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HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
Note 18: Segment Information (Continued)
reported as part of the Other business unit within the Personal Systems segment, and the financial
results of the portion of the business intelligence services business that had continued to be reported as
part of the Corporate Investments segment following the implementation of prior realignment actions
are now reported as part of the ABS business unit. In addition, the end-user workplace support
business, which, as noted above, was previously a part of the TS business unit and is now a part of the
ES segment, is reported as part of the ITO business unit within that segment.
A description of the types of products and services provided by each business segment follows.
The Printing and Personal Systems Group’s mission is to leverage the respective strengths of the
Personal Systems business and the Printing business by creating a unified business that is customer-
focused and poised to capitalize on rapidly shifting industry trends. Each of the business segments
within PPS is described in detail below.
Personal Systems provides commercial personal computers (‘‘PCs’’), consumer PCs, workstations,
thin clients, tablets, retail point-of-sale (‘‘POS’’) systems, calculators and other related accessories,
software, support and services for the commercial and consumer markets. HP groups commercial
notebooks, commercial desktops, commercial tablets and workstations into commercial clients and
consumer notebooks, consumer desktops and consumer tablets into consumer clients when describing
its performance in these markets. Described below are HP’s global business capabilities within Personal
Systems.
•Commercial PCs are optimized for use by commercial customers, including enterprise and SMB
customers, and for connectivity, reliability and manageability in networked environments.
Commercial PCs include the HP ProBook and HP EliteBook lines of notebooks; the HP Pro
and HP Elite lines of business desktops and all-in-ones, retail POS systems, HP Thin Clients and
HP ElitePad Tablet PCs. Commercial PCs also include Workstations that are designed and
optimized to reliably operate in high performance and demanding application environments
including Z desktop workstations, Z all-in-ones and Z mobile workstations.
•Consumer PCs include the HP Spectre, HP ENVY, HP Pavilion, HP Chromebooks and HP Split
series of multi-media consumer notebooks, consumer tablets, hybrids (detachable tablets),
desktops, including the TouchSmart line of touch-enabled notebooks and all-in-one desktops.
Consumer PCs also use the Compaq and Slate sub-brands for certain product offerings.
Printing provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, supplies, media, software and
services, as well as scanning devices. Printing is also focused on imaging solutions in the commercial
markets. HP groups LaserJet, large format and Indigo printers into commercial hardware and inkjet
printers into consumer hardware when describing our performance in these markets. Described below
are HP’s global business capabilities within Printing.
•Inkjet and Printing Solutions delivers HP’s consumer and SMB inkjet solutions (hardware,
supplies, media, and web-connected hardware and services). It includes single-function and
all-in-one inkjet printers. Ongoing initiatives and programs such as Ink in the office and Ink
Advantage and new initiatives such as Instant Ink are meant to provide innovative printing
solutions to consumers and SMBs and include HP’s Officejet Premium and Officejet Pro inkjet
product portfolios.
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