The Modern-Day Digital Explorer

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1 The Modern-Day Digital Explorer 5 Steps to Successfully Navigate to Mobile Productivity Introduction More than 500 years ago, European explorers left the Old World in search of new lands and uncharted territories. Today, IT leaders and their staff work much the same way. Only instead of crossing continents and oceans, they must navigate complex digital, mobile and cloud landscapes to optimize mobile productivity and collaboration. Other monumental obstacles can cause them to change course. There is no one size fits all cloud or mobile productivity solution. Every business comes with different challenges. At the same time, day-to-day issues can t be ignored, making it a wonder IT staffs even have time to build a strategy. A map, the right tools, and savvy experts could be game-changers in successfully achieving their goals.

2 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Microsoft understand these obstacles you face. That is why they ve joined forces to help the modern IT explorer, such as yourself, navigate this journey towards true cloud and mobility productivity. Combining Microsoft s enterprise-grade cloud technologies with HPE s tightly aligned services and solutions, together they define the right goals, deliver powerful tools, and provide expert guidance to get you there quickly. Along the way, they help you navigate past common pitfalls, enabling you to travel safely and seamlessly deliver on your vision. This guide outlines five ways that the initiative between HPE and Microsoft uniquely helps you successfully chart your path to true cloud productivity and mobility: Chart your course Pick the right toolset Hire an expert crew Work as a team Don t stop at the destination 1. Chart your course Maps have played an important role in exploratory travel and navigation since the ancient days of Babylon. For the modern IT explorer, maps help clarify, in technology and business terms, how to make people more productive and IT management easier. Mapping new technologies to business processes, however, often proves difficult. Legacy systems and multi-vendor infrastructures can make the journey towards mobility slow, complex, and expensive. Plus, after deployment, someone has to train everyone. Who has time for that? The end result is often less than desired. Making the map: HPE Advisory Services It s always easier to address infrastructure complexity with a single vendor who has the experience and global resources to architect, deploy, and manage your technology assets. Start your journey with HPE Advisory Services where HPE takes the time to truly understand your business and develop a plan for success. Using collaborative workshops such as Envisioning Sessions, they provide customer-focused experiences and design sessions. HPE can look at your licensing needs, lead strategic planning, do architectural assessment, and hybrid design. Specialists provide business case design to integrate new, legacy, and on-premises pieces and streamline them with the cloud. Their skilled mobility experts can uncover solutions that meet your specific productivity needs. With a clear destination and solid map in hand, you re ready to continue on your productivity journey. Spotlight: HPE end-toend Services HPE offers Advisory, Transformation, and Management services in 135+ countries to help you successfully map a full plan from migration through deployment and management of cloud and mobile technologies. 2

3 2. Pick the right toolset In the days of European explorers, maps meant little without the right ship and the equipment needed to make the journey a success. For the modern IT explorer, that means finding tools that consistently do the job well, work seamlessly together, and offer familiarity for easy adoption by those using them. The Optimal toolset: The Microsoft Enterprise-Grade Cloud Technologies Microsoft s enterprise-grade cloud technologies (Office 365, Skype for Business, Dynamics CRM Online, and Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS)) offer a scalable, unified experience that easily integrates with legacy IT systems and other cloud technologies. Choose proven winners >1B Microsoft Office Users, Microsoft s fastest growing commercial product ever. Office 365, a cornerstone tool and acknowledged leader for your mobile journey, provides a top-of-the-line set of productivity tools to create, edit, and share from almost any device with anyone in near real time with little to no training. Because it s in the cloud, IT can get users up and running almost immediately, reducing migration and individual device update dilemmas. And because Office 365 can come with Skype for Business, you can also add to your toolset and simplify your infrastructure with one unified platform for calling, conferencing, video, and sharing. 93% of Fortune 1000 use Azure Active Directory With EMS, you can easily and securely manage identity and access management in the cloud. EMS integrates mobile device and application management, access and information protection, and hybrid identity into one simple bundle. Take advantage of a forward-looking approach to managing the technologies your people use to optimize their productivity. Enhancing your toolset are third-party and customer-developed apps that work with Office and SharePoint to bring web services right into your documents and sites. Windows 10 enables you to build universal apps that span across all Windows devices, while having one management paradigm and security model, saving costs and reducing IT complexity. Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system has a surprising number of elements that can be incorporated into digital workplace strategies to promote a more cloud-connected, user-centric & selfservice environment. Gartner, 2015 In short, Microsoft cloud and mobility technologies are scalable, integrate with legacy IT systems, readily adapt to change, and facilitate your future growth. With your map laid out and the right tools selected, you are now ready to embark on the journey toward new levels of productivity that your organization has never before seen. 3

4 3. Hire an Expert Crew Whether attempting to discover a new continent, reach the North Pole, or scale Mt. Everest, explorers rarely set out alone. They gather a team of experts who provide the experience and guidance to increase the explorer s chances of success. IT explorers work the same way. Moving towards modern technologies requires experts well-versed in navigating these complex waters. HPE Transformation Services HPE Transformation Services deliver on the technologies and platforms right for your business. HPE has invested deeply in Microsoft technologies, with 48,000 Microsoft-trained professionals worldwide and services that tightly align with each component of the Microsoft Cloud Productivity Suite. Deep industryspecific knowledge and highest-tier partnerships help you navigate specific complexities and right fit a custom solution for your environment. The end result is you ensure you're steering in the right direction. Spotlight: 30-Year Partnership Translates to Better Service HPE has co-location with Microsoft engineers, access to early release software, and support escalation access, ensuring knowledge sharing in real-time, hastening support incident resolution, and helping advance Windows 10 cloud solution development 4

5 4. Work as a team Explorers can t do it alone. To succeed, they need a skilled team that are uses the right tools. Teamwork and a coordinated effort is essential for a successful journey. For the modern IT explorer, that means connecting mobile workers and people in faraway locations. A lost connection is a lost opportunity, impacting your ability to optimize any situation and truly realize that productivity prize. Integrated collaboration tools Office 365 is the most collaborative Office ever. It takes the work out of working together, delivering a deeply secure enterprise-grade solution that connects teams from almost any location. With Skype for Business, your teams can communicate and collaborate from any device without borders or barriers. It supports all kinds of communications, desktop and app sharing, presence, and video calling. And because these features all integrate with Office apps, you can streamline the entire work process. Recognized by Microsoft as a top strategic partner for hosted Skype for Business implementations, HPE offers Skype for Business access and a breadth of tooling, reporting, and monitoring enhancements that provide maximum deployment flexibility and superior support. Skype for Business supports existing unified communications (UC) investments. HPE has deep experience in complex UC integration, so you get the right solution the first time and can maximize your existing investments. In addition to team collaboration, Microsoft can also help you connect with customers. Dynamics CRM Online offers a full range of services focused on delivering business insights that matter to you and your customers. A suite of easy-to-use enterprise business solutions, tailored to you and dedicated to growing your business, enables your people to understand customers, deliver great experiences, and sell more effectively and productively. 5

6 5. Don t stop at the destination Don t let poor maintenance, poor management, and poor adoption negate your investments and progress. Ensure smooth sailing ahead by having expert ongoing management and maintenance and by leveraging cloud technologies that are always up-to-date. This strategy will ensure you are always equipped with the latest tools and are at the ready to capitalize on new opportunities. HPE and Microsoft help you optimize your technology by providing elite management wherever it may go. Such an unparalleled collaboration between technology leaders goes beyond standard consulting services, enabling companies to rapidly translate the potential of mobile technologies into real business value that delivers high levels of productivity, security, innovation, and efficiency. Elite technology and service support With HPE Manage services, you can receive end-to-end support, ongoing management of your platform, and end-to-end service accountability. You also have choice over the location of your apps and data to support local regulations and data privacy requirements. In addition, HPE extends best practices to your people, processes, and organizations to effectively transition to the cloud and optimize their environment. With Microsoft Cloud services such as Office 365 and EMS, your people always have the latest software at their fingertips. The solution itself is built on a managed cloud environment with no need to maintain infrastructure. In - addition, Windows 10 offers a new Windows as a Service model that ensures your people always have the latest technology on their devices, helping to keep everything up-to-date. HPE has the experience to sustain ongoing success #1 rated IT outsourcer 45M mailboxes managed 44M+ service desk contacts per year supported 810,000 mobile devices under management 6

7 Conclusion HPE and Microsoft have joined forces to create exciting new possibilities for modern-day IT explorers. Offering pioneering cloud productivity and mobility solutions that bring together leading Microsoft technologies, including Windows 10, Office 365, and the Enterprise Mobility Suite, with tightly-integrated, end-to-end services and solutions from HPE, these industry giants can help you plan a course for and navigate through the challenges of upgrading your business. As big and as far as you want your business to go HPE and Microsoft can make it happen together. 7