At HP, we provide solutions that help people and organizations connect and create a better world. Millions of people are searching for new and better ways to live and work, increasing the demand for information technology (IT), especially in cloud computing and connectivity solutions that allow instant access to information from anywhere, at any time. This demand is emerging alongside extraordinary environmental, social, and economic forces such as climate change, rapid population growth, and increasing urbanization.
In this new world, information is our most valuable resource and one of the keys to addressing today’s global challenges while creating tomorrow’s sustainable growth. Here are just a few ways HP solutions are helping to improve our environment, our communities, and how we live and work.
- Making sense of a world of data CeNSE (Central Nervous System for the Earth) enhances human interaction with the earth using an intelligent network of billions of inexpensive, highly receptive sensors. These perceive and analyze information around us with remarkable fidelity and then send the data they gather over fast computing networks to powerful data centers for real-time analysis and action.
- Providing access to lifesaving information HP is helping to pioneer an innovative pharmaceutical authentication system. It’s quick, easy to use, and can be accessed via text message with a basic mobile phone. This technology empowers patients with timely information about their medications and has the potential to dramatically reduce deaths caused by counterfeit drugs.
- Redefining the possible HP Labs is moving memristor from theory to reality. A new element of electrical circuitry, memristor operates in ways that have been compared to brain synapses. We hope that this breakthrough will lead to increasingly energy-efficient, compact, and powerful computing systems that open up more sustainable, efficient, and creative solutions for customers.
- Enabling the next billion Internet users HP has introduced a cloud-based service to expand access to communication and information. HP SiteOnMobile allows people in developing countries to access the Internet—many for the first time—with a basic mobile phone, even if the phone lacks web browsing and email features.
A unique advantage
HP’s size, scale, and global reach provide us with a unique advantage. Through investments in research and development (R&D), industry partnerships, and acquisitions, we have developed a comprehensive portfolio of IT hardware, software, and services, backed by nearly 325,000 employees2 in approximately 170 countries. Our reach allows us to have a global impact on critical issues that affect communities worldwide, such as energy and climate change, education, and healthcare.
While we invest in R&D to support our business, we also search for ways to complement and further extend our existing capabilities and meet customer needs. For example, by combining the breadth and scale of our existing portfolio of products and services with the recently acquired webOS platform, we have critical pieces in place to respond to both our customers’ desire for consistent, integrated access to information and the converging industry trends of mobility and cloud computing.
The scope of HP's business
- Personal systems HP is the world's leading vendor of personal computers, with the industry's broadest portfolio of notebooks, desktops, workstations, thin clients, displays, handheld devices, and personal storage solutions.
- Imaging and printing HP has been the worldwide leader in inkjet and laser printing for more than 20 years, advancing the digital transformation of printing while offering customers new ways to be creative, conserve resources, and improve productivity.
- HP Enterprise Business HP provides businesses and governments with services and technology infrastructure for the Instant-On Enterprise—helping them to serve their customers and citizens instantly, adapt easily, innovate rapidly, and manage risk and environmental responsibility.
- HP Financial Services HP helps customers reduce the cost of running their businesses—from planning and acquiring technology to retiring and replacing it.
- HP Corporate Investments With hundreds of dedicated researchers in seven locations worldwide, HP Labs develops solutions designed to address the most complex challenges facing our customers in the coming decade. Within its Corporate Investments segment, HP also incubates innovations such as video collaboration solutions and mobile devices associated with the recently acquired webOS platform.
| Revenue by segment, fiscal year 2010 |
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Enterprise Business |
46% |
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Services |
28% |
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Enterprise Storage and Servers |
16% |
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HP Software |
2% |
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Personal Systems Group |
32% |
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Imaging and Printing Group |
20% |
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HP Financial Services |
2% |
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| Revenue by region, fiscal year 2010 |
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Americas |
45% |
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United States |
35% |
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Latin America |
10% |
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Europe, Middle East, and Africa |
37% |
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Asia Pacific |
18% |
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