HP Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) is putting its own experience of separating from HP Inc. to establish a new services business that aims to assist its customers and partners planning their own splits or acquisitions.
Speaking at HP Discover in London, CEO Meg Whitman said the split saw HPE undertake to build out five times more infrastructure over a six week period than it would typically build over several years. The experience, she said, has lead the vendor to become an expert in business transformation.
“Through this complex process of separating Hewlett Packard we got really good at this sort of work at a scale that most companies wouldn’t even attempt,” she said.
Announcing the new advisory business, she explained: “We’ve decided to create a new service practice where we we’re using everything we learned in separating Hewlett Packard and putting that knowledge to work for you. So if your company is thinking about a merger or an acquisition or a divestiture, you should call us to help you with this IT separation as I’m convinced no-one has done this at this kind of scale, in this kind of timeframe.”
Whitman described the month since its HPE’s official separation from HP Inc. as “a whirlwind.”
She thanked customers and told them the new enterprise-focused firm was “stronger, more agile, innovative and better positioned to transform your business.”
She added: “Business and IT are moving faster than ever what we thought was fast a year or two ago doesn’t even qualify for the race today. Success favours companies that can invent and reinvent at warp speeds – companies where IT and the business are inseparable,” she said, adding “To help you get faster, we had to get faster ourselves.”
No further information about the new practice was available at the time of publication.
