HP taps new Microsoft Office System to deliver solutions and services
that streamline business operations
Posted: 7 November 2003
HP Middle East announced a portfolio of six solutions and services
based on the new Microsoft Office System that help streamline business
processes and improve collaboration for businesses of all sizes.
The offerings, built on Web services, help customers improve organisational
productivity by providing access to critical business data and integration
with business processes.
The solutions and services help enterprises take advantage of the
HP Adaptive Enterprise strategy by enhancing their responsiveness
to market changes and customer demand.
Enterprises can gain competitive advantage and increased business
agility by enhancing worker productivity through improved collaboration
and information sharing among employees, partners and customers.
Small-and medium-size businesses can gain greater ease of use, reliability
and more service and support at competitive prices.
For businesses of all sizes, HP solutions – built upon industry-standard
platforms from Microsoft and HP – help strengthen the link
between business and IT. These solutions help reduce bottom-line
costs, improve information access and enhance automation of business
processes, collaboration and decision-making, while leveraging existing
investments in desktop and enterprise applications.
Building on HP’s expertise with Microsoft .NET technologies,
Microsoft Office, SharePoint 2003, Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft
Windows Server 2003, the portfolio is available worldwide through
more than 1,500 HP Services professional consultants with expertise
in Microsoft Office System technologies as well as Web services.
These specialists are part of a worldwide team of 23,000 Microsoft-trained
HP professionals.
“Our breadth and depth of services and solutions built on
Microsoft technology will enable customers to adapt and respond
to change quickly, with improved collaboration and decision-making,”
said Mike Smith, General Manager for HP Services Middle East. “Backed
by 20 years of experience designing, developing and delivering reliable,
agile, adaptive business solutions with Microsoft, HP is the brand
of choice to deliver Microsoft Office System-based information worker
productivity solutions to global enterprises and small- and medium-size
businesses.”
Included in the portfolio are:
• HP Correspondence and Case Management, using the HP Document
Information System framework, builds on the Microsoft Office System
technologies, including Office 2003, SharePoint 2003 and InfoPath.
The solution provides comprehensive workflow routing capabilities,
addressing organizational requirements for managing, controlling
and sharing organizational data and document tracking.
• HP Sales and Marketing Collateral Management Solution provides
sales and marketing teams with enhanced collaboration, automated
content creation, centrally managed content re-use and support for
mobile professionals utilising multiple devices, including the HP
Tablet PC.
• HP Collaboration Portal Solution builds on HP’s leadership
with SharePoint Products and Technologies to deliver highly available,
highly scalable enterprise portals. HP has done extensive performance
characterisation and testing of this architecture on HP ProLiant
servers.
• HP Small Business Network Solution allows small businesses
to quickly and easily benefit from server-based technology. HP ProLiant
servers in combination with Microsoft Windows Small Business Server
2003 offer an integrated solution featuring fully functioning collaboration,
Intranet and remote access technology.
• HP Review Service advises Exchange 2003 customers on ways
to improve response time, availability and performance, and ensure
a highly available IT infrastructure.
• HP Mobility Pilot Deployment Service provides businesses
a low-risk, pilot implementation and introduction to the benefits
of mobility solutions based on the robust architecture of Exchange
2003. This service helps customers evaluate the advantages of an
enterprise-messaging environment by designing and implementing a
secure mobile pilot environment, documenting what’s been done
and training staff.
Customers benefit from HP solutions
The new Microsoft Office System, offering unprecedented levels of
XML-based capabilities, enables development of flexible, comprehensive
and integrated solutions. HP is already working with customers who
have selected HP as their preferred partner for Microsoft Office
System solutions and services.
“HP has an impressive record in infrastructure and Web services
solutions using Microsoft’s technologies,” said Joe
Eschbach, corporate vice president of the Information Worker Product
Management Group, Microsoft Corp. “With these new solutions
and services, HP is building a strong foundation to help customers
derive superior business value from the Microsoft Office System.”
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and
institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure,
personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging
and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium businesses.
For the last four quarters, HP revenue totalled $71.3 billion.
More information about HP is available at www.hp.com.
About HP Middle East
HP is the largest IT company in the Middle East employing about
500 people in the region. HP has been present in the Middle East
since 1968, and opened its first regional office in 1994 and has
offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah and Khobar, Cairo and
Ramallah servicing the GCC, the Levant and Egypt.
For more information see www.hp.com/me.
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