Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ)

Hewlett-Packard Co. provides products, technologies, software, solutions and services to individual consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors. It operates through seven business segments: Personal Systems, Printing, Services, Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking, Software, HP Financial Services and Corporate Investments. The Personal Systems segment provides commercial personal computers (PCs), consumer PCs, workstations, calculators and other related accessories, software and services for the commercial and consumer markets. The Printing segment provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, supplies, media and scanning devices. Printing is also focused on imaging solutions in the commercial markets. The Services segment provides consulting, outsourcing and technology services across infrastructure, applications and business process domains. This segment is divided into three business units: Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing, Technology Services and Application & Business Services. The Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing unit services encompass the data center, IT security, cloud-based computing, workplace technology, network, unified communications and enterprise service management. The Technology Services unit provides technology consulting and support services for transforming IT and converging and supporting IT infrastructure. Its technology consulting portfolio includes strategic IT advisory services, cloud consulting services, unified communications solutions, data center transformation services and education consulting services. The Application & Business Services unit helps clients develop, revitalize and manage their applications and information assets. Its portfolio includes intellectual property-based industry solutions, and also services for customer relationship management, finance and administration, human resources, payroll and document processing. The Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking segment provides server, storage and networking products. The Software segment provides enterprise information management solutions for both structured and unstructured data, IT management software, and security intelligence/risk management solutions. The HP Financial Services segment provides a broad range of value-added financial life cycle management services. This segment offers leasing, financing, utility programs and asset recovery services, as well as financial asset management services. The Corporate Investments segment includes business intelligence solutions, HP Labs, the webOS business and certain business incubation projects. Its business intelligence solutions enable businesses to standardize on consistent data management schemes, connect and share data across the enterprise and apply analytics. Hewlett-Packard was founded by William R. Hewlett and David Packard in 1939 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.