Hp News & Articles

It’s taken the rumor-mill longer than usual to crank up this year. However, it’s finally shifted-up a few gears as we now hear whispers that HP has found buyers for Autonomy and EDS. We stress again that this is the rumor mill in full operation, so proceed with caution.

Having only just entered the New Year, HP is already making news with indications that it may drop business units that are not performing, while the US Justice Department formally began investigations into Autonomy.

Need to add more websites to your growing company or just testing out a few systems to make a short list of new Web CMS candidates? We've gathered up a few highlights from the past year to help nail down a few contenders.

Economically, we still haven’t left the Great Recession behind. It’s everywhere; in every enterprise balance sheet, in every merger and acquisition, in R&D departments on both sides of the Atlantic. That said, it hasn’t really dampened enthusiasm for buy-outs and there were many this year across the entire IT spectrum.

There have been numerous reports over the years on how cloud computing has developed, how businesses are taking to it, and how it is being used in the home. However, little enough research has been done to assess what vendors think about it. A new report aims to remedy that.

With all the financial controversy surrounding HP over the past few months -- including poor quarterly figures and Autonomy write-downs -- sometimes its core business gets overlooked. During this week’s HPDiscover conference in Germany, we got to see a lot of really interesting new products. The last one we will look at is the new HP EliteBook Revolve.

Over the past couple of days we've seen a number of new solutions and enhancements in a number of IT spaces.  With its Big Data abilities already having been extended significantly, Autonomy is now being pulled into the HP fold proper -- today it’s with HP's cloud offerings. 

Even with all the product releases around Big Data, or signs that HP is finally beginning to integrate Autonomy technology into its portfolio, one event that everyone was waiting to see, and maybe even looking for inspiration from, was the keynote speech by CEO Meg Whitman.

Earlier on we took a look at HP’s upgrade to its Marketing Performance Suite, which combined technologies from Autonomy and HP. Another set of announcements from today’s proceedings at HPDiscover in Frankfurt cover HP’s future take on Big Data and how it is going to tackle it.

Autonomy and HP have been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent weeks, but today's release of an upgraded Marketing Performance Suite gives some kind of indication of where HP might be going with Autonomy’s IDOL technology -- if only it could get this nasty accounting issue out of the way.

This week was a quiet one -- with the Thanksgiving Weekend and the US only slowly waking up. That said, there are a few things to announce in the document management space -- Google enabled super-sized Gmail attachments, Cabinet released an iPad app, Quest just announced a new version of MessageStats, and OpenText made Autonomy customers an offer.

The HP-Autonomy snowball just keeps gathering momentum. It was predictable that once HP accused the former CEO of Autonomy of dodgy accounting practices, the lawyers would step in. But it seems that the legal mud will be flying in all directions as an investor jumps in to grab the salvage of the HP-Autonomy business wreck.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison could very well be driving around in his US$ 445,000 Lexus LFA right about now, laughing uncontrollably.

HP & Autonomy Pointing Fingers
What started as a US$ 11b acquisition story is now a tale of cheating and scheming. HP says Autonomy cooked the books. But former Autonomy CEO, Mike Lynch, says it's not true -- that HP's politics and business practices are the reason behind Autonomy's financial woes.

What Customers Want
It's about more than getting that sale, it's also about promoting the brand and building loyalty. Customers increasingly demand more, it's how the enterprise responds to the customer's needs that makes the difference.

Even President Obama understood how to reach into the hearts and minds of the country via digital marketing to get the right information to the right people, at just the right time to win the 2012 presidential election.

Social CRM Tweet Jam
A final reminder that our #CXMChat Tweet Jam on the social side of customer relationship management is taking place on November 28th. Get the Tweet Jam questions and panelists here.

Most Popular

• Obama Victory's Debt to Digital Marketing
• Microsoft Windows 8: How Bad Could it Be?
• Thoughts on the Future of Collaboration From Yammer Co-founder Adam Pisoni
• Apple Stock Price Bounces Back, Thanks to AC/DC and eBay?
• 8 Ways Businesses Can Use Facebook and Customer Relationship Management

Editor's Picks

• SharePoint is the New SAP
• Pinterest Releases New Business Tools, Gets Analytics from HelloInsights
• Customer Experience: What Customers Want, What the Enterprise Must Do
• Amazon Introduces New e-Commerce Digital Marketing Tools: Pages & Posts
• The Six Pillars of Social Business

Around the Web

• Building Your Company's "Why"
• Gamification: does it make business more fun, or is it just exploitationware?
• An introduction to SEO - It's a lot like dating
• Keeping the Brand Promise
• Obama cracks Nate Silver joke at turkey pardoning

Featured Events (all events | post your event

• Nov 27 -- Gilbane Conference in Boston
• Nov 28 -- Tweet Jam: Socializing Customer Relationship Management #CXMChat
• Dec 05 -- SMX Social Media Marketing Las Vegas
• Dec 12 -- Big Analytics New York 2012
• Jan 27 -- IBM Connect 2013

Featured Jobs (all jobs | post your job)

• Content Analyst at NM Incite
• Implementation Engineer in California at Tealium
• Brand Strategist in San Francisco at Twitter
• Writer -- Interactive in Santa Clara Valley at Apple
• Technical Project Manager in Portland at Janrain

Anyone that thought Mike Lynch, former CEO and founder of Autonomy was going to sit back and let Meg Whitman, CEO of HP, make all the running on a story that has left the rarefied atmosphere of information management and entered the mainstream, prime-time news, would be underestimating Mike Lynch.