HP Introduces Device-As-A-Service Programme For Indian businesses

The fools crib about changing times, the wise change themselves. Rajiv Srivastava, the managing director of HP Inc, India believes in changing with time rather than falling behind. Sticking to this ideology, HP has now started offering Device as a service or Destop-as-a-service (DaaS). Under this program, they offer devices to organizations for an extended period of time along with other services.  Once an organization signs up with them, they need to pay a monthly price for every seat they take and along with this HP gives them services like support from HP, including PC configuration and software installation, on-site break-fix and data migration along with the ability to upgrade to the latest HP devices for subsequent contract period.

This is the company's way of catering to the needs of the changing times by introducing the Daas service. This was started in India with the sales team of Maruti Suzuki. They were given tablets with customization as required by the company. This takes the typical leasing program a step further where the care and maintenance and the eventual disposal, all is covered in one contract, rather than having three separate ones.

HP announced this program about 6 months ago at their innovation day, with an aim of covering Asia pacific and Japan. This will be a big help to businesses and organizations as they no longer have to invest their resources in looking for infrastructure and then maintain them, as HP will take of this for them. This is sure to take a load off the minds of the heads of various businesses and help them work smoothly and with ease.

HP says that HP DaaS frees customers from having to pay the upfront costs of buying new PCs, it incorporates services, support and eventual disposal as part of an overall services agreement.

HP Introduces Device-As-A-Service Programme For Indian businesses

The fools crib about changing times, the wise change themselves. Rajiv Srivastava, the managing director of HP Inc, India believes in changing with time rather than falling behind. Sticking to this ideology, HP has now started offering Device as a service or Destop-as-a-service (DaaS). Under this program, they offer devices to organizations for an extended period of time along with other services.  Once an organization signs up with them, they need to pay a monthly price for every seat they take and along with this HP gives them services like support from HP, including PC configuration and software installation, on-site break-fix and data migration along with the ability to upgrade to the latest HP devices for subsequent contract period.

This is the company's way of catering to the needs of the changing times by introducing the Daas service. This was started in India with the sales team of Maruti Suzuki. They were given tablets with customization as required by the company. This takes the typical leasing program a step further where the care and maintenance and the eventual disposal, all is covered in one contract, rather than having three separate ones.

HP announced this program about 6 months ago at their innovation day, with an aim of covering Asia pacific and Japan. This will be a big help to businesses and organizations as they no longer have to invest their resources in looking for infrastructure and then maintain them, as HP will take of this for them. This is sure to take a load off the minds of the heads of various businesses and help them work smoothly and with ease.

HP says that HP DaaS frees customers from having to pay the upfront costs of buying new PCs, it incorporates services, support and eventual disposal as part of an overall services agreement.

Snapfish, once bought by HP is now on sale

Snapfish, a web based photo sharing app owned by Hewlett-Packard Co. will probably go on sale in the coming months.  According to sources, HP is contemplating selling Snapfish and has also started having private meetings and discussions with multiple private equity and buyers regarding the same.

The web based photo sharing app was bought by HP in 2005 for a whopping amount of $300 million. The company is considered a non-core part of the company and sits within HP’s printing and personal systems group. No one from HP is ready to comment on the sale for now.

Snapfish has around 90 million members from 12 countries who have stored about two billion unique photos online.

HP is considering sticking to its knitting as it is eyeing a successful second quarter of sales growth in a row after an eleven year declining revenue period. HP posted a 1 percent year over year sales uptick to $27.6 billion for the fiscal Q3 2014. The product which did wonders for the company are its PCs. They showed a 12 percent increase in its revenue for the period.

In 2013, Hewlett-Packard Co. had replaced Todd Bradley, long time head of printing and personal business with Dion Weisler, who was a former Lenovo Executive. After leaving the tech company, Bradley joined Tibco Software Inc. as the company’s President.

Snapfish is facing tough competition from another online photo sharing services provider called Shutterfly Inc. in the sale market. A lot of prospective buyers have expressed interest in both the companies.

According to sources, Shutterfly had already hired Frank Quattrone’s Qatalyst Partners this summer in order to search for a buyer, and it is expected to finish its work in another couple of weeks.  Apparently Shutterfly’s asking price is a whopping $ 2 billion, an amount which could dwarf what HP could ask for Snapfish.

Snapfish, once bought by HP is now on sale

Snapfish, a web based photo sharing app owned by Hewlett-Packard Co. will probably go on sale in the coming months.  According to sources, HP is contemplating selling Snapfish and has also started having private meetings and discussions with multiple private equity and buyers regarding the same.

The web based photo sharing app was bought by HP in 2005 for a whopping amount of $300 million. The company is considered a non-core part of the company and sits within HP’s printing and personal systems group. No one from HP is ready to comment on the sale for now.

Snapfish has around 90 million members from 12 countries who have stored about two billion unique photos online.

HP is considering sticking to its knitting as it is eyeing a successful second quarter of sales growth in a row after an eleven year declining revenue period. HP posted a 1 percent year over year sales uptick to $27.6 billion for the fiscal Q3 2014. The product which did wonders for the company are its PCs. They showed a 12 percent increase in its revenue for the period.

In 2013, Hewlett-Packard Co. had replaced Todd Bradley, long time head of printing and personal business with Dion Weisler, who was a former Lenovo Executive. After leaving the tech company, Bradley joined Tibco Software Inc. as the company’s President.

Snapfish is facing tough competition from another online photo sharing services provider called Shutterfly Inc. in the sale market. A lot of prospective buyers have expressed interest in both the companies.

According to sources, Shutterfly had already hired Frank Quattrone’s Qatalyst Partners this summer in order to search for a buyer, and it is expected to finish its work in another couple of weeks.  Apparently Shutterfly’s asking price is a whopping $ 2 billion, an amount which could dwarf what HP could ask for Snapfish.