Businesses of any size can
reopen and resume operations while maintaining employee health and
safety with new offerings for social distance tracing and tracking,
touchless entry, fever detection, and more
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced five new
return-to-work solutions that will help organizations accelerate
business recovery and reopening plans in the wake of COVID-19. The
new solutions, which will assist in controlling the spread of the
virus and enabling business continuity, will be implemented and
managed through HPE Pointnext Technology Services for a fast,
seamless transition. These solutions will scale for businesses of
all sizes using secure, high-performing HPE servers for the edge,
Aruba AI-powered network infrastructure, and technologies from
HPE’s rich ecosystem of partners.
HPE has been working closely with customers that have
experienced disruption due to COVID-19 related shutdowns and has
helped keep their businesses running by building or enhancing
remote work capabilities. Examples include implementing improved,
secure connectivity and VDI solutions to support a teleworking
staff. Additionally, to help customers conserve capital and lower
financial risk, HPE offered $2 billion in financing and new
programs through HPE Financial Services. These offerings include
deferred or reduced expenses, short-term rentals, and generating
cash by converting existing, owned IT assets into capital that can
be applied to purchase new, upgraded technology.
The five new return-to-work solutions HPE introduced today will
address the next phase for customers who are anticipating at least
a portion of their employees to safely return to their regular
place of work in company facilities. HPE’s customers that have
already begun implementing these solutions range from large
international airports and global food processing and packaging
plants, to retail stores and corporate offices.
These new solutions include social distance tracing and
tracking, touchless entry, fever detection, augmented reality and
visual remote guidance, and workplace alerts and information
sharing.
“Since the COVID-19 outbreak, our customers have turned to HPE
to help them adapt to unique challenges presented by the pandemic
to maintain business continuity. We have been there for them
throughout these difficult times, on everything from supporting a
transition to a remote workforce with our comprehensive virtual
desktop interface (VDI) solutions, to now helping them return back
to work and to a new normal,” said Saadat Malik, vice president,
IoT and Intelligent Edge Services, at HPE. “As businesses are
reopening and returning employees onsite, our new robust solutions,
featuring a range of HPE technologies and partner capabilities, are
helping them make this transition safely while building on a highly
differentiated, long term workplace digitization strategy.”
INFOGRAPHIC: Achieving business continuity and health
standards with five new return-to-work solutions from HPE
The five new return-to-work solutions will be deployed by HPE
Pointnext Technology Services, which consists of diverse expertise
and support for global scale, and brings together HPE’s extensive
hardware and software capabilities with cutting edge offerings from
a rich ecosystem of partners.
The new solutions will use HPE ProLiant servers, HPE EdgeLine
Converged Edge Systems and Aruba AI-powered network infrastructure
to power and process cameras and video analytics at the edge as
well as enable location services. The solutions also leverage
technologies from partners that provide intelligent surveillance
and thermal cameras, and AI software for video analytics
(Kognition, SAFR™ from RealNetworks, Venzo Secure). The
return-to-work solutions offer customers the following
benefits:
- Social distance tracing and tracking – Helping employers
monitor and implement social distance guidelines. Use cases include
alerting employees through Bluetooth-enabled devices if they are
too close to one another for an extended period of time, or
leveraging video analytics to determine face mask usage in required
areas.
- Touchless entry – Using a hygienic approach for
employees to securely and smoothly enter a location without
touching door handles and other points of entry. The solution uses
facial recognition for contactless access, multi-factor
access-control and identity verification.
- Fever detection – Identifying individuals with elevated
body temperatures using thermal cameras, machine learning and video
analytics to proactively alert employees and staff to keep workers
safe and reduce the risk of spreading the virus.
- Augmented reality & visual remote guidance – Allows
on-site employees to collaborate effectively with remote employees
to take on complex maintenance operations remotely. By offering
digitized 3D visuals of a system or machine, a remote employee can
identify a problem, such as a broken gas or water valve on a
factory floor, to request necessary and timely repairs.
- Workplace alerts & information sharing – Helps
employers share workplace information and push location-specific
alerts to employees, using apps and dashboards. Employees gain
real-time alerts, specific to their exact location in a building,
on any changes or updates occurring onsite as companies transition
to normal activity.
Expediting business recovery for any business of any
size
ISA SpA, a manufacturer and supplier of commercial furnishings
in Italy, has already implemented some of these solutions to
monitor the proximity and duration of interaction between its
workers and alert them with push notifications if they have come
too close in contact with others. Details on the collaboration can
be found here.
Addressing data privacy, security, and compliance
requirements
HPE works closely with customers across the globe to help them
understand the capabilities of the new return-to-work solutions,
including how data is captured, transmitted, analyzed, and stored.
Customers can then determine how they will handle their data based
on relevant legal, regulatory, and company policies that govern
privacy. HPE also offers its customers a rich set of services
focused on helping them assess and mitigate security concerns
related to deployment of IT solutions, including the return-to-work
offerings.
Creating a more intelligent, safer workplace for
customers
The introduction of the new return-to-work as a Service
solutions are an extension to the HPE Intelligent Workplace
offering. The offering helps customers enhance their environments
in four key ways: boost employee productivity, attract and retain
talent, reduce workplace costs, and now, keep employees safe and
healthy to address challenges posed by COVID-19.
These offerings leverage HPE Pointnext Services, including
advisory and professional services offerings to design and deploy
the return-to-work solutions, and HPE GreenLake, an as-a-Service
and pay-per-use subscription feature. HPE has been actively engaged
with customers around the world to assess needs and implement the
right solutions throughout the pandemic, from rapidly adapting to a
remote workforce to transitioning back to work sites.
The HPE Intelligent Workplace offering is part of HPE’s IoT and
Intelligent Edge Services organization, which is comprised of HPE’s
Networking Services, Digital Workplace Services and IoT Services
groups. IDC MarketScape recently named HPE to the “Leaders”
category in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Workspace
Services 2020 Vendor Assessment1 for each of the areas these groups
focus on: Network consulting services, Digital Workspace Services
and Business and Industrial IoT Consulting Services.
The new return-to-work solutions will be available
worldwide.
Additional resources
- HPE Here to Help: Business Continuity Solutions
- Blog: HPE recognized as a global leader in all three areas of
Intelligent Edge Services
Register for free here to HPE Discover Virtual Event
(DVE)
HPE will also showcase these new solutions with the following
demo and deep-dive session at the HPE Discover Virtual Event
(DVE)
- Session ID: B505 - From Crisis Management to Recovery:
Enabling the Workplace of the Future (on demand)
- Demo ID: D249 – Secure Remote and Back-to-Work Solutions
(on demand)
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud
platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate
outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere.
Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to
advance the way we live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and
intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience
across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business
models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance.
For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.
1 IDC recently named HPE to the “Leaders” category in the IDC
MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Workspace Services 2020 Vendor
Assessment (doc #US45407619, March 2020) for each of the areas
these groups focus on: Network consulting services, Digital
Workspace Services and Business and Industrial IoT Consulting
Services.
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