KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 25, 2009 – HP today announced zero percent lease financing for qualifying customers1 of its Business Technology Optimization (BTO) and Information Management (IM) software.

HP announced the new zero percent lease financing option, which helps customers gain the benefits of HP’s market-leading solutions without the up-front capital expenditure traditionally associated with software procurement.

“As the cost of capital continues to rise under challenging economic conditions, organizations will face procurement challenges as they review expenditures with tightening scrutiny,” said Joe Pucciarelli, program director, Technology Financing and Executive Strategies, IDC. “CIOs who seek alternate funding models to enable long-term innovation while controlling costs, conserving capital and managing risk will put their firms in a much better position to emerge from this tough economic cycle than their competition.”

Zero percent lease financing is available for:

• HP BTO solutions help CIOs enhance the value and optimize the business outcomes of IT investments with products spanning project and portfolio management, application security, performance validation, quality management, business service management, business service automation and IT service management.
• HP Information Management (IM) solutions, enables customers to manage and utilize the terabytes of structured and unstructured information. This helps meet regulatory compliance requirements and create competitive advantage. HP IM solutions include business intelligence, business continuity and availability, enterprise document automation, governance and e-discovery to help provide cost-effective approaches for managing, protecting and extracting value from information assets.