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Enable optimal employee productivity and help support and protect your distributed workforce with professional-grade PCs built on a computing platform designed to help with the rigors of modern business.

Modern Workplace Requirements

  • Today’s dynamic business environments and work-from-anywhere employees need a holistic PC platform built for business.

  • Business PCs today should offer performance tuned for the workloads and applications that business professionals use the most.

  • Intel® processors and the Intel vPro® platform help enable what employees want and IT needs for optimal PC performance and productivity.

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To succeed in today’s dynamic business environment, employees at companies of all sizes need powerful PCs that provide the performance necessary for any task, no matter their location. Concurrently, IT requires tools to secure and manage those devices efficiently and effectively without impacting employee productivity. Outfitting your fleet with business PCs built on the Intel vPro® platform—rigorously tested for the demands of the modern workforce—can help you to maximize your technology investment while giving your team the technology to help them do their best work from anywhere with fewer interruptions.

Powering a Hybrid Workforce

The hybrid work model, now a common preference and strategic workforce policy to attract and retain talent, has transformed how work gets done, as well as the requirements for supporting employee productivity needs.

For IT, enabling a successful, efficient, distributed workforce necessitates business technology that delivers a user experience built to meet real-world needs.

  • Reliable and fast connectivity from anywhere
  • Professional-grade performance to support multitasking, content creation, video streaming, and virtual collaboration
  • The ability to secure devices and protect users in a variety of environments from ever-evolving cyberthreats
  • The ability to remotely maintain a fleet of devices efficiently without negatively impacting PC performance

Older technology that wasn’t built for today’s use cases or to scale for tomorrow’s needs may not be able to adequately handle these requirements or those of newer systems. This is top of mind for IT professionals supporting businesses of all sizes.

In a 2022 Forrester survey of industry decision-makers, 69 percent of ITDM respondents indicated that enabling hybrid work for their employees is a top priority; however, 61 percent of ITDMs reported that their ability to support hybrid work was inhibited by poorly performing PCs, and 58 percent anticipated a struggle to support future hybrid work with the PCs they have.1

Business PCs for Enhanced Productivity

Setting your employees up for success with business technology designed for how they work helps to drive productivity and contributes to employee satisfaction overall. In fact, mature organizations are 20 percent more likely to experience improved employee retention as a benefit of investing in high-performance, stable PCs.1

There are several key factors to look for in business PCs that can meet the demands of today’s dynamic workplaces.

  • Professional-Grade Performance: PCs built for business should provide sufficient performance capacity to reduce interruptions and support a better end user experience. Devices should respond not only to the data-intensive workload and workflow needs of business users of all types but also provide additional compute headroom to support IT security, manageability, and telemetry tasks without impacting productivity.
  • Connectivity: Business devices should be equipped to deliver reliable and fast connectivity in a variety of environments to maximize employee productivity and customer and coworker interactions at the pace business demands.
  • Form Factor: Employees need devices that deliver the performance they require in a form factor that supports the type of work they do. A mobile employee may need a lightweight, durable laptop with a long battery life and Wi-Fi connectivity, while an engineer or creator may need a workhorse desktop or robust workstation to handle their compute-intensive workloads and applications.
  • Security: Enterprise cyberthreats are becoming more advanced, especially because of the nature of a distributed workforce working beyond the firewall. Software-based security alone typically cannot address the sophistication of today’s attacks, and a comprehensive endpoint security solution is required. Business PCs that offer hardware-based security working in tandem with software-based security solutions can help to limit the impact of attacks and protect data and computing infrastructure.Additionally, hardware-based security capabilities are now becoming a system requirement to support modern operating systems. For example, Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0 capabilities as well as a certain level of CPU performance, which older systems cannot support.
  • PC Fleet Management Tools: Efficiently and effectively supporting today’s distributed workforce presents added challenges for IT teams who must remotely manage and maintain a fleet of devices. To better support employees and the companies they work for, minimize downtime, and reduce support tickets, IT needs business PCs built on a reliable and stable platform and a complete suite of remote management tools that can enable proactive maintenance and troubleshooting, even on devices outside the corporate firewall or with nonresponsive operating systems.

Reasons to Consider a Refresh

The modern business environment has been dramatically transformed, and the impact of new use cases on older devices will be substantial. What has occurred is not just digital transformation, but an entirely new way of working that must be supported by performant technologies.

Additionally, computing technology continues to evolve, and any future technology systems will take these collaborative productivity and complex workloads into their designs to ensure performance.

As a result, older PCs will simply not be able to keep up with the technologies that power productivity going forward. Investments made to modernize business PC fleets will contribute positively to the bottom line by providing employees with the performance they need today and tomorrow for optimal productivity and IT teams with the tools they need to keep your business running.

Intel vPro®: Built for Business

Intel vPro® is the unrivaled business computing foundation for organizations of all sizes.2

Intel vPro® systems are designed and tested for the demands of the modern workplace. Specifically tuned for peak business performance,2 each PC is equipped with hardware-based security and remote management capabilities that help protect businesses while providing them with a professional-grade interoperable experience.

Professional-Grade Performance

Intel vPro® Enterprise for Windows delivers professional-grade performance out of the box with an integrated suite of transformative technologies for the demanding business workloads and applications business professional use the most.

For example, devices on the Intel vPro® platform powered by 13th Gen Intel® Core™ processors benefit from Intel’s innovative processor design that dynamically balances performance and efficiency, enabling a better user experience for employees,3 such as better business productivity with up to 30 percent faster mainstream application performance compared to the current competitive offerings.4

Variety of Form Factors and Optimized Connectivity

Intel vPro® platform-based PCs are available in a variety of form factors and designed specifically to help provide optimal performance for users of all types. Integrated Wi-Fi 6E (Gig+) and future Wi-Fi 7 capabilities offer employees fast connections to not only work from anywhere, but also enjoy a premium business experience with a connection strong enough to support the most bandwidth-demanding apps. Laptops built with integrated Wi-Fi 6E (Gig+) provide nearly 3x faster speeds than standard Wi-Fi 5 products.5 They also deliver next-generation WPA3 Wi-Fi security features6 and up to 4x greater capacity for more-stable connections even in dense environments.7

Thunderbolt™ technology, a feature of the Intel vPro® platform for many generations, delivers the fastest, simplest, and most reliable cable solution to any dock, display, or data device, supporting 4K video on multiple displays or moving massive files at amazing speed.8

Security and Complete Manageability

Developed for the IT professionals of today and tomorrow, Intel vPro® Enterprise for Windows also equips IT to secure and manage a hybrid workforce, without having to touch the PC9 while helping to boost user productivity—all in a single solution designed for business. Many features are enabled right out of the box, so IT can be confident with interoperable tools to enhance user productivity, help secure business data, manage critical devices remotely, and scale their fleet with confidence on a reliable foundation. In a 2021 study by Forrester Consulting on the total economic impact of the Intel vPro® platform, 92 percent of IT professionals surveyed found that their laptops and desktops were more secure than before, after standardizing on Intel vPro®, and 74 percent of ITDMs surveyed found that laptop and desktop management costs had been reduced with Intel vPro®.10

Built-In Sustainability Benefits

As sustainability becomes a greater mainstream priority, PCs built on the Intel vPro® platform deliver built-in sustainability benefits for business throughout the device life cycle, from build to retire. Additionally, more than 90 percent of the devices built on the Intel vPro® platform and registered by the Global Electronics Council achieve at least EPEAT silver certification.11 This means you can equip your workforce with a performant device that meets their needs while also helping to contribute to your organization’s sustainability goals.

The Bottom Line

Today’s workplace has changed, as have employee technology needs. At the same time, gen-over-gen improvements have advanced compute performance to support today’s complex workloads and business-centric applications. Having a holistic platform such as the Intel vPro® platform ensures employees have the power they need for real-world use while simultaneously ensuring your IT staff can support them.

Dive deeper into the capabilities of the Intel vPro® platform

Product and Performance Information

1“Happy and Productive: How Reliable PCs Impact the Hybrid Workforce,” Intel, accessed April 24, 2023, intel.com/content/www/us/en/business/enterprise-computers/resources/how-reliable-pcs-impact-the-hybrid-workforce.html.
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All versions of the Intel vPro® platform require an eligible Intel processor, a supported operating system, Intel® LAN and/or WLAN silicon, firmware enhancements, and other hardware and software necessary to deliver the manageability use cases, security features, system performance, and stability that define the platform. See intel.com/performance-vpro for details.

3“A Strong Foundation for Business Computing,” Intel, accessed May 18, 2023, intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/vpro/13th-gen-vpro-processors-brief.html.
4As measured by Crossmark overall score on 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1370P vs. AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U. Performance results are based on testing as of 01/10/2023. See intel.com/PerformanceIndex for workloads and configurations. Results may vary.
5Nearly 3x faster: 802.11ax 2x2 160 MHz enables 2402 Mbps maximum theoretical data rates, ~3x (2.8x) faster than standard 802.11ac 2x2 80 MHz (867 Mbps) as documented in IEEE 802.11 wireless standard specifications and require the use of similarly configured 802.11ax wireless network routers.
6WPA3 Wi-Fi security features: The Wi-Fi Alliance industry consortium will certify Wi-Fi 6 products for compliance with the IEEE 802.11ax standard and will require WPA3 security certification as a prerequisite to ensure the latest in Wi-Fi security features. WPA3 simplified passwords: WPA3 uses Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE) to replace the pre-shared key (PSK) exchange protocol used by WPA2. SAE more securely handles initial key exchange and uses forward secrecy, which makes it more resistant to offline decryption attacks and provides stronger password-based authentication. WPA3 enhanced protection: Additional network protection comes from the equivalent of 192-bit cryptographic strength across an 802.11ax network and is superior to the 128-bit AES encryption used with WPA2.
74x capacity/scalability: This claim is based on a comparison of overall network capacity for similarly sized 802.11ax vs. 802.11ac networks. The IEEE 802.11-14/0165r1 802.11ax specification amendment defines standardized modifications to both the IEEE 802.11 physical layers (PHY) and the IEEE 802.11 medium access control (MAC) layer that enable at least one mode of operation capable of supporting at least 4x improvement in the average throughput per station (measured at the MAC data service access point) in a dense deployment scenario while maintaining or improving the power efficiency per station. For additional details visit: mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0165-01-0hew-802-11-hew-sg-proposed-par.docx.
8As compared to other PC I/O connection technologies, including eSATA, USB, and IEEE 1394 FireWire. For more information, visit intel.com/PerformanceIndex (Connectivity). Results may vary.
9Both Intel® Standard Manageability and Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT) support remote out-of-band capabilities on provisioned Windows PCs, but only Intel vPro® Enterprise for Windows with AMT supports remote keyboard, video, mouse (KVM) control.
10“The Total Economic Impact™ of the Intel vPro® Platform,” an Intel-commissioned study by Forrester Consulting, January 2021, which surveyed 416 ITDMs at enterprises across the world using Intel vPro® platforms, including the US, the UK, Germany, Japan, and China. Seventy-four percent of respondents marked “agree” or “strongly agree” to this statement. Results may vary.
11Based on data in the EPEAT Registry as of June 24, 2022, hosted by the Global Electronics Council, for computing client products in the market 2019‒2022. Data is global and covers Desktop, Integrated Desktop Computer, and Notebook form factors. Intel, AMD, and Apple devices are compared. Visit epeat.net/about-epeat to learn more about the registry.