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 You just couldn’t make this up. HP, formerly one of the New York Stock Exchange’s darlings and until recent times often mentioned in the same breath as IBM, could be set to call in the cops over the acquisition of Autonomy 18 months ago. According to CEO Meg Whitman, someone had been cooking the books before the deal was inked.

HP Autonomy still has a ways to go to reform its own finances, but financial businesses that need help getting their Dodd-Frank compliance in order can now turn to one of the leaders in information management.

Who would have thought it? A group of some of the top companies in the IT industry have come together with the W3C organization to build a new community and website that, the group says, will become the authorities' source for documents for web developers.

The first thing that stands out from yesterday's announcement by HP’s CEO Meg Whitman that she is launching a five-year recovery plan, is the impression that there was no plan in place before. Whitman has been in at HP for more than a year now, so that sounds a bit scary.

 Apple is likely to start selling the iPad Mini at the beginning of November, just as Windows 8 tablets from the likes of HP and Dell get ready to storm the enterprise. Will Apple's softly-softly approach to penetrate businesses reap rewards, or will old enterprise rules and alliances win out? What tablet hardware will the smart executive or worker be using in 2013?

It's a busy time in the document management world. The Microsoft Exchange Conference returns after 10 years as Microsoft gears up for the new Office 2013 release, HP uses Autonomy’s IDOL for information governance, AvePoint offers governance in SharePoint, FileTrail extends SharePoint’s records management, and Alfresco releases a new synching tool for enterprises.

It’s just over a year since HP bought Autonomy for US$10. 2 billion. While HP has been adding Autonomy’s IDOL to some of its software, it never really gave the impression that it had a fully developed IDOL integration strategy. That is until today with the announcement that HP is adding IDOL to some of its existing software to tackle both unstructured and structured data.

Last week Meg Whitman slapped down any speculation that HP would buy struggling RIM. Instead, she said HP would make its own smartphone way. That doesn’t mean that RIM will not undergo a renaissance, and the announcement of a licensing agreement with Microsoft could be part of that.

If the appointment of a new CEO to run Autonomy was the first of many steps needed to put HP on an even keel, then the recent interview by Meg Whitman with Fox Business News has just muddied the waters again. Her bombshell announcement: HP intends to move into the smartphone market -- again.

HP has finally announced a boss for Autonomy as it struggles to make money from the acquisition. As of next Monday (September 17), Robert Youngjohns, currently head of Microsoft sales in North America is to take over.

While there has been an understandable interest in HP and how it is going to integrate Autonomy into its business, HP, under its still-new CEO Meg Whitman carries on as usual. Today, it announced new additions to its security portfolio that build on the strategy it outlined last year.

So the reasons behind HP's disappointing Q3 results of US$ 8.9 billion in August were many, with Autonomy said to be weighing HP down. But CEO Meg Whitman was optimistic and said they would continue pushing Autonomy and IDOL. The announcement that it is integrating IDOL into VPI's workforce optimization solutions appears to be the kind of thing she was talking about.

It may have been Labor Day week, but still a few interesting items to note in the document management world. Kodak has just announced the release of a capture solution built on SharePoint, OpenText targets Tempo Express at legal industry, Lexmark points to a new hardware strategy and the Document Foundation joins OASIS.

Lawyers have some new tools with which to fight their battles. Today, HP-owned Autonomy unveiled three new innovations for its products that are designed to help law firms and corporate legal departments utilize the convergence of social, cloud and mobile technologies.

If HP investors were expecting Meg Whitman to produce a miracle at HP and turn the company around in 12 months, then last night’s earnings call will have disappointed. The hardware-software giant announced a Q3 loss of US$ 8.9 billion -- its biggest quarterly loss in its history with Autonomy dragging on an already poor performance for hardware sales.