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How two companies merged into one great enterprise

Overview How do two newly merged companies with 160,000 employees in 160 countries – who were spending 4.6% of revenue on IT – effectively merge and streamline their information technology environments and systems while mitigating risk and reducing costs? With the goal of being the world’s #1 business and consumer technology solutions partner, HP and Compaq officially joined hands in early May 2002 and the massive consolidation journey began.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Hewlett-Packard	File Format	WORD
Date Published	January 2005	Downloads	746
Format	White Papers
Topics	Service Level Management, Server Consolidation, Strategic Planning, Infrastructure Management

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