Change the Economics of Technology and Partner With a Trusted Ally To Manage Your Business
Without question, the global economy has entered a very challenging period. Though the current downturn is severe, it's not the first time we've been here. Over the last sixty years, the United States has gone through at least seven recessions and has emerged from each one stronger.
However, much has changed. Since the last big downturn in 2001: technology budgets are larger, businesses have automated more processes, employees make greater use of technology and e-commerce has moved to the core of day-to-day operations.
Taken together, this combination of cost pressures and IT organizations that are more vital to company goals will have new implications for business technology today. Budgets are being scrutinized as never before. Everyone is watching the bottom line. At the same time, businesses need to keep going and remain competitive. Customers are even more demanding, and competition is fierce. Investment in business technology is still essential.
The challenge is to simultaneously reduce costs and shift IT priorities to those projects where there is a strong business imperative and rapid return on investment. By doing so, you can change the economics of technology and build an infrastructure that delivers whatever the business demands – today and into the future.
For nearly 50 years, HP Enterprise Services has helped thousands of clients reduce operating costs, keep critical projects moving forward while conserving capital and prepare for future growth. During both good economic times and bad, we've been there with our customers every step of the way providing innovative technology services around the globe. We do our job so you're free to do yours.
Never before has there been a more important time to concentrate on your core business and partner with a trusted ally to manage your IT. Never before could you have as strong an ally as HP. “The HP Enterprise Services value proposition remains as compelling today as it did over 40 years ago,” said Jeff Womack, vice president of HP Product Marketing. “Regardless of the economic climate, we help clients improve productivity and get more business value from their existing assets while reducing operating costs and preserving cash. The current market conditions amplify these benefits.
HP offers a robust arsenal of services to battle these rough economic times. We can help you win at:
- Concentrating on business decisions – not IT management, which has never been more critical than in these tumultuous economic times
- Significantly lowering costs, immediately taking advantage of industry best practices and utilizing lower-cost shared resources
- A faster return on investment (ROI)
- Transforming fixed costs to variable costs, which gives you more control over what you are spending
- Reducing operating costs and increasing efficiency
- Scaling down/up as business changes for the worse to the better
- Delivering more value from current IT assets
HP offers many services to help you during these tough economic times including:
- Applications Management Services
HP delivers a cost-effective, applications management solution that balances your business objectives, operational requirements and costs. With our new flexible, tiered pricing and delivery model design, we give you more control over how you apply cost-cutting measures – with the ability to save up to 40 percent on applications maintenance expenses. - Application Modernization Services
By applying innovative technologies, HP works behind the scenes to improve your business' performance by up to 25 percent and reduce your application and infrastructure costs from 30 percent to 60 percent. - Managed Services Suite
Comprehensive suite of managed services offering flexible sourcing engagements with a fast ROI and predictable pricing to help you stay competitive and target cost savings that best align to your business priorities. - Business Processing Outsourcing Services
HP Enterprise Services Business Process Outsourcing increases your ability to focus and maneuver while increasing productivity, cost control and enterprise responsiveness. By coupling our IT management and business process outsourcing services with in-depth, industry-specific knowledge, we provide business-focused solutions tailored to your strategic goals. - Virtualization
Moving to a virtualized environment allows enterprises to do more with less. With proper management and orchestration, virtualization has the potential to dramatically reduce the amount of physical space needed, cut costs associated with running bulky equipment and enable greater flexibility by reducing server stand up time from weeks to hours. - Storage Management Services
Our value-based approach to storage management aligns the cost of storage with the business value of your information and provides cost-effective “pay per use” terms. This approach uses best practices and innovative processes to actually raise performance while reducing costs. - Service Desk & Site Support Services
By outsourcing service desk and site support, you can improve responsiveness and get more value from your IT investment. HP can supply all the capabilities needed to make your enterprise run more efficiently and reliably – delivered through a global network of IT support professionals and available 24 hours a day.
In tough times it makes sense to consider approaches that allow you to reduce costs and improve service levels while avoiding capital outlays. HP offers a full arsenal of services to help you meet and overcome the economic challenges of today and still be ready to compete tomorrow.
