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Interview: Erwan Ménard of Hewlett-Packard
08 September 2009
Hewlett-Packard has recruited former Alcatel-Lucent executive Erwan Ménard to run its unified product and consulting division, CMS, directed at the telecommunications and media industries worldwide
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Erwan Ménard: the industry requires a new type of vendor
It’s a solutions powerhouse for customers, said Hewlett-Packard when it launched a new division for telecoms and media in February 2009 and put a former Alcatel-Lucent executive, Erwan Ménard, in charge.
CMS stands for communications and media solutions, and is very similar to the old name under which HP faced the telecoms world: that was communications, media and entertainment.
But there’s more than just a name change. The old brand was a sort of overlay of a number of divisions of the group, each of which worked more or less separately, while Ménard is in charge of operating a full business unit with profit-and-loss responsibility.
There are many familiar faces within CMS; which includes the old CME as well as HP’s OpenCall software business unit, and the global consulting and integration practices as far as they operate in...
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