Press release:

Parallels Appoints David Dzienciol as Regional Vice President and General Manager Sales, Asia Pacific

May 29, 2012

Former Asia Pacific Regional Vice President and General Manager Jan-Jaap Jager promoted to Vice President of Strategic Account Sales for The Americas

May 29, 2012 - Parallels (www.parallels.com), a global leader in cloud services enablement and desktop virtualization software, today announced the appointment of David Dzienciol as Regional Vice President and General Manager, Sales in Asia Pacific (APAC). Dzienciol will lead sales for Parallels Desktop Virtualization and Service Provider business divisions in APAC. He joins Parallels after successfully working in a similar role at Symantec, where he served as Vice President of Channel and Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ).

“Asia Pacific is an important market where demand for and sales of Parallels products and services has grown significantly year over year,” said Jim Herman, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Parallels. “David Dzienciol’s track record of driving business growth helped establish Symantec as a leading provider of security and makes him a great fit for Parallels. Dzienciol will build upon his proven experience to fuel continued growth of Parallels to benefit our customers and increase market share.”

Dzienciol succeeds Parallels APAC Vice President and General Manager Jan-Jaap Jager, who was instrumental in effectively leading the Parallels APAC team and growing the company’s regional footprint over the last six years. Jager has been promoted to a new role as Vice President of Strategic Account Sales for The Americas, and will now be based in Toronto, Canada, to focus on managing and growing top strategic accounts for Parallels.

Award-winning Parallels solutions include the No. 1-selling software for running Windows on a Mac without rebooting, Parallels Desktop for Mac, which is used by more than half of Fortune 200 companies. Additionally, Parallels hosting and cloud services delivery solutions enable service providers to deliver and profitably grow hosting and cloud services for more than 10 million SMBs worldwide. Parallels is a private, profitable and fast-growing company with more than 900 employees throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia.

About Parallels
Parallels is a global leader in hosting and services enablement and desktop virtualization. Founded in 2000, Parallels is a fast-growing company with more than 900 employees in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visitwww.parallels.com.

Accenture Grants Youth Business International US$4.95 Million to Equip Young People with the Skills to Start their own Businesses

News release:

May 21, 2012

Accenture Grants Youth Business International US$4.95 Million to Equip Young People with the Skills to Start their own Businesses

 

Award is part of Accenture’s global corporate citizenship focus, Skills to Succeed

 

London; May 21, 2012 –  Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Youth Business International (YBI) today announced that Accenture and the Accenture Foundations have awarded YBI a grant of US$4.95 million to give thousands of 18 – 35 year olds the skills and support they need to start their own businesses. This grant brings Accenture’s direct support to YBI to more than $8.5 million since 2006. 

 

The three-year grant will help support 33,500 underserved young people and help strengthen YBI’s global network.  It is part of Accenture's Skills to Succeed initiative, which is equipping 250,000 people around the world by 2015 with the skills to get a job or build a business. The award consists of cash and time and skills of Accenture employees to enable YBI’s network members to improve the services they offer to young people. In addition, Accenture employees will offer mentoring and training to the entrepreneurs.

 

"Supporting Youth Business International helps bring to life Accenture’s commitment to building skills,” said Adrian Lajtha, chief leadership officer at Accenture. "We share YBI’s commitment to making a significant, lasting impact on the long-term economic vitality and resilience of individuals, families and communities around the world.”

"Thanks to the support of Accenture, YBI is well-placed to play a major role in supporting young entrepreneurs around the world," said Andrew Devenport, chief executive of YBI. “We are delighted to work with an organization like Accenture which understands both the importance of building tomorrow’s generation of business leaders as well as our global network approach to tackling the problem of youth unemployment.”

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 246,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.  Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.  Through its Skills to Succeed corporate citizenship focus, Accenture is committed to equipping 250,000 people around the world by 2015 with the skills to get a job or build a business.  The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011.  Its home page is www.accenture.com.

 

About Youth Business International

Founded in 2000 by HRH The Prince of Wales, Youth Business International (YBI) is a global network of independent non-profit initiatives helping young people start and grow their own business and create employment. YBI supports under-served young entrepreneurs with a combination of training, access to capital, mentoring, and other business development services. YBI members have helped over 100,000 young people to create their own business and generate employment. An estimated 70% of these businesses are still trading after three years, with many going on to create significant levels of employment and further benefits for their communities. More at www.youthbusiness.org.

 

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PRESS RELEASE

Garaia's Innovation Pole facilitates collaboration and corporate innovation through Cisco TelePresence

Unitronics has been the partner responsible for the deployment that will be able to connect with more than 3.000 rooms all over the world

Madrid, 17 May 2012 – Cisco has announced that the Garaia Innovation Centre, situated in Mondragón, belonging to the Network of Technological Parks of Euskadi and the APTE (Association of Technological Parks of Spain), has inaugurated the first public telepresence room in Spain within the private sector, based on the Cisco TelePresence® platform, which will allow the businesses of Euskadi to connect with partners, clients and suppliers located anywhere in the world. The activity of the Garaia Centre is totally oriented to R&D businesses, universities and technological centre, promoting an innovative culture and acting as a meeting point.

This new service of the park, in pay-as-you-go format, is open to the entire corporate fabric of the Basque Country, with particular attention to organisations active in the four technological parks of the community (Zamudio, Miramón, Miñano and the Garaia Centre), and has a clear objective to thrust the corporate activity forward.

This service was put into action today by means of a virtual meeting that made it possible to connect interlocutors located in the Garaia head office (Mondragón) with the Cisco offices in Madrid, London and Shangai (China). The participants held a face-to-face conversation with high-quality sound and high-definition video equipment, in an uninterrupted experience of total immersion.

Major keys of the announcements

• The Cisco TelePresence platform, which uses Garaia's IP network, re-creates meeting rooms, thus bringing together participants located far from each other in a real way, as though they are actually present in the same place, which gives important benefits:

• The organisation of the meetings is as simple as making a phone call, and the controls of the room are totally transparent and intuitive.

• Innovative ‘plug and play' collaboration tools can be used, with the possibility to record the session on high-quality video or share a PC desk situated on the other side of the world by means of the Cisco WebEx® tool.

• Participants can be connected with up to 48 locations at the same meeting.

• Unitronics was the Cisco Gold Certified Partner in charge of integration at the Garaia head office of the Cisco TelePresence System 3000, designed for a room of up to six seats with all the equipment (including network sockets, data and supply in the table).

• This system -consisting of three 65-inch plasma screens- offers high-definition video resolution (1080p) and high-quality audio, as well as advanced connectors based on standard that give great flexibility and integration with telepresence rooms, auditoriums, meeting rooms and applications for education and telemedicine.

• Unitronics will also be in charge of supporting, updating and maintaining the Cisco TelePresence system, as well as dealing with monitoring and technical support.

• The head offices of Garaia and the Cisco offices in Madrid, London and Shangai (China) have been connected through the network of Tata Communications and the Intercompany Cisco TelePresence service based on the  Cisco TelePresence Exchange System architecture, which makes it possible to use telepresence to meet with other organisations that also have telepresence technology or through public telepresence rooms, regardless of the supplier of telecommunications services.

• Tata Communications has already deployed public Cisco TelePresence  rooms -at its own offices, in hotels of various chains such as Taj Hotels and Starwood, airports, business centres, etc. in order to offer this service in approximately 30 cities by means of the pay-as-you-go procedure for use by executives who travel all over the world, people who work remotely or commercial partners.

• There are over 1,000 Cisco TelePresence rooms located in the offices of Cisco all over the world that can also connect with any other public or private room that has a telepresence system based on standards.

Declarations of support

• Andoni Gartzía, managing director of Garaia

"As the first public telepresence room of the Basque Country and one of the first in the whole of Spain, this service will allow our corporate fabric to collaborate much more efficiently with working teams located in any part of the world, thus reinforcing our objective to promote innovation."

• Jesús Mansilla, director of Medium and Small Businesses in Cisco España

"Thanks to working closely with the major world operators, Cisco is putting into practice its idea of a global Cisco TelePresence network. The combination of reliable and safe Telepresence services between businesses, and access to the public Cisco TelePresence rooms is making it easier for organisations to expand their operations in line with increased productivity".

• José Antonio Montes, commercial director of the Northern Area in Unitronics

"Telepresence has pushed ahead enormously over the past few years, and it is now well established as a safe and highly advanced collaboration system that makes it possible to replace travel and live meetings, with the consequent reduction in terms of costs and CO2 emissions. Participating in this project has been a pleasure for us  and we congratulate by the fact that this first virtual meeting driven from Garaia has been an unqualified success. We hope that this innovative formula can be passed on to a larger number of businesses and institutions".

Additional resources

• Further information on Collaboration of Cisco
• Further information on the Cisco TelePresence System 3000
• Access to the photographs of Cisco TelePresence in Flickr
• Social networks: Cisco Collaboration Community, Cisco Collaboration and Video Blogs, @CiscoCollab and@TelePresence on Twitter, Cisco Collaboration and Cisco TelePresence on Facebook.

On the Garaia Innovation Centre

The GARAIA Innovation Centre is a project that supports innovation activities. It is led by the private initiative ofMondragón Corporación Cooperativa, the support of the scientific knowledge of Mondragon Unibertsitatea, the research of the Ikerlan Technological Centre and the backing of various public institutions:Vasc Goverment, through SPRILUR, Gipuzkoa Foral Deputation and the City Hall of Mondragón. Its objective is based on the promotion of innovation by making contact in a single space with suppliers of scientific knowledge (universities and technological centres) and those requesting innovation (R & D units of the businesses).

For further information, go to www.pologaraia.es.

About Unitronics

Unitronics Comunicaciones, S.A. is the leading Spanish solution provider in the field of Technology Information and Communication, specially in the areas of networks, security, unified communications, video-conference systems and solutions, and telepresence. The services provided cover the entire technology cycle, from diagnosis and consultancy to rendering remote managed services, and including the design, implementation and integration of solutions. Unitronics is present in major companies of the private sector, the public administration, as well as in telecommunications operators being Inova a major shareholder.

Unitronics has also holds the following certifications: ISO 9001 (Quality Management System), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management System), ISO 27001 (Information Security Management System) and IS0 20000 (IT Service Management System).

For more information: www.unitronics.es.

About Cisco

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is the world leader of Internet networks which is transforming the way in which people connect, communicate and collaborate. For further information on Cisco, go to http://www.cisco.com orhttp://www.cisco.es

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Cloud Computing Security Benefits Dispel Adoption Barrier for Small to Midsize Businesses

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Cloud Computing Security Benefits Dispel Adoption Barrier for Small to Midsize Businesses

May 14, 2012

Cloud services reduce time and money spent managing security and increase protection against cyberthreats, Microsoft study shows.

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REDMOND, Wash. — May 14, 2012 — Research released today by Microsoft Corp. shows that small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are gaining significant IT security benefits from using the cloud, according to a new Microsoft study in five geographies.

Cloud Security Benefits for SMBs (U.S.)

May 14, 2012

Cloud security is a key topic of discussion for many considering the cloud. Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group conducted research in the small and midsize businesses (SMB) sector in the U.S.

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The study shows that 35 percent of U.S. companies surveyed have experienced noticeably higher levels of security since moving to the cloud.1 In addition, 32 percent say they spend less time worrying about the threat of cyberattacks. U.S. SMBs using the cloud also spend 32 percent less time each week managing security than companies not using the cloud. They are also five times more likely to have reduced what they spend on managing security as a percentage of overall IT budget.

“There’s a perception that security is a barrier to cloud adoption,” said Adrienne Hall, general manager, Microsoft Trustworthy Computing. “Yet when companies embrace and invest in cloud services, they find the benefits far outweigh previous concerns.”Time and money spent managing security prior to using cloud services is being reinvested by SMBs to grow their businesses and be more competitive. The survey shows the following in the U.S.:

•Of SMBs that use the cloud, 41 percent said they were able to employ more staff in roles that directly benefit sales or business growth, 39 percent invest in more product development or innovation, and 37 percent experienced improved agility and competitiveness.

•More than half of those surveyed (52 percent) said using the cloud enabled them to add new products and services that benefit their business more quickly and securely.

•Of those surveyed, 42 percent said the cloud made it easier for them to scale their business to explore new markets.

“Any solution that helps SMBs’ bottom line has to be good for them and the economy,” said Ryan Brock, vice president of Worldwide SMB Cloud & Channels at Access Markets International Partners. “When it comes to security, the cloud offers SMBs a level of expertise, specialist resources and investment that they cannot hope to match. This translates into cost and time savings and better protection against cyberthreats, which gives them the freedom to innovate and grow their business.”

An example of a company that has realized the security benefits of the cloud is SkyWire Media Inc., a small business in Nevada that helps other businesses personalize and distribute rich content to mobile devices. As a small business, it was a challenge for SkyWire to keep up to date with security management. After transitioning to Windows Intune, a cloud-based management and security solution, the company no longer faces the same problem.

By simplifying software distribution and streamlining the security upgrade process, Windows Intune helped SkyWire save $90,000 (U.S.) in IT costs over a span of six months, a savings of $15,000 (U.S.) per month. By retiring third-party antivirus and antimalware tools, the company was able to redeploy the cost of overseeing these processes.

“Since we started using Windows Intune, support calls are down by 70 percent,” said Thomas Castleberry, chief operating officer, SkyWire. “We can now prevent malware before it interferes with the productivity of our salespeople — and this means they can go out and win new business.”The study, commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by research company comScore Inc., polled companies with between 100 and 250 PCs in the U.S., Singapore, Malaysia, India and Hong Kong.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

¹ For the purpose of this research, cloud users were defined as companies that used a cloud service via a subscription model.

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Delivers New Oracle Business Accelerators for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

New Tools Provide Decision Makers with Rapid Access to Real-Time, Business Critical Information and Actionable Insight to Grow Their Businesses

Redwood Shores, Calif. – May 9, 2012

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To provide CFOs and executive decision makers of midsize companies with rapid access to critical information and faster time to benefit, Oracle today announced new Oracle Business Accelerators for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications for both the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.

Available through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), and in some locations Oracle Consulting, Oracle Business Accelerators are powerful, easy-to-use, rapid implementation tools, templates and wizards developed by Oracle to achieve faster time to benefit and improved return on investment (ROI).

Oracle Business Accelerators for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications provide a structured and guided approach to deploying Oracle’s Business Intelligence Applications with pre-built integrations and comprehensive analytics reporting functionality that enable rapid deployment and reduced implementation risk.

The new Oracle Business Accelerators for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications enable companies to rapidly connect Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12 through 12.1.3 and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 and 9.1 transaction systems to the Oracle Business Intelligence dashboards.

The Oracle Business Accelerators configure the data warehouse based on the company’s industry leading business flows mapped to the analytics dashboards.

For example, customers can now track key business metrics and analytics across their order-to-cash business flow processes.

Oracle Business Accelerators for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications help expedite delivery of the following out-of-the-box benefits of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications:

Over 1,500 Business Metrics in 17 interactive dashboards across 36 industry leading business flows are available for Oracle E-Business Suite decision makers. These include comprehensive Financials, Procurement and Spend, Supply Chain, Order Management and Projects analytics capabilities.

Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne decision makers can now benefit from more than 700 Business Metrics in nine dashboards across 15 industry leading business flows covering Financials, Supply Chain and Order Management.

Supporting Quotes

“Oracle Business Accelerators help Ndevr deliver ideal business intelligence solutions to our customers that are simple to deploy and help enable a fast return on investment,” said Maureen Clifford, CEO, Ndevr. “By utilizing Oracle Business Accelerators to implement business intelligence applications, we feel confident that our customers can be ready to tackle and solve difficult business problems.”

“Oracle Business Accelerators for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications deliver world-class functionality to Oracle E-Business Suite customers, providing fast implementations, low total cost of ownership and a real return on investment,” said Haider Tirmizi, CEO, AbbuSys. “AbbuSys has worked with Oracle to offer these solutions to power midsize enterprises with the real-time data and cross operational visibility needed to improve decision-making capabilities. With Oracle Business Accelerators, we feel confident that our customers are prepared to succeed in increasingly complex business scenarios."

“Oracle Business Accelerators help reduce implementation discovery, setup and testing project phases,” said Mark Keever, group vice president, Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies. “Now, with new functionality for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, CFOs and other decision making executives at midsize companies can quickly gain access to over 1,500 key business metrics directly connected to end-to-end business flows, achieving a significant reduction in setup and configuration time to obtain out of the box business intelligence dashboards. These capabilities provide executives with the intelligent decision-making tools that are the foundation of every growing, successful business.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle for Midsize Companies

Oracle Business Accelerators

Oracle Business Accelerators for Partners

Oracle Accelerate

Oracle Accelerate Solutions

Oracle PartnerNetwork Knowledge Zone: Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies

Facebook page for Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies

Oracle Midsize Customer Success Stories

Webcast: Why Midsize Companies Need Top Tier ERP

Webcast: Overview of Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies

Oracle Midsize Resource Center

About Oracle Applications

Over 65,000 customers worldwide rely on Oracle's complete, open and integrated enterprise applications to achieve superior results. Oracle provides a secure path for customers to benefit from the latest technology advances that performance. Oracle Applications Unlimited is Oracle's commitment to customer choice through continuous investment and innovation in current applications offerings. Oracle's next-generation Fusion Applications are built upon that commitment, and are designed to work with and evolve Oracle's Applications Unlimited offerings. Oracle's lifetime support policy helps ensure customers will continue to have a choice in upgrade paths, based on their enterprise needs. For more information on the latest Oracle Applications releases go to www.oracle.com/applications.

About Oracle
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

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HP Launches Imaging and Printing Offerings to Enhance Efficiency for Businesses of All Sizes

New solutions, including world's first mobile all-in-one printer, enable businesses to better capture, connect and communicate information

Topics:ePrint, Mobility, Technology and Innovation

SHANGHAI -- HP today announced 15 new imaging and printing products, services and solutions with enhanced productivity tools, new security solutions and expanded mobility offerings to enable businesses of all sizes to capture, connect and communicate more securely and efficiently.  

The new offerings include:

• A new HP Officejet printer, four new HP LaserJet printers and an HP Scanjet providing small and medium businesses (SMB) and enterprise customers professional-quality documents and fast print speeds, along with the ability to extend the office beyond its physical location.
• Ten new and enhanced workflow solutions, applications and security offerings to increase efficiency, improve business processes and help businesses control and secure information-management processes.
• HP Digital Workflow Integration Services, an extension of HP Managed Print Services, which deliver powerful solution capabilities resulting in access to information by integrating back-end systems for real-time business-process optimization, and providing customers a single point of contact to manage the engagement.

“HP is overhauling our entire line of MFPs and today begins an onslaught of intelligent new web-enabled, cloud-enabled and solutions-enabled printing devices that meet the evolving business needs of our customers,” said Ron Coughlin, senior vice president and general manager, LaserJet and Enterprise Solutions, HP.” By combining the strength of an innovative product portfolio, cloud capabilities, industry-leading management tools and a broad range of solutions, HP can meet the unique information management, workflow and printing needs of the smallest SMB up to the largest enterprise better than anyone else.”

Improve flexibility with new printing and scanning productsThe HP Officejet 150 Mobile All-in-One is the world’s first mobile all-in-one printer⁽¹⁾ and an ideal companion for business professionals who need a compact, durable solution for printing, scanning and copying while on the go. It features built-in wireless Bluetooth® for printing from select notebooks and smartphones, and a long-lasting lithium-ion battery that provides enough power to print up to 500 pages on a full charge.

The HP LaserJet Pro 400 M401 is HP’s new web-connected mono single-function laser printer, and theHP LaserJet Pro 400 MFP M425 is the company’s first web-connected mono laser multifunction printer (MFP). Both feature advanced connectivity that meets the expanding needs of fast-paced SMB environments, including support for all HP ePrint⁽²⁾ solutions with new wireless direct capability, and support for Apple™ AirPrint⁽³⁾ and Google CloudPrint, which allow employees to easily print from their smartphone or tablet from virtually anywhere.⁽²⁾ In addition, the 3.5-inch touchscreen control panel allows users to manage print functions and access business applications directly from the device.

The high-quality color HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 color MFP M575 and the black-and-white HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 MFP M525 feature a larger 8-inch, full-color touchscreen with HP Quick Sets for one-touch workflows. HP Quick Sets include send-to options directly on the control panel and allow users to preview, edit and zoom images for accurate results. HP FutureSmart 2 firmware enables businesses to simplify software updates and centrally manage tasks across their entire fleet with HP Web Jetadmin. The MFPs also support HP ePrint,⁽²⁾ Apple AirPrint⁽³⁾ and Google CloudPrint. HP Auto-On/Auto-Off Technology automatically turns the printer off when not in use, resulting in reduced energy use.⁽⁴⁾

HP printers are designed to work with Original HP supplies as a finely tuned print system that delivers high-quality text and true-to-life color documents with every page printed. Designed for optimal performance with minimal environmental impact, Original HP supplies offer superior reliability, which reduces the need to reprint, and many cartridges are made from recycled plastic. 

The HP Scanjet Enterprise 7000 s2 has a compact desktop design with HP Precision Feed and AccuPage technologies to offer flawless and efficient performance, while the ability to “Scan to Sharepoint” and “Scan to Cloud” extends its capabilities beyond the desktop.

Manage information with HP Workflow SolutionsNew mobile printing solutions include HP ePrint Software,⁽⁵⁾ which enables PC printing to HP ePrinters at home or at work, and to HP ePrint Public Print Locations (PPL) when workers are on the go. The new HP Printer Control app enables users to manage device settings and supplies, and print, copy and scan wirelessly to the new HP ePrint-enabled printers. HP ePrint App for Apple and BlackBerry® enhances and replaces the popular HP ePrint Home & Biz App to enable users to more easily print from a smartphone or tablet, and receive intelligent recommendations on where to send prints.⁽¹⁾ TheUniversal Email Address for HP ePrint PPLs allow HP’s large PPL network to publish and promote a single email address for mobile print jobs. Any end user connected to the internet with an email-capable device can send a print job to the email address and retrieve the print job at any of the PPLs.   

To simplify workflows, HP Capture and Route provides a cost-effective way to digitize information so customers can find and retrieve documents faster than ever before. The HP Capture and Route solution enables users to easily convert paper documents into a variety of digital formats—including Microsoft® Word .doc and .docx, JPG, PDF, RTF and TIF—making it one-button simple to route information where it is needed. 

HP and Kofax Communication Server is a centralized communications platform designed to ensure reliable exchange of business-critical messages among applications, devices and people. Additionally, customers can identify, track and log senders and recipients of incoming and outgoing email, SMS, MMS, voice and fax.

To ease manageability of the printing infrastructure, HP Jetdirect 2700w USB Wireless Print Serverprovides high-speed wireless printing plus advanced enterprise-class security, enabling customers to place printers wherever needed, without wires,⁽⁶⁾ while HP Web Jetadmin 10.3 provides enhanced performance, improved workflow management and additional device support for more control and ease of use. This fleet-management application is available at no additional cost, and is used for installing, configuring, troubleshooting and managing networked and PC-connected MFPs, printers and scanners.

Improve peace of mind with HP Security SolutionsPrinting security is simplified with HP Imaging and Printing Security Center, an industry first in security management⁽⁷⁾ that provides policy-based security for HP printing fleets, and now includes broader HP enterprise device support, enhanced fleet risk reporting, improved usability and HP Instant-On Security, which helps secure devices as soon as they are added to the network. The solution is now available for purchase through HP Managed Enterprise Solutions and HP Partner Document Solutions Specialists.

In addition, HP Access Control Printing Solutions has newly added features, including server-less pull printing, which can lower costs; dual-factor authentication, which adds an additional level to safeguard; and the ability to send jobs via email, which increases productivity. Now HP Access Control Printing Solutions are even easier to purchase via an Express or Professional bundle or modularly, and they offer secure print authentication and job accounting designed to help provide secure access to printing devices and information.

Pricing and availability⁽⁸⁾

• The HP Officejet 150 Mobile All-in-One is priced at $399 and is expected to begin shipping in June.
• The HP LaserJet Pro 400 M401n, M401dn and M401dw are priced $299, $399 and $499, respectively, and are expected to be available worldwide on June 1.
• The HP LaserJet Pro 400 MFP M425dn and M425dw are priced at $499 and $529, respectively, and are expected to be available worldwide on June 1.   
• The HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 MFP M525dn is priced at $1,799. The HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 MFP M425f is priced at $2,099. Both are expected to be available worldwide on June 1.
• The HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 color MFP M575dn starts at $2,299. The HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 color MFP M575f is priced at $2,699. Both are expected to be available worldwide June 1.
• The HP Scanjet Enterprise 7000 s2 is priced at $1,099 and is available worldwide immediately.
• HP solutions and services pricing and availability varies by company size and region.

For more information on today’s announcements, please visitwww.hp.com/go/ppsinfluencersummit2012

HP’s premier client event, HP Discover, takes place June 4-7 in Las Vegas. 

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(1) Based on market research of comparable A4 mobile inkjet printers less than $500 as of September 2011.
(2) Requires an internet connection to the printer. Feature works with any connected internet- and email-capable device. Requires HP Web Services Account Registration. Print times may vary. Some HP LaserJet printers may require a firmware upgrade. A list of supported documents and image types is available at www.hp.com/go/eprintcenter. A list of additional solutions is available at www.hp.com/go/mobile-printing-solutions.
(3) Supports the following devices running iOS 4.2 or later: iPad, iPad 2, iPhone (3GS or later), iPod touch (third generation or later). Works with HP AirPrint-enabled printers and requires the printer be connected to the same network as the iOS device. Wireless performance is dependent upon physical environment and distance from the access point.
(4) HP Auto-On/Auto-Off capabilities subject to printer and settings; may require a firmware upgrade.
(5) Requires software installation, an internet or direct wireless connection, and HP Web Services Account Registration. Accounts can be created at www.hp.com/go/eprintercenter. Print times may vary. HP ePrint Software works with Microsoft Windows®, Windows XP, Windows Vista® 32-and 64-bit versions, Windows 7 32- and 64-bit versions, or Mac® OS X® 10.5 and 10.6. Software download is available at www.hp.com/go/eprintmobiledriver. Use of HP ePrint Software at HP ePrint Public Print Locations (PPLs) requires separately purchased wireless internet service. Availability and cost of printing varies by PPL. Wireless direct printing requires the printer to be wireless-enabled and in range of the PC. Some HP LaserJet printers may require a firmware upgrade.
(6) Wireless performance is dependent upon physical environment and distance from access point.
(7) Based on an HP assessment of printer manufacturer security offerings in market as of Nov. 1, 2011.
(8) Estimated U.S. street prices. Actual prices may vary.

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