Enterprise Services Blog

By PT Umphress, Enterprise Services Global Marketing

Here is a summary of the Enterprise Services blog topics for this past week:

• Will innovative technologies change the way companies view Unified Communications in 2012?
• Rise of the Virtual Office – do you have the tools to develop a robust mobile strategy?
• HP Labs Annual Report for 2011
• Join HP at the TDWI World Conference - A Data Strategy for the Enterprise
• Oklahoma Health Care Authority Launches Online Medicaid Enrollment
• Can you have grand challenges in your organization?
• The Musical Journey of Applications Software Development According to Forrester
• New possibilities for business process optimization
• Pink – no way! What influences women when buying tech products?
• The Super Bowl of Applications Performance

Just like the ancient city of Jericho, the walls of the traditional office are crumbling down.  Welcome to the world of the virtual office where the physical and the traditional 9-5 boundaries of the workday have disappeared for many workers. 

Cloud computing and the proliferation of wireless devices and mobile apps is helping to accelerate the rapidly changing nature of the office.  However, to maximize productivity, the mobile workforce requires the tools to perform ALL the tasks while on-the-go that they can do within a traditional office space, including the ability to print from their mobile device. 

HP Enterprise Services leveraged its flexible Medicaid Management System design to create a new automated enrollment subsystem for the Oklahoma Health Care Authority. View the video and read the case study.

Music has been in the innermost corners of the human brain ever since the dawn of time. The mathematical nuances, the variations in pitches, the fundamental set of notes transcend all cultural and geographical boundaries. With no communication infrastructure in place, it is fascinating how different civilizations came up with the same set of notes being packaged in different ways to result in synthetic music.

Which makes one wonder if there is a sublime message that the human mind is capable of delivering through music. Perhaps, it brings out the predictive nature of our innermost thoughts that are labeled as that sixth sense. Is the human mind capable of communicating a cosmic message about life in the future through music? That is what one wonders when you read the Forrester BT 2020 paper by Phil Murphy (Forrester subscription required).

I consider myself a pretty tech savvy woman (although I am sure my 4 boys would laugh at this comment). Do I buy tech products based on if they are marketed specifically for women – i.e.. Pink? I recently read the article “LL Cool G: Ladies Love Cool Gadgets Too, Says Study” by Jordan Crook that has made me stop and think about what attracts me to gadgets.