Consolidated and Combined Statements of Earnings - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions			12 Months Ended
		Nov. 01, 2015	Oct. 31, 2016	Oct. 31, 2015	Oct. 31, 2014
Net revenue:
Products			$ 19,250	$ 19,635	$ 19,171
Services			30,509	32,111	35,551
Financing income			364	361	401
Total net revenue			50,123	52,107	55,123
Costs and expenses:
Cost of products			12,715	12,978	12,394
Cost of services			22,543	23,950	26,815
Financing interest			249	240	277
Research and development			2,298	2,338	2,197
Selling, general and administrative			7,821	8,025	8,717
Amortization of intangible assets			755	852	906
Restructuring charges			1,236	954	1,471
Acquisition and other related charges			178	89	11
Separation costs			598	797	0
Defined benefit plan settlement charges			0	225	0
Impairment of data center assets			0	136	0
Gain on H3C and MphasiS divestitures			(2,420)	0	0
Total costs and expenses			45,973	50,584	52,788
Earnings from operations			4,150	1,523	2,335
Interest and other, net			(312)	(51)	(91)
Tax indemnification adjustments			317	0	0
Loss from equity interests			(76)	(2)	0
Earnings before taxes			4,079	1,470	2,244
(Provision) benefit for taxes			(918)	991	(596)
Net earnings			$ 3,161	$ 2,461	$ 1,648
Net earnings per share:
Basic (in dollars per share)	[1]		$ 1.84	$ 1.36	$ 0.91
Diluted (in dollars per share)	[1]		1.82	1.34	0.90
Cash dividends declared per share (in dollars per share)			$ 0.22	$ 0.00	$ 0.00
Weighted-average shares used to compute net earnings per share:
Basic (in shares)	[1]		1,715	1,804	1,804
Diluted (in shares)	[1]		1,739	1,834	1,834
Former Parent Company
Distributed (in shares)		1,800

[1] On November 1, 2015, HP Inc. (formerly Hewlett-Packard Company) distributed a total of 1.8 billion shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise common stock to HP Inc. stockholders as of the record date. The number of shares used to compute basic and diluted net earnings per share ("EPS") for the period ended October 31, 2015 is used for the calculation of net EPS for October 31, 2014. See Note 16, "Net Earnings Per Share", for further details.