|
HP South Africa forms part of the Europe, Middle East and Africa
(EMEA) region and delivers the same exacting global standards
within a local context while ensuring our mission remains constant:
To invent technologies and services that drive business value,
create social benefit and improve the lives of customers
– with a focus on affecting the greatest number of
people possible.
In-line with the global structure, HP South Africa operates through
three core business units and is headed up by local managing director,
Thoko Mokgosi-Mwantembe.
- Imaging and Printing Group (IPG)
– HP is the leading provider of printing and imaging
solutions for both business and consumer use. IPG includes printer
hardware, all-in-ones, digital imaging devices such as cameras
and scanners, and associated supplies and accessories. It also
is expanding into the commercial printing market. IPG is lead
by Thierry Boulanger.
- Personal Systems Group (PSG) –
focuses on supplying simple, reliable and affordable
personal-computing solutions and devices for home and business
use, including desktop PCs, notebooks, workstations, thin clients,
smart handhelds and personal devices. PSG is headed up by PSG
Country Manager, Paul Boshoff.
- Technology Solutions Group (TSG)
– encompasses enterprise storage and systems, software
and services. TSG, lead by Oliver Fortuin, is focused on making
the Adaptive Enterprise and Smart Office value propositions
real for Enterprise, Public Sector and SMB customers.
HP South Africa believes that true empowerment is about the upliftment
and nurturing of success in people without prejudice, unlocking
the potential of all sectors of society. Our employees are representative
of the new South Africa and their technology expertise is set
to deliver offerings that truly work for our clients and partners.
Co-operating with other solution providers is vital to the success
of complex IT projects. HP has therefore cultivated and sustained
partnerships with leading software suppliers, systems integrators,
and equipment providers worldwide. Locally Microsoft, SAP, Oracle,
Accenture and Intel, to name a few, ensure that HP's success can
be measured on what we do together to deliver effective, low cost
solutions.
The channel is HP's DNA and we constantly strive to ensure that
a fundamentally stable relationship is forged between ourselves
and our partners thus the introduction recently of HP's PartnerONE
programme. A core-element of its go-to-market-strategy, PartnerONE,
is designed to enhance partner deployment structures by improving
skills and increasing profitability through first-class training
and certification schemes run alongside on-going HP program management.
As one of the largest African markets operating within the EMEA
region HP South Africa's success is under-pinned by the success
of the community within which it operates.
HP has a long history with South Africa and our roots have been
firmly entrenched within the country and its communities since
1971. We recognise that financial capital alone is not the greatest
wealth we can bring to developing the country; it is human capital,
experience and knowledge and the ability to use those skills to
empower local communities.
Corporate Social Investment (CSI) is a business imperative for
HP and one of its boldest CSI initiatives is the NEPAD e-schools
initiative which, upon completion will boost Information Communication
Technology (ICT) skills within schools across the continent and
provide connectivity to the NEPAD e-School network and the Internet.
The NEPAD e-Schools Project was first publicly announced at the
2003 Africa Economic Summit in Durban, South Africa. The scope
of the project focuses on providing an end-to-end education solution
that will utilise Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
to connect schools to the NEPAD e-schools network and the Internet.
In addition to connectivity, solutions will provide content and
learning material, as well as establish health points at schools
in support of the NEPAD e-Health Programme.
Furthermore, there is the HP Business Academy which fast–
tracks HP's Black Economic Empowerment resellers, empowering them
with the skills they need to compete successfully in the business
environment.
In addition to providing resources and technology, HP often provides
employees to work directly with communities to develop and implement
their programmes. The aim is to ensure sustainability of these
initiatives through knowledge sharing and transfer of skills over
and above the technology we provide.
|
Printable version
