HP refreshes tablet lineup, publishes new enterprise mobility research

HP has announced seven new tablets and an ultrabook/tablet hybrid, and as well released new research on European IT decision-makers' current and planned enterprise mobility strategies. We recently involved with Michael Park, vice president & general manager of HP's Commercial Mobility & Software business unit, to find the particularly the products and hear HP's current thinking on enterprise mobility.

Front and centre is HP's determination to add software and services on the basic device offering. "Whenever we talk of mobility in the enterprise, when you simply do these devices, it is not enough: it is the apps and also the device for your user, but in addition connectivity -- the best way to deliver the apps out of the data center -- along with the scale of the amount of devices per user," says Park.

"There's a lot of complexity in implementing commercial mobility," adds Park, "and then we should consider how the many pieces add up, which needs a different type of planning on the way we design these products and the corresponding services."

One particular services is HP Touchpoint Manager, a cloud-based MDM (mobile device management) solution aimed at SMEs, which has been announced in December 2014. Offering a browser-based 'single window glass' view of device inventory and health, remote lock and wipe, automatic application of security and policy settings, proactive alerts thereto admins, plus password and PIN resets, Touchpoint Manager currently supports iOS, Android and Windows devices, with Mac OS support on the way, in accordance with Park. The service is vendor-agnostic, but HP devices offer extra clues about hardware health, warranty information and (for many models) out-of-band find, lock and wipe.

Higher up the foodstuff chain, HP offers integration into existing EMM (enterprise mobility management) solutions as opposed to adding an enterprise version of Touchpoint Manager with an already crowded marketplace. Application migration and app development services are also typical of HP's enterprise mobility offering.

Summing up the CIO's BYOD dilemma, Michael Park says: "You can not just bring a consumer device into an enterprise and say 'we're done': that is about app transformation, optimising the workflow, the way you cope with policies etc."

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