Office Productivity with New Workflow Solutions to resolve Complex Business Issues

Offerings streamline processes, mitigate risk and enable mobile workers

Dubai, UAE, June 14, 2011 -The market is emerging with new imaging and printing solutions and devices designed to help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and enterprise organizations enhance employee productivity, both in the office and on-the-go. 

 "Customers need a partner that can help them solve complex business issues," said Amin Mortazavi, General Manager, Imaging & Printing Group, HP Middle East. "Our new technologies and innovations are designed to transform paper-intense processes into simple digital workflows, allowing businesses to identify new opportunities for growth."

By making strategic decisions about their imaging and printing investments - including streamlining paper-intense processes - businesses can improve office efficiencies and uncover new revenue streams.

"In recent years, IT organizations have been under tremendous stress to control and reduce costs while also investing in business process innovation," said Jeff Hayes, president of InfoTrends, a market research and strategic consulting firm. "Successful organizations realize they need to strategically invest across their entire IT infrastructure including business printing."

Today's announcement includes:

• Immediate availability of HP ePrint Enterprise on iPhone devices and the announcement of May 2011 availability on Android smartphones.⁽¹⁾
• Expanding HP solutions suitable for the enterprise but scaled for SMBs and delivered by channel solutions partners.
• New and enhanced multifunction printers ideal for the office environment and featuring ePrint capabilities.

Extending HP solutions to SMBs

HP solutions previously only available to HP's enterprise customers are now available through select channel partners. These HP trained and certified partners will offer a portfolio of printing and imaging applications. New applications include;

• HP ePrint Enterprise - For businesses with on-the-go workers who need to access and use content from their smartphones, HP ePrint Enterprise improves productivity through mobile access to print without data ever leaving a secure network.⁽²⁾
• HP Access Control (HP AC) Printing Solutions - For businesses that need a more secure, less wasteful print environment, HP Access Control - recently enhanced with new features - delivers cost controls, security functions and simple operation.

Scalable Solutions that Drive Growth for the SMB Customer

• Solutions Competence Centre: designed as a single point of contact for channel partners to enable and drive the development of their solutions sales assets. The Centre brings together key competencies of solutions integrators, independent software vendors and HP to offer HP channel partners a complete, quick and effective expertise package around HP Printing Software Solutions. This resource will be available in EMEA for partners from May 1, 2011.
• HP Announces an enhancement to HP QuickPage: a simplified contractual print service offering that addresses the SMB customer's need for predictable print costs and minimal administration with one complete agreement covering hardware, installation, supplies and support. Today´s enhancement brings the zero up-front commitment on printed/copied page volumes as well as an expansion of the current portfolio to cover the most requested HP Printing devices.

SMBs also benefit from downloadable solutions that further streamline document workflows and processes.

• The HP Web-Connected Business App, accessed through a printer's touchscreen, is designed to increase productivity with improved document workflows.⁽³⁾ The latest business app from HP includes the ability to print business forms through the DocStoc app.
• The HP LaserJet MFP Wizard Console is a set of tools on select HP LaserJet MFPs that help SMBs manage and streamline their document handling processes. The wizards make it easy for users to setup send-to-email and send-to-folder workflows in order to efficiently create and distribute scanned documents.

Partners and solutions to accelerate business processes for the enterprise

The HP Solutions Business Partner (SBP) program combines a broad imaging and printing portfolio, a visionary platform strategy and document management expertise with solutions from a wide range of the industry's top software partners. 

• Hyland joins the HP SBP program as a Platinum partner. HP will be selling Hyland's solution OnBase, a comprehensive enterprise content management suite. The two companies will streamline processes by capturing electronic and paper-based documents, integrating that information into front- or back-end business applications, automating workflows and enabling instant access to data stored in OnBase's secure and centrally managed repository. 
• Nuance also joins the HP SBP program as a Platinum partner and offers a document capture solution at the scanning device that securely integrates with an intuitive user interface for performing on-demand capture tasks. HP will resell Nuance eCopy ShareScan.Hyland and Nuance will support HP Open Extensibility Platform (OXPd 1.6).

HP also has enhanced HP Access Control with new features, including opt in/out rules, global settings and upgrades to critical backup configurations, sorting and reporting. The solution delivers print authentication, auditing, authorization, accounting and secure pull printing functionality for enterprises.

Improve Workflow to Strengthen Productivity and Drive Growth

HP continues to deliver intelligent solutions to meet the growing mobility demand.  Today's mobility solution news includes:

• iPhone application support for HP ePrint Enterprise and Mobile Print Locations available today for download in the App Store. HP extends the robust functionality of HP ePrint Enterprise solution, originally launched on Research In Motion's BlackBerry Smartphone devices, to the more than 100 million iPhone users.⁽¹⁾  This will only be available in EMEA as of June 1, 2011.
• Android application support for HP ePrint Enterprise and Mobile Print Locations will be available by May 2011.⁽¹⁾ This will be available in EMEA as of June 1, 2011.

Eight of the top 10 Americas Financial Services companies are HP Managed Print Services (MPS) or solutions customers.⁽⁴⁾  Today´s financial services news includes:

HP Loan Origination Accelerator automates the document management element of the loan origination process, shortening cycle times, advancing straight-through processing, providing more transparency and improving the overall customer experience. 

HP also enhanced its HP MPS Multi-vendor Services and HP Universal Print Drive (UPD) 5.3.

HP additionally announced the HP Exstream Makeover: Customer Communications Edition where enterprise customers can enter to win a $500K software and services package to help improve the quality and efficiency of their customer communications activities.  Interested companies can learn more by visiting www.hp.com/go/exstreammakeover or by participating in the HP Exstream Makeover mobile tour.  

Devices that deliver results and reduce costs

HP's robust device portfolio now includes two new networked HP LaserJet MFPs that provide SMB and enterprise customers features such as HP ePrint to streamline workflows. HP FutureSmart Firmware dramatically improves fleet management through a single consistent code base across the fleet, allowing new features to be added to the entire fleet via firmware updates. These updates can save money by increasing the functionality of the existing printer fleet and deliver a foundation for next-generation, web-connected capabilities.

• HP LaserJet Enterprise M4555 MFP series - A secure, easy-to-use mono MFP designed to help businesses increase efficiency and improve document workflow. The device features several enterprise tools including: HP Web Jetadmin for industry leading monitoring and management, HP FutureSmart firmware to ensure the most up-to-date features long into the future and HP's Open Extensibility Platform to simplify the development and deployment of HP and third-party solutions. Initially, this product will only be available in: UK & Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany and France.
• HP LaserJet Pro M1217nfw MFP - HP's most affordable wireless LaserJet MFP includes print, scan, fax and copy functionality, as well as Ethernet and wireless networking standard.⁽⁵⁾ This new product also features innovative technologies such as HP Smart Install, which enables CD-free driver installations in as fast as five minutes,⁽⁶⁾ and HP Auto On, Auto Off.⁽⁷⁾

Additional information about HP's new imaging and printing solutions and devices is available at www.hp.com/go/businessprinting2011.

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(1) HP ePrint Enterprise requires Internet- and email-capable iPhone® 3G or newer running iOS 4.2 or later, or Android® device running version 1.4 or newer, with separately purchased wireless Internet service, HP ePrint Enterprise server software and HP ePrint services app. Solution works with PCL5/6, PCL3, PCL3GUI printers (HP and non-HP).

(2) Usage of HP ePrint services app at mobile printing locations requires Internet- and e-mail-capable iPhone® 3G or newer running iOS 4.2 or later, or Android® device running version 1.4 or newer, with separately purchased wireless Internet service, and HP ePrint services app. Solution works with PCL5/6, PCL3, PCL3GUI printers (HP and non-HP). Availability and cost of printing varies by location. HP ePrint Enterprise requires Internet- and email-capable BlackBerry® smartphone OS 4.5 or newer, iPhone® 3G or newer, running iOS 4.2 or later, HP webOS devices running webOS 1.45 or 2.0, or Android™ device running version 1.4 or newer, with separately purchased wireless Internet service, HP ePrint Enterprise server software and HP ePrint services app. Solution works with PCL5/6, PCL3, PCL3GUI printers (HP and non-HP). BlackBerry requires BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) deployment. HP webOS app available July 2011.

(3) Requires an internet connection to the printer. Services may require registration. Apps availability varies by country and language. Details at www.hp.com/go/ePrintcenter.

(4) Based on data since November 2009 from the 2010 "Fortune Global 500."

(5) Wireless performance is dependent upon physical environment and distance from access point.

(6) HP Smart Install works with Windows® only. Based on USB installation. Actual installation times may vary by printer device and settings.

(7) HP Auto-On and Auto-Off capabilities vary by printer device and settings.

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