Hewlett Packard has said it saved an enormous sum of $3.5 billion at the end of last financial year, 2007; for optimizing the usage of printing and imaging solution technology.
Emmanuel Eze, lead, Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), West Africa, revealed this last week in Lagos, during the company’s Open Day tagged ‘HP – Technology for better business outcomes’ and advised corporate organizations to save tremendous costs by optimally applying technology in their operations.
He said that companies achieved average direct cost savings between 8-41 per cent by implementing a managed imaging and output environment, even as enterprises that actively manage their printer fleets can save between 10 percent to 30 percent of their overall printing costs.
Eze, who later took participants comprising IT heads of organizations, on products demonstration, noted that the imaging and printing network environment is quietly becoming a significant business asset, adding that after IT standardization and consolidation, companies are turning to imaging and printing to increase competitiveness and enhance their bottom line.
The IPG lead, represented by Ken Dibor of the same unit, listed three steps to optimizing and simplifying the enterprise printing and copying network to include fleet optimization through balanced deployment, HP Total Print Management (TPM) /fleet management, as well as digital workflow optimization.
The TPM is an integrated, scalable solution that right-sizes and manages the imaging and printing fleet to reduce costs, while improving IT and end-user productivity. Its key components include intelligent devices, scalable services and management software.
Listed benefits of TPM include transparency on printing behaviour and needs, design of an optimized fleet, increased device utilization without compromising productivity, standardized and simplified infrastructure, optimized network integration, end-to-end security, state-of-the-art fleet management processes, and cost transparency and control.
He also advocated for the use of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) concept which originated with the Gartner group in 1987 and is a methodology used for evaluating direct and indirect costs related not only to the cost of purchase but all aspects in the further use and maintenance of the equipment considered.
It also provides a cost basis for determining the economic value of an investment in any financial benefit analysis (e.g. ROI).
According to him, HP can help reduce TCO by saving costs through job accounting, rule based printing/follow me printing, easy integration, configuration and installation, flexible set of global services.
He also added HP’s Instant-on technology, duplexing options for automated double-sided printing, remote/pro-active troubleshooting, virtual maintenance-free devices, HP smart printing technology and high quality, highly reliable products; as choices available.
In meeting imaging and printing needs of organizations, he said HP utilizes the power of printing and imaging technology to meet clients’ business objectives, developing enterprise-wide printing and imaging strategy including security requirements to achieve seamless global services from a single source.
It saves on printing and imaging network environment without compromising end user productivity, adapting easily to changing needs and optimizes digital workflow process integration.
