HP Inc. this week accepted the “2018-19 PaceSetter Award for Retail” from Keypoint Intelligence - Buyers Lab (BLI). The award recognizes HP Inc.’s offering of the most impressive portfolios of hardware devices, software solutions, and technical and professional services for customers in the retail category. HP is the only OEM awarded in this vertical market.
“Several of the participating OEMs had strong showings in our study when it came to offerings for retail customers,” said Jamie Bsales, Director of Office Workflow Solutions Analysis for Keypoint Intelligence. “HP edged out the others thanks to a hardware portfolio that extends beyond document imaging to include other relevant offerings, including PCs, point-of-sale systems, digital signage and more.”
Analysts at Keypoint Intelligence identified HP’s leadership in the retail vertical market through its comprehensive portfolio spanning personal systems and print. BLI specifically notes HP’s:
Complete range of retail hardware including wide format signage printers, point-of-sale systems, digital signage, tablets, barcode scanners and receipt printers
Class-leading A4 printing portfolio that can be tailored to solve retail problems without sacrificing security
Retail-specific solutions, support and services, including HP Workflow Discovery for Retail, Retail Behavior Analytics Services, and the HP retail industry team
BLI additionally recognizes HP’s ongoing investment to understand the changes in consumerism and ability to implement thoughtful innovative technology.
Continuing Momentum
This award follows a series of top-tier recognition for HP Inc.’s innovation, leadership and collaboration across its personal systems and print businesses.
Last month, HP was named a leader in the IDC MarketScape Contractual Print and Document Services Vendor Assessment and the HP multifunction printer was named a 2018 “Product of the Year” by CRN. This fall, HP won a TSIA STAR award for innovation with Device as a Service and “swept” the print innovation category at CRN’s 2018 Annual Report Card Awards. And in July, BLI named HP the “Most Reliable Business Printer & MFP Brand, 2018-21.”
About Keypoint Intelligence – Buyers Lab
Keypoint Intelligence is a one-step shop for the digital imaging industry. With our unparalleled tools and unmatched depth of knowledge, we cut through the noise of data to offer clients the unbiased insights and responsive tools they need in those mission-critical moments that define their products and empower their sales.
For more than 50 years, Buyers Lab has been the global document imaging industry’s resource for unbiased and reliable information, test data, and competitive selling tools. What started out as a consumer-based publication about office equipment has become an all-encompassing industry resource. In a landscape that’s ever evolving, we change with it.
Every business process, every customer interaction, every manufacturing step, and every manufactured artifact, digital or physical, throws off data. That is not new. What is, is the volume of data which has the potential to be acquired and analyzed to yield actionable insights. From enterprise network access logs to tiny MEMS sensors to 4K video streamers in drones, data is being sensed in ways and in places like never before. The amount of data we record as a species is growing exponentially, but the vast majority of those bytes are not fulfilling their potential. Whether explicitly lost in an edge device log trim, or implicitly stripped of value when dumped without context in a data lake, businesses are throwing away the chance to gain something from that data, forfeiting the chance to gain insight from it. From every edge to any cloud, HPE is already helping customers combat this issue, providing the technology and insight necessary to waste not want not.
How does your enterprise think about data?
How does your enterprise view data; as a cost to be contained, as a source of insight to increase revenue and profit, or as potential source of revenue in its own right? Data is one of the most valuable resources your company can have. Data gives insight which drives action. Action which drives progress, profit, and improved performance. Data analysis can show strengths and weaknesses, it can help you develop your ever-evolving strategy. With AI tools like unsupervised machine learning and anomaly detection, data analysis can provide insights in places you never thought to look.
Enterprises must understand that every process, every contact, in every place, creates data. Advancements at the edge mean everything is -or will be- something that throws off data. This endless source of data can’t be viewed as something that will take up valuable time to process: it cannot be ignored, it should not be given away, if you don’t act on it, you’ll get left behind. Whether it is you, your fiercest competitor, or a new entrant coming up from nowhere, as soon as someone in your segment leans into the full opportunity, you will either be a hyper-competitive, real-time analytic driven business or you will be desperately wondering how to compete with one. It will be a sea change comparable to when we shifted to just-in-time manufacturing. You need to know what is happening in your organization right now: real time is the new just-in-time. So why then are companies still wasting data? Why are some businesses discarding data, or even giving it away to someone else? Data is a raw commodity and as such it needs to be refined or processed. Think of it like a food source- for it to be useful, it must be processed prior to consumption. Also like a food source, this must be done in a timely manner because it can also be perishable. The question is, how do we extract the most value at the best cost? Considering both numerator and denominator in the return on investment of gaining insight from data; how much does it cost to refine the data and how much is the refined data worth? In essence, is the data processing economically viable?
How Much Data is Currently Being Created and Where?
Every other year, we create as much new data as has ever been in the history of mankind, that’s the exponential data growth curve; every two years it has doubled. This is not something which is going to level out soon: data sensors are not slowing down in terms of cost reduction or proliferation. The more we move to digital and virtual manufacturing and business processes, the more we can instrument our economies. What is changing is that the data is growing disproportionately at the edge. In as few as five years, the vast majority of enterprise information may never see anything we’d call a data center, the term itself will become an oxymoron.
As an example of the scale of potential growth, consider that the billion plus users of Facebook contribute 4 petabytes of data a day to the platform, data that is of extremely high value both because it is human generated and because it can be correlated with over a decade of accumulated insight. We are still wrestling with the potential impact of this type of potential. Now consider the sensor fusion platform of a connected vehicle: LIDAR, ultrasonic sensing, front and rear HD cameras, GPS, power train sensors and user actions. At hundreds of Megabytes per second, it takes only 1000 vehicles to match the data generating capability of a billion people. Today, almost all of that data is only used for safely moving the passengers from A to B and then it’s discarded. What if that data was not wasted, but could be correlated and analyzed in place? The sea of information which is currently being thrown aside could give insights into vehicle efficiency, environmental conservation, traffic control, city planning; connected vehicles could be the fluid intelligence of tomorrow’s smart cities. What business process and technical innovations are required to realize the potential of every single byte?
Data Analysis Road Blocks
So what is stopping everyone from driving towards big data based insights? What keeps us from admitting all that data to analysis for societal and enterprise benefit? Physics and Law. The reality of the post-Dennard scaling, Moore’s Law twilight world drives us to seek the economies of hyperscale cloud data centers. Moving information, for example from the edge to the cloud, comes at both a capital cost for infrastructure, bandwidth, backbones, and networks and also the operational costs of energy. Even if we ignore those costs, then we’re left with the speed of light. Latencies may seem insignificant measured at 5 nanoseconds per meter in photonic fibers, but they become material at the data center level for real time enterprise analytics, let alone metropolitan or continental crossings. Then there’s the law governing data protection, a complex issue exacerbated by the patchwork of laws and behaviors around the world and across borders and cultures. How is it possible to transport vast amounts of data from its source, then deliver analysis based on it to sites around the world? The physical requirements of such transfers coupled with the governance of such procedures are an obstacle to the data utilization which could be of such benefit to businesses and also society.
Every Byte, Everywhere
Before you throw away or give away another byte, let’s have that conversation. Your data could be the most important asset, but you might still be thinking of it as a liability because conventional computing is not capable of extracting its value. When we announced our intentions to define a new computer architecture publicly back in June 2014, our prototypes were a rough sketch on my whiteboard in Palo Alto. Along-side those sketches was that exponential data growth curve, a curve which demands new approaches, new physics, new models of security, trust, and control but in return will unlock the enduring value of data. Since then we've realized those sketches as working prototypes and engaged in hundreds of conversations across the globe about the potential, now its time to shift to implementation. Intelligent, distributed systems which span every edge and any cloud are more complex than centralized systems, but they are more sustainable, more available, more secure, and more equitable, which in turn makes them not just vastly more competitive but arguably more just. Compute for a world thirsty for wisdom.
NA Managing Director Dan Belanger shares his perspective on HPE’s commitment to our veterans community
There are many occasions to feel proud and grateful to work in my position, like when I watched Antonio Neri talk on stage during the Discover Madrid general session about the edge-centric, cloud-enabled, data-driven enterprise of the future and how our customers and partners are using our technology to make the world a better, cleaner, safer place. Or when HPE was awarded two CRN 2018 Tech Innovator awards for SimpliVity 2600 and HPE Nimble Storage Flash. However, that sense of pride and purpose really comes home when I think about the work HPE does with its Veterans Program.
HPE’s commitment to our veterans community brings me more pride than just about any other part of our culture. I see parallels between my leadership style and military characteristics, where organization, teamwork, and taking responsibility are all important. Every time I contribute to veterans projects, I’m personally struck by the sacrifice made, not only by people in the military, but also by their families, and I’m filled with gratitude. We could never fully repay for the sacrifices made in their service, but I am so incredibly proud of the breadth of the initiatives driven by HPE for Veterans and military families to give back - even just a fraction.
HPE’S VETERANS PROGRAM CREATES MEANINGFUL BENEFITS FOR MILITARY VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES
Behind every business – and military – campaign there is a mission. The mission of HPE’s Veterans Program is to “create sustainable and meaningful benefits for military veterans and family members.” Started in 2012, the program focuses on dedicated talent matching, the veteran mentoring program, the Veteran Employee Resource Network (VERN), and VetAdvisor Services for veterans and their families. It’s brought HPE many notable honors since inception, and we were recently awarded Military Friendly® Company Designation for 2019 – the standard that measures an organization’s commitment, effort and success in creating sustainable and meaningful benefit for the military community. This is a huge testament to HPE's commitment to veterans and their families, and I couldn’t be prouder.
Our dedicated recruiters help veterans make the transition to a civilian career. The talent brought to the company through this process aligns with so much of what we do; specialist military training, plus the dedication, discipline, organization, teamwork, and accountability that’s vital to service men and women aligns with our business principles here at HPE.
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With HPE OneSphere, Magellan can on-board private cloud resources and provide a cloud-like experience to its users
The rapid growth of e-sports and online platforms is changing the gambling landscape across the globe. The market is developing so rapidly that bookmakers need to be able to offer the latest products or risk losing customers to their competition. Magellan Robotech, one of Europe’s leading developers of customized gaming platforms and services, must be able to get new products to market quickly to stay ahead in a very competitive landscape.
Magellan Robotech was founded in 2014 by the Stanleybet Group, an international bookmaker with over 60 years of experience in the Gaming business, with the aim of exploring new frontiers in gaming and entertainment. They are well known for developing innovative V-Sports, V-Games, casino products and online retail platforms, with end-users experiencing highly sophisticated digital video streams of games and virtual sports. They have a team of more than 150 professionals dedicated to creating bespoke products and services, customized for the needs of every single client.
The problem: How to respond fast enough to market demand for new applications and services?
The gambling industry is hugely competitive and Magellan Robotech’s customers are reliant on the company to provide them with the latest innovative gaming products that constantly push the boundaries for virtual gaming. To bring new products to market increasingly faster, Magellan Robotech must be able to provision resources quickly when opportunities arise to develop new gaming services and applications for the market.
Previously Magellan Robotech’s test and development systems were housed in legacy data center infrastructure, but they faced constant bottlenecks due to challenges with scalability and agility. They needed to move from legacy waterfall methodologies into a DevOps environment. According to Graham Banner, Head of IT Operations at Magellan Robotech, “We wanted to enable the developers to be able to iterative test, quickly deploy applications, and tear them down and bring them back up again, without a roadblock from the infrastructure team who had a ticket system. This meant developers could wait five days to get hold of services."
The solution: streamline access to multi-cloud resources
The solution was the HPE OneSphere, an as-a-service hybrid cloud management platform. Through a unified view in HPE OneSphere the team at Magellan Robotech can build hybrid clouds capable of supporting both traditional, virtualized, and cloud-native applications, while providing company executives the cost insights they need to make informed business decisions on their cloud utilization. HPE OneSphere equips Magellan’s developers with application provisioning as-a-service, so that they can focus on creating the industry’s leading virtual gaming software.
Getting HPE OneSphere up and running is rapid due to its as-a-Service delivery model. “Within minutes of deploying HPE OneSphere it had automatically discovered our cloud estate. It provided us insights straight away into our environment. We could see how much resources were being consumed, which teams were running them, and how much capacity they needed”, says Banner.
It has been a hugely empowering tool for Magellan Robotech’s IT team. According to Banner, “HPE OneSphere supports our legacy application stack, the current application stack and our future application stack and it’s a bridge between all these environments across our estate.”
With HPE OneSphere, companies can on-board on-premises private cloud resources and provide a cloud-like experience to their users. HPE OneSphere makes it easy for customers like Magellan Robotech to on-board Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure clouds into the HPE OneSphere portal. Then they can choose whether to deploy workloads into either on-prem or public cloud resources via a range of simplified work flows.
For the FIA ABB Formula E Seasons 5-7, VENTURI Formula E Team will benefit from Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s expertise, transformational technologies, infrastructure and innovation, supporting critical team performance functions both on and off the track. Once implemented, the technology will further aid efficient team workflow and assist with flawless race execution.
Proven experience and commitment
HPE has a wealth of experience with the technical demands in motorsports including Formula 1, Formula E, Indycar and NASCAR, and success in implementing ground-breaking edge to cloud solutions
What they say:
“I’m delighted to welcome Hewlett Packard Enterprise on board. There is no doubt that this partnership will allow VENTURI Formula E Team to grow. Due to their great expertise, I’m convinced that HPE will fast-track the development of the team and enhance the corporate structure. Given that Formula E is a very dynamic and fast-paced environment, I know that HPE will enjoy this unique and hopefully rewarding journey we are embarking on together." – Gildo PASTOR, President of VENTURI Formula E Team.
“Races are won and lost on strategy which is why we are not only building the best possible team but we want the best possible technology and engineering partners as part of our journey. I’ve personally seen the HPE motorsport partnership in action, I know the real tangible technical benefits they can bring to a team and I am delighted that we have them on board as our Official Technology Partner. I also think that the scale of their commitment doesn’t just reinforce their belief in our team but also their appreciation for Formula E as a sport. HPE has also had the foresight to recognise that Formula E is a highly competitive environment for sustainable automotive and technological innovation and they want to be part of that momentum.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a global technology leader focused on developing intelligent solutions that allow customers to capture, analyze and act upon data seamlessly from edge to cloud. HPE enables customers to accelerate business outcomes by driving new business models, creating new customer and employee experiences, and increasing operational efficiency today and into the future.
HP Inc. announced new hardware and solutions to help change the way architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries design and print. Autodesk users will now experience faster HP PageWide XL printers1, breakthrough simplicity with HP Solutions for Large Format printers, new Z by HP portfolio enhancements, and advances in VR.
The new technology makes its debut in the HP showcase (#A451) of new printing hardware and solutions designed to be intuitive and efficient for Autodesk users. Experience the new HP Solutions for Large Format Printing, HP PageWide XL printing technology, the latest HP DesignJet Z9+ PostScript® Printer Series printing Z by HP posters, the HP DesignJet T830 24-in Multifunction Printer, HP new powerful HP ZBook mobiles, and VR “snacking” tool.
Reinvents technical print production with faster entry-level PageWide XL solutions
Now 25 percent faster at the same price1, the upgraded HP PageWide XL 4000 series is the most cost-effective solution in the PageWide XL portfolio for enterprise, public sector users, including architects and engineers, to achieve fast, and easy printing with a consolidated printing workflow.
The HP PageWide XL 4600 Printer and MFP and HP PageWide XL 4100 Printer and MFP join the fastest printer portfolio in the market2 offering speeds up to 15D/A1-size or 10D/A1-size prints per minute, for technical work teams of architects and engineers and copy shops to deliver technical documents with quick turnaround and low operating costs.3
With more than 7,000 units shipped and 5 billion ft² (500 million m2) printed since the HP PageWide XL printer launch in 2015, more customers are discovering the value the market-leading4 HP PageWide XL printers bring to businesses worldwide. HP PageWide XL printers do the job of two printers in a single device, providing both monochrome and color prints at breakthrough speeds: the Power of One.
Frictionless large format printing experience
Eight-five percent of design creators need help when printing in large format5. HP is focused on delivering seamless print experiences with new solutions to enable creativity, productivity, and smarter ways to bridge the physical print with the digital world. Designed to simplify how AEC businesses print, users have access to one click solutions and can virtually print anytime and anywhere from all devices.
Simple and easy print solutions include:
· HP Click: This one-click desktop printing software gives customers the confidence to print right the first time. HP Click now enhances the users batch printing experience with just one click by optimizing media usage and costs while achieving error free printing.
· HP Smart App: A mobile app designed to print, scan, and share content now enables users to print content from the cloud from virtually anywhere with transparency and control.
· HP Poster App: An easy online design tool to create and print professional looking posters with the largest collection of free and premium content. Now users have access with a direct and easy printing with HP Click.
"In a world with a 100 percent digital construction vision, paper is still the most common tool used in the field. Small businesses in the AEC industry require the right tools to bridge physical prints with dynamic digital solutions, like CAD software,” said Guayente Sanmartín, General Manager and Global Head, HP Large Format Design Printing. “HP’s vision is to merge the best of the physical and digital worlds to have everybody on the same page.”
HP is collaborating with customers around the world on delivering a pilot program focused on using augmented reality technologies to help reduce errors caused by outdated plans.
“The HP Augmented Print solution has enormous potential. It bridges the gap between digital and paper. We are excited to work with HP to improve our customers’ construction projects,” said Roberto Molinos, CEO and founder, Modelical.
At Autodesk University, HP will also showcase powerful HP ZBook mobiles and a VR “snacking” tool.
Changing the Way, the World Designs
The new Z by HP portfolio including HP ZBook mobile workstations, HP Z desktops like the mighty HP Z2 Mini or the powerful HP Z8, and the award-winning HP DreamColor displays, deliver the powerful productivity, versatility and security today’s power users need to do their best work.
The HP ZBook Studio, HP ZBook Studio x360, HP ZBook 15 and HP ZBook 17 have been enhanced with greater processing power, innovative security features and bright displays. The performance increase, with six-core Intel® Core™ i9 processors, will enable users to tackle heavier workloads, such as video editing and 3D rendering. The expanded memory option up to 32 GB of memory (expandable up to 128 GB depending on model) allows users to work faster with large amounts of data. New security feature RAID 1 gives users mirrored SSD storage, providing peace of mind by always providing back up for valuable data.
It’s an “everything as a service” world, and we’re all living in it.
As we move from the information age to the experience age, there has been a major shift in the way we work and play. Consumers want products and services that automatically renew themselves and are more convenient to consume, and it’s no different in the working world.
More than 40 percent of small and medium-sized companies consider “as a service” critical to their organization1. Our goal for HP Device as a Service (DaaS)2
is to deliver that same type of user experience for computing. By combining hardware, intelligence, and lifecycle services, we simplify how IT organizations allocate and manage their devices while improving reliability and satisfaction. There is also the bonus of freeing up IT resources to focus on other priorities, not to mention greater financial predictability.
Additionally, 70 percent of companies are planning for or considering investing in effective analytics tools and skills3. HP TechPulse is a cornerstone of HP DaaS and enables HP Service Experts4 to deliver superb management. This unique analytics technology monitors and predicts device health to help customers proactively manage multi-OS device environments and mitigate issues before they impact productivity.
Today, HP announced new enhancements for its partners and customers.
Enabling our partner ecosystem to plug and play
HP’s commitment to its partners is stronger than ever. The new enhancements in HP DaaS enable HP partners to accelerate their ability to easily offer the benefits of the “as a service” model to customers. This includes:
· Multi-customer view for partners – This new capability allows partners to view incidents and reports for multiple customers from a single dashboard and logon, provide data-driven recommendations for optimization to their customers, and spot trends in their installed customer bases to structure more efficient responses to incidents. With this new dashboard view, partners can easily change from viewing key indicators for all customers to individual customers with a click of a button.
· Business review templates – A new tool that helps partners more quickly and easily hold rich business reviews with their customers and to identify areas for optimization.
· Added incidents to all HP DaaS plans – Incidents are alerts that flag issues that need to be addressed and they show up on the analytics dashboard of the HP DaaS portal; channel partners can now report on them to their customers.
· New integration service – Incidents generated by HP TechPulse can interact with ServiceNow5, a leading IT services management system. With this add-on service, partners can use their helpdesk ticketing system to track and resolve incidents from HP TechPulse along with other IT issues they are tracking with ServiceNow before they affect users.
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