB7500 Printer, HP Scitex FB950 Printer, HP Scitex TJ8550 Printer and the HP Designjet L65500 Printer. The HP stand featured the industry’s broadest portfolio of large-format printing technologies and solutions and was one of the largest booths at the exposition.