January 28, 2010

HP has announced it has garnered 184 industry awards and accolades in the Asia-Pacific region in its fiscal year 2009 for imaging and printing products and software, further distinguishing HP as a leading printing provider for commercial, enterprise and graphic arts customers.

“HP continues its relentless focus to offer unparalleled business printing solutions and the past year’s recognition speaks of our commitment,” said Ivy Liang, VP Marketing, Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific. “We are pleased to have received a number of channel, graphics, SMB, Consumer and Editor’s Choice awards as these recognitions align with our strategy to provide our customers with the best quality and most reliable imaging and printing products.”

Leading global independent tester of imaging and printing products, Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI), evaluated a wide range of models through its battery of rigorous lab tests, evaluating key performance areas such as reliability, image quality, productivity, ease of use, and more.

“HP’s performance in the 2009 ‘Pick of the Year’ Awards from BLI emphasize HP’s strength in depth across a variety of categories,” said David Sweetnam, BLI’s International Lab and Research Manager.  “From Wide-Format devices through workgroup printers, HP continues to perform consistently well for image quality, productivity, reliability and energy efficiency.”

HP was the recipient of seven Buyers Laboratory, Inc.’s prestigious “Pick of the Year” accolades that were evaluated on key performance areas such as reliability, image quality, productivity, ease of use, and more:

• Outstanding Small Workgroup Monochrome Printer for energy efficiency, Fall 2009: HP LaserJet P2055dn
• Outstanding Small Workgroup Monochrome Printer, Fall 2009: HP LaserJet Enterprise P3015 Series
• Outstanding Mid-Size Workgroup Color Printer, Fall 2009: Color LaserJet CP4525 Series
• Outstanding Wide-Format Color Inkjet Multipurpose Printer, Fall 2009: HP Designjet T1200
• Outstanding Business Inkjet Printer, Spring 2009: HP Officejet Pro 8000 Wireless Printer
• Outstanding Business Inkjet Multifunction Printer, Spring 2009: HP Officejet Pro 8500 Premier All-In-One
• Outstanding Workgroup Scanner, Spring 2009: HP Scanjet 7000

HP continues to receive top honors and gain industry recognition, accredited to HP’s commitment to consistently innovate and provide customers with the strongest portfolio of printing services and solutions.

By Jason Cross
January 10, 2009

December 23, 2009

From left:  Caloy Ortiz of IRRI; Ramon Cortez of Networld Hotel; Grace Castillo, sales head of Globe Business; Ronald Vallesteros of Sofitel Philippine Plaza; Joey Santos of Hyatt Hotel & Casino; and Sarah Austria of Globe Business.

Globe, a leading telecommunications company in the Philippines, presented the first Hotel IT Managers Conference together with the Hotel IT Association of the Philippines at Canyon Cove, Nasugbu Batangas. The event provided a venue for the IT Managers from the hospitality industry to know the latest technology available in the market today.

Led by Globe Business, the corporate arm of Globe, the Hotel IT Managers Conference 2009 gave updates on hotel trends and shared insights on best practices for hotel IT. The participants also got a view of the communication solutions that Globe Business provides the hotel industry.

Among the topics discussed at the conference were the preferred internet and voice solutions for the hospitality industry, and ways to make the hotel stay experience more personalized. As partners of Globe Business for this event, AVAYA, HP, MEC, Axis Communications and Teledata also shared the solutions that have been tailor fit to the needs of the hotel industry.

Globe Business provides solutions that will simplify and enrich the day-to-day communication of enterprises such as Voice Solutions and the Broadband Internet Zone (BIZ). BIZ is the broadband-to-the-room internet service of Globe suited to hotels, condominiums and property management enterprises. It provides secure, reliable and convenient high-speed internet connectivity to hotel guests.

Globe Business also offers voice plans and packages that suit the different flexibility and usage needs of companies. It has the Corporate Load Allowance Plans that are prepaid extension plans paired with a corporate postpaid plan, which will allow the latter to send a predefined load amount every month to the prepaid extension plans.

Among other voice solutions are the Employee Prepaid Plus that allows an enterprise to set the schedule and amount of load credit to be sent out to employees. The Corporate Business Loop provides discounted call rates to employees that are part of a calling circle.

Globe Business offers wireless and wireline data and voice solutions relevant to the needs of various local and foreign small, medium and large enterprises from diverse industries, including the top corporations in the Philippines. It understands the needs of enterprises and provides them with solutions that match what their business demands, whether cost efficiency, security, mobility, IT integration, and reliable connectivity solutions.

December 18, 2009

The Yuletide season has always been about finding the right gifts for the special people in your lives, so why not make gift-hunting extra special by adding another “nice” person on your list - YOU. After all, you deserve a reward for the year that has been. So indulge yourself with the gift of technology and choose from the vast array of the coolest computing gadgets to this year’s most impressive printers. Fortunately, HP offers a wide range of budget-friendly gifts of technology that are bound to please the demands of your everyday life.

Reward yourself this Christmas through high quality HP printing technologies, the most practical and valuable gifts anyone can enjoy. This year’s printers from HP offer excellent solutions that perform according to the needs of schoolwork, business, or everyday printing at home.

HP Photosmart Premium All-in-One
P10,490

Give yourself the gift of touch this Christmas with the HP Photosmart Premium All-in-One, the flagship model of the HP Photosmart printer lineup. The HP Photosmart Premium All-in-One is an easy-to-use print, scan, and copy solution that offers the convenience of HP TouchSmart and wireless connectivity for users who want to print from virtually anywhere in the home. Featuring a TouchSmart control panel with a large 3.45-inch touchscreen, the HP Photosmart Premium All-in-One allows users to view, edit and print lab-quality photos without a PC. Complete with built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Ethernet capabilities, this device is perfect for your daily needs - from everyday documents to photos.

HP Photosmart C4680
P4,990

If you’re looking for the perfect gift that’s within the holiday budget, go for the HP Photosmart C4680 All-in-One, HP’s most affordable Photosmart printer that boasts touch-enabled interface. The HP Photosmart C4680 All-in-One is a versatile, intuitive printing system that makes at-home scanning, copying and printing simple and convenient. It also allows users to easily view and print photos, web pages and everyday documents with the HP TouchSmart frame, the printer’s stunning color display.

HP Deskjet D5560 Printer
P4,490

For a more flexible printing power, the HP Deskjet D5560 Printer will be ideal. HP’s most affordable wireless printer, the HP Deskjet D5560 Printer has integrated Wi-Fi capabilities, an easy wireless setup, and a one-touch operation button that allows several users print laser-quality text and vivid color images virtually anywhere in the home or office. Putting a premium on hassle-free printing, it comes with handy ink level gauges that alert users when the printer is running low on ink. Packed with big features and wireless connectivity, this affordable machine ups the ante when it comes to ease-of-use that’s ideal for the student or the home and office user.

HP announces its expanded portfolio of imaging and printing devices, solutions and services to help enterprise customers drive efficiency, cost savings and environmental responsibility.

Designed to help enterprise customers optimize and manage their imaging and printing environments and improve document workflows, the new offerings include a new networked printer, extensibility platform capabilities, fleet management software, information management solutions and five large-format devices.

“With the current economic environment, companies are facing an increasing need to make everything spent count, reduce costs, and increase productivity while promoting eco-saving initiatives. Through HP’s imaging and printing offerings, a growing number of organizations have already been cutting costs and increasing their output efficiency,” said Jenny Sotto-Siquioco, country general manager, Imaging and Printing Group, HP Philippines. “HP’s new and expanded imaging and printing portfolio will enable customers to meet requirements while helping spur long term growth as the economy recovers.”

Secure fleet management of imaging and printing environments

HP DesignJet 4020

HP’s new high-performance workgroup printer with advanced security features, new management solutions and extensibility platform capabilities enable businesses to reliably, efficiently and cost-effectively maintain an optimized imaging and printing environment.

The offerings include:

• Saving up to 50% on energy consumption, with HP Instant-on Technologythe HP LaserJet Enterprise P3010 Printer seriesis a high-performance networked printer for businesses needing to print high volumes with added protection for confidential documents on a variety of media types. The printer features advanced security features, including IPsec and hardware security features such as PIN authentication and a hardware integration pocket which allows users to connect and house security card swipe and authentication devices. As part of the HP Eco Solutions program, the new laser printer is ENERGY STAR qualified and uses significantly less energy than competitive laser printersbased on several key environmental attributes listed on the HP Eco Highlights label.

• HP Open Extensibility Platform (OXP)and solution developer kits (SDKs) dramatically simplify the development and deployment of custom imaging and print solutions across HP’s fleet of multifunction products. An industry first, the HP Solution Installer reduces the time and cost of deploying embedded solutions on a fleet of imaging and printing devices - in some cases from days to hours. In addition, OXP adds new management interfaces (OXP-Management) such that IT managers, system integrators and software solution providers can use web services to interact with HP Web Jetadmin to retrieve device information and status alerts.

• HP Web Jetadmin 10.2helps administrators optimize device utilization, control color costs, set default PIN authentication, secure devices and streamline supplies management for HP and non-HP network peripherals. New features of HP Web Jetadmin 10.2 include enhanced remote management capabilities, improved device discovery and configuration and advanced supplies management that reduces maintenance time and overall device deployment costs. In addition, users can remotely schedule sleep and wake-up modes to conserve power and reduce energy consumption. This year, the earlier HP Web Jetadmin 10 had received the Outstanding Network Device Management Solution award from Buyers Laboratory Inc.

• HP Universal Print Driver 5.0, feature-rich driver that now includes HP EasyColor, which optimizes color printing and improves print performance for image-intensive documents. In addition, users can set printing devices to automatic two-sided printing to reduce paper waste. Features in HP Web Jetadmin and Universal Print Driver software can set an organization’s printers to duplex in a few simple keystrokes,saving up to 25% in paper costs.

Optimize imaging and printing infrastructure with new large-format printing choices

HP DesignJet T1120

HP introduced an expanded large-format printer portfolio that includes a range of new workgroup and multifunction printers and software solutions to improve connectivity, security and fleet management for office users, IT managers and production operators.

New devices include the HP Designjet T1120 SD-MFP, HP Designjet T1120 HD-MFP, HP Designjet 4520 HD-MFP and 4520 Scanner, HP Designjet T1120 Printer series and HP Designjet 4020 / 4520 Printer series. These offerings can save enterprises up to 15 to 30% off total large-format printing costs and provide up to 10 times faster response from click-to-print and improved overall print quality with crisper lines and smoother renders.

For the first time, the HP Web Jetadmin seamlessly integrates the expanded HP Designjet portfolio within existing networks and allows large-format printing devices to be remotely managed as part of a diverse printing fleet. The new large-format printers, MFPs and software are integrated into the HP Managed Print Services (MPS) offerings, enabling customers to reduce printing infrastructure costs, increase uptime and achieve predictable, consistent service delivery across multiple locations.

HP LaserJet P4015n
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When you’re in the market for a long lasting, fast and accurate monochrome printer for your office, the HP LaserJet P4015n is the suitable choice.

Like its predecessor, the LaserJet P4015n features built-in Gigabit Ethernet for fast and easy sharing, an ultra-fast 540MHz processor, and enhanced toner technology for consistent print quality. In addition, although the LaserJet P4014n printer supports only 600 sheets of paper, it can be expanded up to 3,600 sheets for high-capacity offices. Not to mention that it supports printing functions for a variety of mediums, including paper, envelopes, labels, cardstock, and even transparencies.

When security is of concern in your office or company, the LaserJet P4015n provides top of the line features. Rated as the best in its class for security measures, the P4015n supports standard HP security protocol as well as third party vendor protocol. Network ready with a RJ-45 port Ethernet print server; you can handle print jobs remotely.

The HP LaserJet P4015n provides crisp, sharp images with every print boosting a resolution of 1200×1200dpi. Printing speed up to 50 pages per minute.

Globe has recently announced an affordable and complete connectivity package targeting small and medium enterprise (SME) clients.

With the Enhanced PC Bundle, SME subscribers can now get a laptop together with a landline and a broadband connection by just adding P1,425 or P1,100.00 to the monthly service fee for an HP laptop or HPCompaq desktop computer respectively.

The PC Bundles aims to help in boosting the productivity of small and medium businesses. “The value-packed offering is useful for doing a range of activities from managing a business to e-mailing and surfing the Web,” said Globe Business corporate & segments head Emmanuel Aligada. “We at Globe want to ensure that Globe Broadband and Globe Landline will keep SMEs’ in touch with their resources and network, providing communication and information across the organization, while this affordable packages give these businesses much-needed savings.”

The Enhanced PC Bundle includes an HP Compaq desktop or an HP Laptop powered by a faster Intel Core 2 Duo processor. With the increased computing power and high performance of the HP PCs that come with the bundle, SME subscribers can maximize Globe Broadband’s high bandwidth and fast connection.

Whatever the customer requires, there is an Enhanced PC Bundle suited to his needs. Globe’s Enhanced PC Bundle plans range from Plan 384 kbps to Plan 3 Mbps, at P995 to P2,295 MSF plus a minimal fee for the desktop or laptop.

For more information on the Enhanced PC Bundle packages, please call 730-1288 or 1-800-8-730-1288. You may also visit www.sme.globe.com.ph for more details.

After subjecting a wide range of color printers and printer MFPs to a battery of rigorous lab tests, BLI has announced the winners of its Spring 2009 “Pick” awards in the color printer category, with nine products from seven vendors taking top honors for their outstanding performance in BLI testing. The tests evaluate products for a variety of important performance aspects, including reliability, image quality, productivity, print drivers, feedback to workstations, administrative utilities, ease of use, network setup, toner yield and more.

One of the companies that won awards for their high-quality products was HP, the world’s largest technology company. Two if its products, the HP Officejet Pro 8000 Printer Series and HP Officejet Pro 8500 AiO Series, were deemed exceptional performers and chosen as BLI “Pick” winners.

Economy And Ease Of Use Lead To HP’s “Picks” For Inkjet Products
Based on the same engine, the HP Officejet Pro 8000 and Officejet Pro 8500 All-In-One Series earned BLI “Pick” awards in the business inkjet printer and inkjet multifunction printer categories, respectively.

HP Officejet Pro 8500

“Both the Officejet Pro 8000 and Officejet Pro 8500 are easy to set up and use, with highly automated installation, easy-to-use print drivers and very good feedback regarding errors, thanks to HP’s outstanding utilities,” said Tony Maceri, BLI senior test technician. “The touch-screen interface on the Officejet Pro 8500 is also a very nice feature we don’t usually see on low-priced units like this one.”

“The Officejet Pro 8000 printer and Officejet Pro 8500 All-In-One breezed through our reliability test with no misfeeds or malfunctions,” added BLI Senior Printer Analyst Marlene Orr. “And both provide good business color output and offer a low cost per page, making them good value for small workgroup environments.”

“HP is very pleased to receive these awards for the HP Officejet Pro 8500 All-in-One series and HP Officejet Pro 8000 Printer,” said Jenny Sotto-Siquioco, Country General Manager, Imaging and Printing Group, HP Philippines. In today’s challenging business environment, HP wants to do our part in helping SMB customers manage their imaging and printing costs with our innovative portfolio of print solutions that in delivering printing cost savings and energy use savings of up to 50%”.

BLI regularly acknowledges the very best performers with its semi-annual “Pick” awards. The awards are given to products that perform best in BLI’s unique tests, which evaluate a wide range of the most important performance factors for buyers, including reliability, ease of use, productivity and value, among others.

The highly mobile HP Compaq 6530b Notebook PC helps keep you connected and productive so your office goes with you. This newly designed notebook offers the latest Intel Core^T 2 Duo Processors, enhanced security solutions, and compatibility with a range of HP Universal Accessories for a complete business solution around the corner or across the globe. Built to last. Reliable features such as HP DuraFinish, magnesium alloy support structure, and HP 3D DriveGuard help give you a reliable notebook that can go the distance.

Technology in tune with your needs
With the 14.1-inch diagonal widescreen display, you choose between a high-resolution, an antiglare or an HP BrightView display. Experience new levels of system responsiveness when running multiple applications and smarter battery performance designed to help extend mobility with Intel Core 2 Duo Processors. With the Upgrade Bay with Dual HDD support, easily replace your optical with an optional secondary hard drive or upgrade to the next-generation optical drive. Quickly synchronize and store your data with different types of devices or other users with the integrated Media Card Reader.

Enjoy wireless in more places
Whether you’re across the street or across the country, HP Mobile Broadband, Wi-Fi Certified WLAN5 and Bluetooth technologies allow you to conveniently stay connected in more places.

HP Professional Innovations help you focus on your business
Built to protect. An array of multi-layered, customizable security solutions help defend your network, your applications, and your data.

Built to simplify
Boost your productivity while maximizing simplicity with features such as HP QuickLook 2, which allows you to quickly view your e-mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks information with one touch of a button.

A new offering within the HP IT Financial Management (ITFM) portfolio, the HP Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) solution enables chief information officers (CIOs) to run IT like a business and demonstrate the business value of IT services. This solution brings together software and services to provide improved visibility, governance, accountability and predictability to IT finance.

HP FP&A is the first offering in the HP ITFM portfolio designed to help IT organizations use business analytics to improve decision making, operate efficiently and better align with the rest of the business. This transforms IT into a performance-based, metrics-driven organization.

“Our newest FP&A solution works two ways,” said David Tan, managing director of HP Philippines. “IT organizations will be able to further streamline their businesses and track their company standing, with the help of readily available financial data. Companies who rely on IT services, meanwhile, will find that our FP&A solution validates IT as a strategic investment; with FP&A, companies can quantify how their respective IT investments have affected workplace productivity and profitability. Furthermore, FP&A assists companies in making more informed business decisions, particularly in terms of company finances. All these are necessary advantages given today’s economic conditions.”

In a recent survey by Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, of more than 200 IT leaders worldwide, nearly half of the respondents said they lack investment rigor and have no form of portfolio management in place for aligning IT investment decisions to business priorities. In addition, while 66% of senior IT leaders said IT-spending transparency is “very important” to their business stakeholders, only 44% reported that their stakeholders are “very satisfied” with their organizations’ spending transparency.

“HP is helping us enhance operational and strategic decision making by identifying ways to drive more value to our business while driving out inefficiencies,” said Allan Hackney, chief information officer, John Hancock Financial Services. ”Our IT organization is better able to attract internal capital for investment by managing itself like a business in a transparent, fact-based manner.”

Improved financial governance and transparency

HP FP&A software combines a financial planning and analysis capability linked to a financial data model. It consolidates financial information from project, asset and configuration management systems, as well as enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. This approach provides visibility of the end-to-end costs of a business service. With this visibility, CIOs can then take action to reduce variances between planned and actual spending, optimize underutilized assets and accurately allocate IT costs to the consumers of IT services.

The new software automates the process of consolidating financial information across labor and technology assets for improved financial analysis. HP FP&A can be run as a stand-alone or in conjunction with other HP software products such as HP Project Portfolio Management Center, HP Asset Manager and HP Configuration Management System.

HP also announced a newly enhanced version of HP Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Center 8.0 software with improved financial and resource management capabilities. This helps customers more effectively manage IT projects and resources.

The combination of all these HP offerings increases the speed, efficiency and accuracy of IT financial management processes, further aligning IT activity and cost with business services.

Additionally, consulting services supply best practices to integrate data from multiple sources, providing better business insight.

New services and best practices help run IT like a business

HP provides comprehensive services for IT financial management, combining years of experience in business intelligence and service management with expertise in implementing industry-leading HP software products. They include:

• Strategy and Advisory Services- help synthesize organizational requirements, data, process and technical gaps for the purpose of developing detailed implementation roadmaps.
• Implementation Services- help customers gain new business insights for strategic decision making. Business intelligence services help customers forecast budgetary needs, quantify the value of IT services they deliver to the business, improve cost efficiency of the IT organization and better align IT resource with business needs.
• Process Consulting and Solution Implementation Services- help customers deliver improved business outcomes more quickly by rapidly deploying HP ITFM and HP PPM solutions. These services are based on the HP Service Management Reference Model.
• Best practices for Configuration Management Systems- help accelerate deployment and provide a use model for customers to automatically discover the IT assets they have and relate them to the costs of the services they are delivering.

With the HP IT Financial Management portfolio, customers can:

• Drive out inefficiencies in IT spending with financial analysis, project portfolio management and asset management capabilities.
• Gain cost transparency based on actual usage of IT labor and non-labor resources, as well as hardware and software.
• Implement best practices for life cycle investment management, financial accounting, IT execution management, waste reduction, software license optimization and compliance.
• Make better investment decisions and set service-level agreements that accurately factor cost, value and quality by aligning IT activity and costs with business services.

“With HP IT Financial Management, we’re driving the financial accountability of our technology organization,” said Jeffrey Johnson, deputy chief information officer and vice president of Operations and Infrastructure at Constellation Energy, a Baltimore-based supplier of energy products. “We’ve benchmarked our IT spending in relationship to our operational expenses, and it is substantially lower than that of our peers. Our unit costs - meaning cost per desktop, per server, per gigabyte of storage - have dropped 14%.”

“Customers can achieve successful IT financial management with HP’s market-leading software products and recognized consulting expertise in business intelligence, service management and IT software implementation,” said Anthony McMahon, vice president of HP Software & Solutions, Asia Pacific Japan. “We help CIOs manage the business of IT with the same rigor as any line of business.”