HP creates services for strategy, roadmap and design of virtual workplace

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expanded its unified communications
and collaboration (UC&C) services portfolio with offerings that
help clients simplify and integrate business communications to lower
costs and accelerate growth. New HP UC&C consulting services take
a comprehensive approach to transforming enterprise communications
from strategy through implementation, and across people, process and
technology. HP helps clients plan strategically, targeting a
company's long-term vision while implementing short-term steps to
ensure end-user adoption and maximum program success.

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) is
working with HP on a two-year project to standardize processes and
technologies. This transformation will allow them to speed knowledge
sharing and collaboration between workers and clients. With a UL
virtual workplace console on every desktop, connected through the
company's new UC&C infrastructure, employees can collaborate
with clients around the world without being constrained by medium,
location or device. “We want to become integral to the way
manufacturers develop their products and collaborate with our
customers as never before,” said Christian Anschuetz, Senior VP and
CIO, Underwriters Laboratories. “As our global systems integrator
and strategic partner, HP is working with us in a highly
collaborative fashion to plan, design and orchestrate the rollout of
our UL virtual workplace solution,” he added.

HP UC&C Business Value Services and
HP UC&C Education Services help clients transform the workplace
into a unified, connected and collaborative environment that lowers
operating costs and drives business growth. The new services include:

HP UC&C Transformation Workshop:
Experiential workshop that helps client stakeholders look at all
business, financial, technical and company-specific implications and
opportunities around UC&C to gain consensus then build a strategy
to support business objectives.

HP UC&C Business Value
Assessment: Takes clients through building a cost-analysis model
for a UC&C solution investment to understand the business value
and cost reductions that could be gained.

HP UC&C Business Benefits
Workshop: Helps clients build a business case for a UC&C
solution to ensure it will deliver on expected benefits. Identifies
the linkage to strategic initiatives, determines justification for
technology investments and creates a defined roadmap for project
implementation with cost estimates.

HP UC&C Strategic Architecture
Service: Speeds delivery while reducing risk and costly
technology redundancies. Clients receive an architectural blueprint
and detailed transformation plan that identifies their unique
requirements to determine priority and value for each element of the
design.

“A unified, connected and
collaborative environment can speed up business processes, improve
customer responsiveness and simplify operations to reduce costs,”
said Biswanath Bhattacharya, Director-Technology Services, HP
India. “HP helps clients assess their unique needs, optimize the
solution to meet technology and business objectives, and maximize
investment returns with end-to-end life cycle support,” he added.

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