Hewlett-Packard has launched an armada of enterprise products and solutions designed to meet the requirements of four key vertical sectors, namely education, financial services, healthcare and manufacturing.
At the company’s Odyssey event held recently, Armand Pascual, HP’s Vice President and General Manager, Printing Services, SEA, said the company’s priority is to make IT work for their customers by leveraging its core strengths: new form factor, multi-user environments, customer-driven innovation, and relevant design.
For the education sector, the company introduced the HP Classroom Manager designed exclusively for academic institutions to integrate technology and learning. This solution intensifies learning as it empowers teachers to monitor and control student computers, administer feedback, and annotate student screens for real time collaboration. It enhances students learning with collaborative sharing of messages, group chats, Web sites, documents and others.
With HP Classroom Manager, a teacher can develop lesson plans, and monitor if students are following the lesson plan or are struggling and being left behind. A user can also maintain a record of all contents and discussions with the solution. It can also help teachers evaluate student comprehension with its formative assessment tools – digital tests or question-and-answer quizzes to ensure collaborative learning and instantly tracts student scores in real-time.
Intended for the sensitive financial services industry, the company launched the HP Thin Client, a solid state PC that is the perfect alternative for the traditional desktop for financial institutions, and with its easy control-management applications, it can improve document ecosystem.
With HP Thin Client, there is no need to configure and it is a best access device to be used in a virtualized setup. It delivers added security to control data leakage in loan application processing.
Other devices designed for the financial services segment include the HP Flow Multifunction Printer (MFP) which provides accurate scanning. It can be easily accessed and together with security solutions, data will be secured or protected.
HP also offers the Defective Media Retention (DMR) and security solutions (BIOS-based data protection and software-based identity protection) for both desktops and laptops. While DMR cleans drives of sensitive data, its security solutions have the capability to protect data, the device itself and the identity of the user.
As technology plays a vital role in the healthcare industry, HP has solutions and services that can help improve patients’ health outcomes and optimize costs, from admission to diagnosis. With a complete HP ecosystem, the staff in hospitals can work more efficiently on workstations with low acoustic noise fans, making them as quiet as possible while at the same time not contributing to the increasing room temperature.
For hygienic purposes, the HP access control Smartcard solution was introduced to trap dirt and bacteria without the need for card swipe slots. Besides, the HP Elite One 800 Touch AIO’s glass surface allows for easy cleaning using alcohol-based sanitizing agents.
To enhance works on concept design, product design and model analyses and other design models for the manufacturing sector, HP boasts an infrastructure specifically for these purposes. The company has HP Workstations that can run a large number of ISV applications and are equipped with ECC Memory to avoid soft errors.
The HP Workstation is designed to meet the demands of professionals who work with large and complex datasets, and intricate 3D models. A workstation user can improve research and development collaboration with its HP’s Remote Graphic Solutions (RGS).
HP RGS efficiently transmits complex 2D and 3D images from a sender system across standard computer networks to remote users.
Win-win situation
“We believe that with the 2014 product lineup for enterprise customers, it will be a win-win situation not only for our partner community but for Philippine businesses as well given the benefits of these new technologies to their business operations,” said HP Printing and Personal Systems Country General Manager Albert Mateo.
Mateo also announced HP’s plans for the Philippines this year which revolve around a vision of providing end-to-end solutions and delight customers with the world’s best connected experiences. He also mentioned that the company’s objective is to be the preferred brand, partner of choice and the place where people achieve growth.
Mateo said their plan for personal systems is to grow its core commercial enterprise business for the following sectors: education, business process outsourcing, government and the financial services. For their printing systems, some of their plans include affordable print, and accelerate laser multifunction printer growth. It is also their plans to increase GTM capacity and effectiveness.
