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HP replaces enterprise chief, posts Q3 sales drop
Hewlett-Packard reassigned Enterprise Group chief Dave Donatelli on Wednesday as it reported an 8 percent decline in revenue for its fiscal third quarter, saying all of its major divisions except software brought in less money than a year earlier.
Chief operating officer Bill Veghte will take over the Enterprise Group, which makes the company’s x86 and Itanium servers and its enterprise networking and storage products. Donatelli will take on a new role helping to identify early-stage companies with potentially valuable new technologies, HP said in a press release.
At the same time, the company said it will reassign chief marketing officer Marty Homlish and merge its marketing and communications divisions under Henry Gomez, who is already chief communications officer and will take on the CMO role.
The financial report was gloomy but not unexpected. HP has suffered from declining sales in many of its businesses over the past several quarters.
The pain will continue even longer than HP had expected, according to President and CEO Meg Whitman. Speaking on a conference call about the third-quarter results, she backed away from an earlier forecast of year-over-year revenue growth in fiscal year 2014. Some parts of HP’s business may see such a gain, but the company as a whole is unlikely to turn revenue around that quickly, she said.
Whitman laid some of the blame on poor execution in the enterprise business, which it will be Veghte’s first job to correct. Among other things, the division’s marketing and sales efforts are misaligned with the market, she said.
But in another grim indicator for HP, Whitman said the PC market keeps shrinking.
“The PC market has not stabilized as much as I had anticipated it would,” Whitman said. “That stabilization has yet to occur.”
Despite the lower revenue, HP turned in earnings ahead of its earlier forecast for the quarter. The company earned $0.71 per share, compared with its previously disclosed outlook of 56 cents to 59 cents per share. Not counting one-time items, the company’s profit was 86 cents per share, matching the forecast by analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial. HP’s revenue also met analysts’ expectations.
However, ongoing sales declines continued in the quarter, which ended July 31. The Personal Systems Group suffered the biggest drop, with revenue down 11 percent from a year earlier. Within that division, notebooks were the weakest product category, down 14 percent in terms of units. The business was dragged down most by consumer sales, down 22 percent, while commercial revenue fell only 3 percent.
The Enterprise Group logged 9 percent lower revenue, led downward by Business Critical Systems (BCS), which were down 26 percent. BCS includes servers based on the Itanium processor family.
Printing revenue fell 4 percent, with revenue from supplies going down while hardware unit sales rose. The Enterprise Services and HP Financial Services divisions both posted revenue declines, but the company’s software business logged a revenue gain of 1 percent.
Economic woes across much of the world hurt HP’s ongoing recovery, Whitman said. Europe, the Middle East and Africa remained weak, with HP revenue falling 10 percent, while Asia-Pacific and Japan were mixed, she said. HP’s sales grew in India but fell in China, where the economy appears to be slowing, Whitman said.
However, she said results would be worse without HP’s continued cost-cutting. In the third quarter, another 3,800 employees left the company under an ongoing program to thin the ranks, and HP is on track to cut its workforce by 26,000 as planned by the end of this fiscal year, she said.
“I’m very confident that our turnaround is working,” Whitman said.
The stock market didn’t share her confidence on Wednesday. HP’s shares (NYSE: HPQ) fell 46 cents to $25.38 in regular trading and had plunged another $1.88 in after-hours trading late in the day.
Updated at 4:50 p.m. PT with comments from Meg Whitman.
Monday, 5 August 2013
Facebook embedded posts good for business
Facebook announced a new program this week that lets websites post public Facebook posts to their sites. And that could be a boon for businesses, says industry analysts.
“This could be very attractive to Facebook’s business users,” said Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group. “With this, they might be able to capture positive customer comments and append them to their webpages or other marketing material. Since the post retains the Facebook formatting, I think it conveys a greater sense that the statement is genuine and unsolicited.”
On Wednesday, Facebook announced that it was launching the embedded posts program.
The embedded post will show any pictures or video attached to it, as well as the number of likes, shares, and comments that the post has, according to the social network. Only public posts from Facebook Pages and profiles can be embedded.
“Embedding posts will let people using your website see the same rich information that is shown on Facebook.com, and they will enable people to follow or like content authors or Pages directly from the embed,” the company noted in a blog post.
At this point, the program is only available to what Facebook calls a “handful” of news publishers. A broader rollout is being planned.
This embedded program will help Facebook reach beyond its own site and get even more eyeballs on Facebook content, noted Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy.
But this isn’t just good for Facebook. It’s also good for enterprises that want to show off what users are saying about them on the world’s biggest social network.
“This could improve the Web experience for these sites by enabling real-time content and interactions with their customers,” said Moorhead. “This increases stickiness [on their websites] and increases the chances users won’t bail out.”
Any business, like Ford Motor Company or JetBlue Airways or even a small mom-and-pop shop, eventually will be able to sift through Facebook to find complimentary posts from consumers, and then use the posts on their websites and in their online sales and marketing materials.
As usual though, this could be a double-edge sword.
Olds noted that while one company could be embedding positive posts about itself, its competitor could be embedding negative posts about it on its own site.
However, Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with ZK Research, said there are far more upsides to this for businesses.
“If I’m JetBlue and I had a user rave about a JetBlue flight, I could grab the post and put it on my site,” he said. “It gives the same look and feel of Facebook. It’s familiar to people.” “It’s like having a bunch of mini Facebooks all over the place,” Kerravala said.
Sharon Gaudin covers the Internet and Web 2.0, emerging technologies, and desktop and laptop chips for Computerworld. Follow Sharon on Twitter at @sgaudin, on Google+ or subscribe to Sharon’s RSS feed. Her email address is sgaudin@computerworld.com.
Sharon Gaudin covers the Internet and Web 2.0, emerging technologies, and desktop and laptop chips for Computerworld.
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