“HP is empowering our partners to deliver amazing experiences for customers by reinventing printing for an on-demand world,” said Enrique Lores, President, Imaging & Printing at HP Inc. “As the cyber landscape evolves and the path of work transforms, we will drive partner success with innovative new services and solutions for printing easily and securely, enabling increased services and revenue opportunities.”

To stay a step ahead of an increasingly challenging threat landscape,, the company engineers what it claims to be the world’s most secure printers, secure by design, with layers of protection for the device, data and documents to help organizations defend their network and company data.

At HP Reinvent, HP is launching HP Connection Inspector, a new intelligent embedded security feature created by HP Labs to help printers stay one step ahead of malware attacks with advanced self-healing capabilities. The technology is unique in that it can inspect outbound network connections typically abused by malware, determine what is normal and then stop suspicious activity. If compromised, it will automatically trigger a reboot to initiate HP Sure Start self-healing procedures, all without IT intervention.
Partners can help customers upgrade their fleet with resilient HP Enterprise printers that feature the latest HP security technologies such as HP Connection Inspector, available via a FutureSmart firmware update later this year2.

The workplace today is collaborative, flexible, project-oriented, and unbounded by time or geography. Across businesses large and small, mobility is transforming the workplace. Printing has not evolved to keep up with this new reality, and today it is still too difficult to print away from your desk, while working from other locations or from a mobile device.

HP Roam is a new universal business printing experience that will reshape how innovative businesses print. It enables mobile professionals to print anytime from any location and any device, and retrieve their prints securely from a growing set of print locations at the office, at home or at public sites. Print jobs can be submitted to the cloud as content is being consumed or created and picked up at the location of choice without having to worry about device to printer compatibility or connectivity. In addition, GPS and Bluetooth technologies allow for fast auto-discovery of printers while authentication ensures a protected, secure release of prints.

Key HP Roam features include One universal print experience wherein replacing traditional drivers and mobile apps, users can print from any of their devices (mobile or desktop) when they just select HP Roam instead of a specific printer. There is a personal print queue that securely add to and store print jobs in the cloud, retrievable at any time. The Auto-discovery – When users come within 6 meters of any HP Roam-enabled printer (in their office or their client’s office), the mobile app will send a notification reminder to release the prints in their cloud queue. If away from the office, the app will show nearby public print locations to select and connect to maps to find the provider including thousands at hotels, libraries and airports. It also secure release via authentication– Select the items to be printed, verify identity using a mobile device, personal pin or ID card to select and release the prints securely

HP Roam helps simplify the print experience while creating new service and revenue opportunities for customers and partners. Resellers can expand and differentiate their managed print services to leverage the cloud, using a simple deployment that minimizes staff training and service costs. Offered first as a business print solution, HP Roam will be available in spring 2018.

HP also announced the launch of HP Solutions Hub, a new workflow optimization platform for partners to differentiate their services with custom workflows for paper-intensive verticals such as healthcare, legal, and financial services. This cloud and mobile-centric architecture includes connectors and templates that make it easy to turn HP multifunction printers into custom work environments, so that paper becomes a natural extension of the digital experience.

The software development kit includes an open platform architecture designed to scale and customize to workflows in vastly different business environments, creating virtually unlimited opportunities for partners to grow and differentiate their offerings far beyond basic print services.

HP Solutions Hub allows for the creation of deeply integrated workflows that include mobile access as well as traditional sign-in for secure and context-sensitive experiences. HP Solutions Hub is available in spring 2018.

Also at HP Reinvent, the company unveiled its next generation of Smart Device Services (SDS) 2.0, a set of cloud tools and device-based sensing capabilities designed to dramatically enhance the service experience. With Smart Device Services 2.0, HP is delivering new use cases to empower partners to achieve the industry’s highest uptime and lowest service costs including part failure prediction, enhanced diagnostics, fleet optimization, enhanced collection and billing and device health alert.
SDS 2.0 will be available in spring 2018 via existing industry leading third party fleet management software for HP resellers.

The company has expanded its A3 portfolio, originally announced in September 2016, with the availability of two new platforms in a number of different configurations for both transactional and contractual channels. The new A3 printers and MFPs enable partners to deliver a powerful customer experience by offering affordable color via HP’s PageWide printing technology and maximum device uptime through SDS 2.0. The portfolio also features enhanced security features unmatched in the marketplace such as HP Connection Inspector, also announced today, as well as HP Sure Start, Run-time intrusion detection and whitelisting, making them the world’s most secure printers1. HP’s new A3 printers and MFPs will be available through qualified channel partners, or directly through HP. Read more here.

In addition, HP announced the launch of new workflow scanners, including Digital Sender Flow (A4) and ScanJet Enterprise Flow (A3). Leveraging the same FutureSmart firmware used by HP’s line of enterprise printers and MFPs, the new scanners come equipped with leading extensibility, compatibility and embedded device security.
HP also announced updates to its line of home and small-business printers with the introduction of new HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M180/181 series and HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M280/281 series printers , offering legendary quality, extraordinary value and improved efficiency for micro- and small-businesses. Today’s new color LaserJet Pro printers enable fastest in-class duplex print speeds and fastest in-class first page out, high-quality prints, easy cartridge setup and printer protection through JetIntelligence, easy mobile printing via the HP Smart App, and enhanced security features to help protect business documents from power on to print out

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Held in the capital city of Manama, the event was the first of a series of Canon for Business events planned in countries within the Middle East as part Canon’s strategy of being closer to its customers.

Canon is exploring the changing world of business and information and is drawing inspiration from our customers’ challenges to help improve their business. Canon’s new concept of ‘Explore, Inspire, Improve’ is reflective of these efforts which will provide a business process consultancy and work with its customers to build the best solution for their specific organisation, based on their business priorities.

“Digitisation is becoming an inevitable trend for organisations in the region however to uncover maximum benefits from this trend, businesses need solutions that offer workforce efficiency, stronger cost management, feature more robust data security features, and that function to the highest international sustainability standards. Canon’s solutions holistically address these pain points, and we are happy to demonstrate these capabilities to our Bahraini customers through this event. We are here to provide an end to end solution to consumers and businesses. This integration will further serve us to become closer to our customers and making technology more usable.” said Anurag Agrawal, Managing Director, Canon Middle East.

“With our corporate philosophy of `Kyosei`, meaning ‘living and working together for the common good,’ we will look to maintain our growth and prosperity in the region.” Agrawal further added.

Bahrain has been a witness to the cultural and economic transformation of this region. According to the latest figures published in the Economic Development Board’s Bahrain Economic Quarterly, a growing number of regulatory reforms introduced in Bahrain have contributed to the country’s ability to foster innovation and growth. Bahrain’s non-oil growth has seen an average growth rate of 4.7 percent in 2016 which is a positive sign for the economy.

“As local businesses are turning to big data analytics which is driving IT investments embracing digital transformation to optimise costs, we are committed to strengthening the operational efficiency and productivity of our customers through our innovative suite of services and solutions. Canon Middle East is committed to support the Bahrain`s business community and is aligned with its core agenda of creating a non-oil momentum driven economy,” said Shadi Bakhour, B2B Business Unit Director, Canon Middle East.

At the event attended by more than 100 customers from Bahrain, Canon highlighted its B2B strategy to its channel partners and key customers and showcased an innovative range of products catered to the evolving needs of businesses in verticals such as banking, healthcare, education and government.

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“Jeff is a great leader with a passion for our business and employees, deep customer relationships and a clear strategic vision to capitalize on the opportunities ahead,” said Ursula Burns. “During his four years at Xerox, Jeff has driven significant productivity and cost efficiency efforts while maintaining our commitment to innovation, quality and leading technology. With his previous public-company CEO experience and his track record and achievements at Xerox, the Board and I are confident he is the best person to lead Xerox forward.”

An industry veteran, Jacobson joined Xerox in 2012 as the president of Global Graphic Communications Operations. He became the president of the Xerox Technology business in 2014 with responsibility for worldwide strategy, sales channel operations, marketing, technical services and customer support, product development, manufacturing and distribution. Prior to Xerox, he served as the president, chief executive officer and chairman of Presstek, a supplier of digital offset printing solutions, where he drove a global expansion program.

“I am honored by the board’s decision to appoint me to lead one of the world’s most iconic companies and confident that we will build a bright future for Xerox on the foundation of disciplined management, operational excellence and customer focus that is in place today. As an independent company and with the benefit of the strategic transformation we are aggressively implementing, we will capture the many opportunities available to us to strengthen core businesses and pursue select growth opportunities,” Jacobson said.

“Jeff is clearly the right leader for Xerox’s document technology company,” said Ann Reese, Xerox’s lead independent director. “The board employed a rigorous internal and external search and undertook a thoughtful process to identify the right talent. Jeff has shown he is well-equipped to execute on the work we are doing now and to leverage future opportunities for the benefit of our shareholders, clients, partners and employees.”

On January 29, 2016, Xerox announced its plans to separate into two independent, publicly traded companies – Xerox, which will be comprised of the company’s Document Technology and Document Outsourcing businesses, and Conduent a business process services company. The company is on track to complete the separation by the end of 2016.

Xerox will be a global leader in document management and document outsourcing with superior technology, solutions and innovations. With $11 billion in 2015 revenue, the company will continue to be a trusted partner to its customers, helping them improve productivity, workflow and business performance through our deep understanding of how, why and where people work.

Conduent will be a business process services leader that helps businesses and governments manage transaction intensive processes at a large scale. With approximately $7 billion in 2015 revenue – 90% of which is annuity based – the company is focused on attractive growth markets including transportation, healthcare, commercial and government services.

In his current role, Jacobson leads the company’s technology business, which offers a diverse portfolio of hardware, software and services to customers ranging from small businesses to multinational enterprises. He is responsible for worldwide strategy, sales channel operations, marketing, technical services and customer support, and product development, manufacturing and distribution.

Jacobson joined Xerox in 2012 as the president of Global Graphic Communications Operations where he led strategy, operations and product development of the company’s production systems portfolio for the global graphic communications market. In 2014, as the chief operating officer of the Xerox Technology business, his responsibilities were expanded to include strengthening the technology product and solutions portfolio, managing the cost base and driving supply chain, manufacturing and overall efficiencies.

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