Tangible solutions now.

Hewlett-Packard's Enterprise Media Summit 2006 kicked off at Singapore's Grand Hyatt with an opening keynote by Tom Iannotti, Managing Director for HP in APAC and Japan. While only two months into his position, Iannotti had taken the opportunity to visit key customer markets and updated over 75 interested media members with an overview of business for HP in the region.“We're doing well.We are never going to be satisfied,”was how Iannotti summed it up.

HP has reason to expect more. A number of HP's important clients have already decided to take up HP's proposition of the adaptive enterprise and infrastructure - an ideal state at any one time, of the self-sustainable next generation data center which aims to cut operating/maintenance costs and channel saved funds to innovation and growth.

HP themselves probably serve as a prime example; they have the unenviable task of reducing their organisation’s IT spending by a whopping USD1 billion.

The adaptive enterprise (AE)
Introduced a mere few years ago, what that appeared at first as abstract concepts, appeared once more this year in Singapore with a more tangible road map and more importantly, products and services. This time, the Chief Information Officer's (CIO) role was clearer, their objectives were identified, solutions formulated and ready to be applied. IDC's Puni Rajah, saw 2006 as the year that there is increased demand from CEOs for product and service innovation, a responsibility which CIOs have to juggle with their daily duties.

“CIOs are part of the business innovation team,: said Ganesh Ayyar, VP for HP Services in APAC and Japan. After all, technology besides creativity enables innovation and depending on the organisation, CIOs sometimes hold the key.

The journey there
CEOs, from no matter which industry or business they come from, are turning more and more to IT to not just manage data and information, but also to create new products and services, monitor businesses, increase responsiveness and ultimately customer care. If funds are going into maintenance