HP’s president interview
Interview of HP’s president, Tuan Tran, published in CRN (Computer Reseller News) magazine
- “printing is essential for working and learning from home”
- “office will be a place for collaboration and it will be combined with work-from-home”
- “instead of selling just A3s that are centralized, big machines on the floor, we are going to start packaging solutions up for you (dealers) to deliver small devices that have security and manageability built in”
- “We have had the good fortune of having a very large consumer home focused printing business, with a lot of analytics
- “We actually say a usage spike as well as a large amount of new printers being installed”
- “For us, we see a world where there will be many more devices – both inside your network as well as at home and outside your network”
- Now offering Flexworker service, which “can be added to accompany existing MPS contracts, to help remote workers maintain their productivity”
- “business volumes, in terms of total pages, are down”
- “I expect late 2021 or early 2022 to be a time when we can all get back together and have a face to face”
- “We went from 5 million Instant Ink subscribers to 9 million subscribers”