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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

HP, Xerox, Ricoh and Dell: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Remote Monitoring Ricoh announced it a few weeks ago... Managed Service Providers are wondering when HP will make it so... Xerox has been writing to open APIs... Dell has been running a pilot program for months... What gives and why should we care?

HP Going after a Piece of The Handout - Obama Stimulus Package for Health Care


HP is focusing in on the Health Care vertical with new programs for VAR's.

Obama's recently passed stimulus package includes $20 million for health-care infrastructure.


"We will make sure that every doctor's office and hospital in this country is using cutting-edge technology and electronic medical records so that we can cut red tape, prevent medical mistakes and help save billions of dollars each year," Obama said.

HP has also launched a new channel program to help its resellers grab a slice of the pie as well by creating a new business document management program for the health-care vertical.

The package is composed of HP hardware and software and is some cases carries its own SKU.

HP's new hardware is integrated with Singapore-based Aquarius Soft's ChartTab Medical Document software. ChartTab capabilities include adding patients and documents through a touch interface and securing charts to meet HIPAA requirements for private health information. In addition to scanning, records can also be e-mailed, faxed and printed.

"We're also approaching more traditional VARs who haven't made the jump into document management solutions yet," Brown said.

Learn more here.
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DOTC impressions - I have been through the basic training and introduction of this program/product. This solution is turn key and easy to use. The target market is small to medium, independent medical offices.

IBM Buys HP. Canon takes Panasonic



In an unbelievable step today, two of the largest technology companies swallowed up one of their peers - not since the Ricoh/IKON deal has the industry been shaken so deeply.

Tokyo, Japan -

In a press release today, Canon announced the purchase of Panasonic, "...today, Canon moves forward boldly. Today, we shall incorporate color-coded machines. As the speed of each machine increase, the color will change from dark blue to vibrant red..."

Armonk, New York -

In related news, IBM today announced it's intentions to purchase HP. "...today, IBM begins it's quest to retake the printer market...also, we are proud to announce OS/2v2009, our newest and greatest operating system for the desktop..."

Outside of both press conferences, sightings of dozens of pigs flying were reported.

Happy April 1st.

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