Meet the Demands of a Modern Workforce with Intel vPro®
The workplace of today is drastically different than it was even two years ago. Hybrid work is now the norm, with many employers offering it as a strategic workforce policy and 79 percent of organizations reporting they will have a mix of workers at home and in the office.3
This shift has not only transformed how employees work, creating more demands on productivity, multitasking, and collaboration, but also how IT enables employees to work efficiently, productively, and securely from any location.
Effectively supporting these changes requires purpose-built, professional-grade computing technology. That’s where the Intel vPro platform can help.
What Is Intel vPro®?
Intel vPro is the business computing foundation needed to navigate today’s challenges and capitalize on tomorrow’s opportunities. Designed with sustainability in mind and tested for the demands of the modern workplace, Intel vPro comprises a set of built-for-business hardware and software technologies built right into the PC. These technologies are tuned for peak business performance and include hardware-based security features and remote management capabilities to help keep business running with fewer interruptions.
With the broadest choice of form factors, a wide range of power-performance options, and support for multiple operating systems, Intel vPro offers a professional-grade, interoperable experience that helps employees and users of all types and business sizes do their best work from any location.
Businesses and IT professionals across the globe are realizing the tangible benefits of the Intel vPro platform. In a 2021 study by Forrester Consulting:
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92 percent of IT professionals surveyed found that their laptops and desktops were more secure than before standardizing on Intel vPro.4
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74 percent found that laptop and desktop management costs had been reduced with Intel vPro.4
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91 percent reported that laptops and desktops ran faster and better than before implementing Intel vPro.4
Benefits of the Intel vPro® Platform
Intel vPro offers IT professionals, end users, and businesses a variety of benefits, including:
- Professional-grade performance enables a great PC experience, essential for business productivity. Intel vPro helps boost employee effectiveness and performance across workloads and applications. The latest devices powered by Intel Core Ultra processors with Intel vPro support AI for business, unlocking new capabilities for productivity, collaboration, and creation.
- Integrated, multilayer hardware-based security measures are enabled right out of the box. These include AI-powered threat detection that actively assists in monitoring for threats to help protect business resources and data.
- Complete remote management capabilities5 enable IT teams to discover, configure, update, repair, and even retire user devices no matter where they are.
- Stability benefits allow IT departments to maintain their fleet, scale confidently, and transition from one OS generation to the next, all on their schedule.
- Rigorous hardware component testing ensures all devices built on Intel vPro deliver a reliable and seamless professional-grade experience.
Gain Professional-Grade PC Performance
Setting your employees up for success starts by equipping them with powerful PCs that meet their work needs and provide an enjoyable user experience.
PCs built on Intel vPro are powered by Intel Core Ultra processors, so users get the performance they need to fully take advantage of demanding business applications, easily tackling difficult workloads.
For creative team members where high performance is critical, sales representatives out in the field talking to customers, or human resources professionals onboarding new employees, PCs built on Intel vPro and powered by Intel Core Ultra processors equip your employees with the computing power they need to excel at whatever they do.
When using a PC built on Intel vPro and powered by Intel Core Ultra, your users are more productive with up to 59% better application performance compared to a three-year-old device,6 and users are more productive with up to 11% better application performance than last year’s devices.7 Give your users everything they’ll need with PCs powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra processors, which provide up to 82% better graphics performance compared to last year’s devices, making difficult workloads more manageable.8
Compatible Intel® Processors
Devices built on Intel vPro are available with a broad range of Intel processors, enabling you to choose the combination that best meets your business needs for power optimization, graphics performance, memory, form factor, and more.
Depending upon your end-user requirements, Intel vPro can be paired with select generations of Intel Core processors or, for powerful mobile workstations, with Intel® Xeon® W processors.
Additionally, Intel vPro-based devices with Intel Core Ultra processors incorporate AI-enabled productivity enhancements and provide additional security and manageability features. Choose Intel Core Ultra processors to help your users run all the applications they need right now while also preparing your fleet for emerging AI PC use cases. Built-in AI tools that handle mundane productivity tasks can help your hard work go farther in everyday scenarios like summarizing meetings, writing emails or documents, and even generating code.
Video calls are better with AI features for real-time language translation and transcription, more accurate eye tracking, reduced background noise, and improved appearances—and you can leverage the NPU when applicable to preserve overall performance and system power consumption. When it comes to running an LLM, you can keep sensitive data and IP in-house by running models on an Intel vPro-based AI PC instead of in the cloud.
Boost PC Protection with Multilayer, Hardware-Based Security
The security threat landscape is constantly changing. Additionally, the growth of hybrid and remote workforces has introduced new IT complexities and potential vulnerabilities when protecting PCs outside an organization’s firewall.
Intel vPro® Security is built to address these advanced challenges with integrated, multilayer security features designed for dispersed fleets. This includes out-of-the-box protections above and below the OS to help reduce the device’s attack surface, along with AI-powered threat detection that actively monitors against attacks. Security integrated at the hardware level helps prevent malware injection, protect user log-in credentials, and keep applications and sensitive data secure; below-the-OS features help defend against firmware-based attacks. Additionally, PCs built on Intel vPro® Enterprise for Windows can be reached even if the OS is down, allowing your team to access devices that have been compromised regardless of where the device is located.910
Protect your PC fleet from cyberattacks, even those that evade traditional detection methods, with Intel® Threat Detection Technology (Intel® TDT). As one of the built-in hardware-based security capabilities on Intel vPro-based devices, Intel TDT profiles and detects malware using CPU telemetry and Machine Learning algorithms. Intel TDT also enables software-based security solutions to scan deeper and more frequently to find file-less attacks sooner.
You and your team can gain peace of mind and be more productive knowing that the Intel vPro platform's multilayer protections actively help safeguard users from malicious attacks and your business from breaches, all with minimal impact on system performance.
Get Complete Remote Management
With hybrid work now being used as a strategic workforce policy, offices and employee devices are now anywhere employees choose to work. This can make it more costly and time-consuming for IT teams to monitor, manage, and protect PCs.
To help IT simplify and streamline support for an improved end-user experience, the Intel vPro platform provides modern hardware-based management capabilities via Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT). Available with all devices built on Intel vPro® Enterprise for Windows, Intel AMT provides the advanced remote management tools IT teams need to manage a distributed fleet, including the ability to:
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Remotely repair corrupted drivers, application software, or even the OS of non-responsive systems.
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Better manage inventory by detecting and monitoring the status of all endpoints on a network, independent of their power state, OS status, or connectivity type.
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Keep the whole fleet consistent and up to date with remote, scheduled automated software patches and updates.
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Reduce the number of software-based interruptions users experience by remotely waking systems and patching them during off hours.
With Intel vPro, IT staff can avoid up to 90% of hardware-related onsite visits11, helping to lower costs and improve IT productivity, and hardware-related issues can be resolved up to 83% faster with Intel vPro-based devices.11
Additionally, Intel vPro remote management capabilities can help positively impact your business's sustainability efforts while helping you stretch your budget and increase IT efficiency. For example, IT can perform PC maintenance or resolve issues without a truck roll or in-person desk visit. To help control energy costs and increase efficiency, IT can remotely set device wake times or power down entire fleets when they’re not needed. Learn more about sustainable IT and the sustainability benefits of the Intel vPro platform.
Improve PC Reliability and Stability
Stable, validated hardware helps keep your business running and your users productive. Validated hardware can enable smoother fleet management and business continuity, allowing you to focus your IT resources on business growth and innovation.
A key ingredient to the stability and reliability offered with Intel vPro Enterprise PCs is the Intel® Stable IT Platform Program (Intel® SIPP), which aims to keep hardware components consistent for 15 months from product launch, including the silicon on the motherboard, the design, and each physical component. We partner with OEMs and OS providers to conduct thousands of tests and feedback loops yearly to certify that Intel vPro platform-based PCs meet rigorous standards and are validated for business. This also means that Intel maintains corporate platform validation for multiple OS versions at a time so IT teams can transition from one OS generation to the next on their schedule. Our multistep validation process also helps ensure that the highest possible standards are maintained throughout the PC value chain, from Intel to OEM to IT to end user. This gives IT and end users the stability and reliability of a true business-class device.
IT teams can be confident in scaling out their organization, knowing they won’t have to worry about revalidation when supplying systems around the globe. A 2024 survey of IT decision makers found that the stability of devices built on Intel vPro can help reduce device-management-related help desk tickets by up to 40%.11
A Business Computing Foundation for Professional-Grade PCs
As the workplace has evolved, so too have employee and business technology needs. Supporting the business and its end users has never been more complex. However, with the right platform and set of technologies—like those offered by Intel vPro—you can simplify that complexity while delivering the performance everyone needs to succeed.