HP Announces Vertical Indexes for Performance Measuring

HP (www.hp.com) today announced vertical industry indexes for measuring the agility of critical business processes and IT infrastructure to help companies worldwide assess and ultimately improve business performance.

Due to the diversity of business sectors from which the data was gathered, companies also can compare the agility of their critical business processes and IT organization against others in their industry.

The vertical industry indexes are part of HP's Agility Assessment Service - the industry's only IT service based squarely on the concept of agility - and help enterprises establish prioritized, real baselines to measure and assess the synchronization of business and IT.

"HP's Agility Assessment Service is an important first step to helping companies take advantage of emerging dynamic computing products and infrastructures," said John Madden, analyst, Summit Strategies.

After completing an HP Agility Assessment, customers will be able to measure their business agility against the agility index in their industry and will receive a diagnosis on how their business is performing ahead of competitors and where performance is lagging.

Global manufacturer, Steelcase, a leading maker of equipment for office environments, was quickly growing through acquisition and was looking for a way to respond to changing business conditions.

China Life Insurance Company Limited enjoys great advantages from its large size; no rival is likely to immediately threaten its leadership.

The global agility research was done in collaboration with INSEAD, the No. 1 ranked international business school, based in Fontainebleau, France. To develop the vertical industry indexes, scores of business and IT executives were interviewed over the past year to identify potential business process barriers to agility.

HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing.