Scuderia Ferrari HP: How Technology and Partnership Inspire Workforce Innovation
Inspired by Scuderia Ferrari’s Formula 1 team, HP harnesses bleeding-edge technology and AI to push the limits of performance and innovation. Can these advancements also usher in the next frontier in workforce productivity?
Scuderia Ferrari and HP are two of the world’s most trusted and iconic brands. Scuderia Ferrari epitomizes speed, innovation, and perfection and is recognized as the most successful F1 racing team in history, while HP is a leader in cutting-edge technology solutions that boost productivity and efficiency.
Their historic partnership underlines a shared passion for performance, innovation, and excellence. With a rich history of pushing technological boundaries, both companies continue to redefine what’s possible, whether on the racetrack or in the workplace.
Now, consider how Scuderia Ferrari’s relentless drive for innovation on the racetrack can inspire similar advancements in your workplace. How far can the relationship between employees and their technology go? Can AI enhance productivity in the same way it can support state-of-the-art motorsport performance? Let’s take a closer look at how Scuderia Ferrari leverages technology to stay ahead and how HP can bring the same level of precision, speed, and performance to the digital employee experience.
From Racetrack to Workplace: Technologies That Can Power the Workforce Experience
Breakthrough innovations across Formula 1 racing creates faster cars and improves reliability and safety. With the right technologies, teams can make smarter, faster decisions that elevate performance on and off the track.
Data and analytics in racing
In Formula 1, success is a direct result of optimizing every variable in a complex environment. Downforce, temperature, tire performance, speed, torque, and driver response times are just a few of the factors that can determine the outcome. As races unfold, teams face split-second decisions that require advanced innovations to maintain a competitive edge.
Scuderia Ferrari leverages cutting-edge technology to anticipate problems before they surface, ensuring their cars run at peak performance throughout every race. The cars are equipped with hundreds of sensors that generate massive amounts of data. They can assess driver performance along with vehicle behavior and track conditions. This helps them pinpoint areas for fine-tuning and optimize car setups, tire performance, and system operations.
Artificial intelligence in racing
Race teams are now leveraging the power of artificial intelligence for deeper insights and to optimize performance in ways never thought possible. AI is used to analyze simulations, detect patterns in competitors’ behavior, save time and resources through automation, perform millions of real-time calculations during races, and even expedite the delivery of parts to the racetrack.
In F1, the impact of these technological advancements is clear. Vehicle speeds have gone from 90 mph to 230 mph (370 km/h), and DNF (did not finish) rates, including mechanical failures and driver crashes, have improved from over 50% of starts in the 1980s to about 12% today.
The Complex Future of Work
In hybrid and remote work environments, employees are faced with their own version of the racetrack: an increasingly complex digital environment with multiple devices, applications, and cloud networks. The average desk worker now uses 11 applications to complete their tasks, and there are more devices connected to IP networks than ever.
Employees often feel overwhelmed while IT teams must work overtime to optimize and manage their entire fleet of devices, including PCs, printers, collaboration equipment, and more. However, the rise in digital friction creates an opportunity to apply similar technologies used in motorsports.
Data and analytics in the workplace
Workforce telemetry is the automated process of collecting, transmitting, and analyzing data from employee devices. Where Scuderia Ferrari leverages data, analytics, and AI to fine-tune car and driver performance—companies can apply similar technologies across the modern workplace.
Digital friction, such as system slowdowns, app crashes, delayed software updates, outdated devices, or connectivity issues, can significantly disrupt workflows and reduce productivity. Insights from workforce telemetry data can help anticipate IT issues before they impact users, optimize resource utilization, and enable proactive solutions so employees can perform their best, no matter where they work.
Artificial intelligence in the workplace
According to HP’s Work Relationship Index, 54% of knowledge workers, 72% of business leaders, and 70% of IT decision-makers believe AI can improve the work-life balance. Employees also believe AI can streamline tasks and make their jobs easier and more interesting.
AI will be instrumental in shaping the future of the workplace. Just as race teams leverage AI to maximize performance, organizations can use telemetry and AI to automate repetitive tasks, intelligently anticipate and remediate issues, and personalize IT across the workforce.
How HP Is Reinventing the Workforce Experience
At HP, we’re at the forefront of harnessing the power of AI. We now have the industry’s largest portfolio of AI PCs and devices, including the world’s most advanced business laptops, the world’s most comprehensive workstation solution for AI development, and the industry’s broadest portfolio of certified conferencing room solutions and headsets. These devices provide powerful tools to boost creativity, foster collaboration, and deliver superior user experiences in hybrid work settings.
In addition to hardware, the HP Workforce Experience Platform (WXP) is a device- and OS-agnostic digital employee experience solution that combines AI and telemetry insights to proactively solve IT problems, reduce digital friction, and boost employee productivity across the organization. It is a petabyte-scale data operation that aggregates anonymized telemetry data from 38+ million connected devices to deliver the best insights and recommendations to CIOs and IT leaders across the world.
Boasting native-AI capabilities for smart device refreshes, anomaly detection, automated remediations, and the ability to create dynamic employee profiles, organizations can gather feedback to personalize and improve digital employee experiences.
Why do these innovations and technology leadership matter?
For HP and customers, the benefits are clear across several key areas:
- Reliability: IT teams can gain greater visibility and control over their digital ecosystems and minimize disruptions to ensure everything runs smoothly. With telemetry, IT teams can detect anomalies, predict and prevent system failures, maintain a 99.9% SLA for operational uptime, and minimize employee downtime.
- Performance and engagement: The modern workforce can use real-time telemetry data from devices to identify productivity bottlenecks, streamline workflows, and allow companies to tailor productivity solutions for their employees.
- Comparative analysis: Workforce telemetry gathers anonymized data from many user devices and enables comparative analysis by benchmarking performance against industry leaders. Organizations can identify best practices, performance gaps, and strategic opportunities.
- ROI: With telemetry data, organizations can use actionable insights to identify underutilized resources, optimize asset allocation, lower costs, and extend the life of IT assets.
The Future is Now
The future of work isn’t on the horizon—it’s unfolding right now. Inspired by the speed and precision of Formula 1 and the Scuderia Ferrari team, HP is transforming how organizations approach productivity and employee engagement. By leveraging the same data-driven, AI-powered strategies that fuel Scuderia Ferrari’s success on the track, we’re ensuring that the modern workplace is primed for victory.
If you’re interested in learning more about the HP Workforce Experience Platform, we’re excited to share that we’ve launched beta access for U.S. Proactive Insights customers this month.
Sign up today to be among the first to try out its new features and capabilities. Check out this article for more details.
HP Workforce Experience Platform¹ is a comprehensive and modular digital employee experience solution that enables organizations to personalize IT for every employee’s needs.
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Here's everything you need to know about WXP.
WXP is an AI-powered digital employee experience (DEX) solution that integrates with various systems and devices to maximize IT efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance the employee experience.1
WXP equips technology leaders with detailed performance insights of PCs, printers and more, coupled with enhanced preventative workflows to maximize end-user productivity while reducing costs. The SaaS-based platform also has an advanced employee engagement engine and integrates with various third-party systems like ServiceNow, PowerBI, and Tableau, along with integrating printers, virtual desktops, mobile devices and more to maximize IT efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance the employee experience.
The platform’s modular design allows for tailored customization and scalability to meet specific business needs. Presently, WXP integrates capabilities for fleet management (formerly HP Proactive Insights) and employee engagement, facilitating direct communication between IT and employees, and targeted feedback collection via device pop-ups and self-help capabilities. Planned optional, add-on modules will include additional devices for fleet management, endpoint security, and Digital Workspaces powered by HP Anyware, all supported by enterprise-level support. Additionally, there are add-on options for hardware, managed services, and print software.
WXP is designed to be modular, allowing organizations to tailor the solution to their specific needs, including Fleet Management, Employee Engagement, Digital Workspaces, and Endpoint Security.
The modular design allows companies to select the capabilities needed to achieve business goals. New capabilities can be added to an existing portal as their business needs change and expand. Initially, WXP comes with fleet management and employee engagement, with the ability to add-on endpoint security, digital workplaces, and/or HP support services for an additional fee.
The Platform’s agnostic design allows seamless integration with systems and devices running Windows, macOS, and Android operating systems, regardless of manufacturer. WXP is a cloud-based solution that uses firewall-friendly network ports and sits atop other systems versus a rip-and-replace solution. It does not require a VPN or direct, deep access to customer networks.
WXP has open APIs for incident and analytics integration to IT tools, as well as pre-configured connectors for ServiceNow, PowerBI, and Tableau available in the 3rd party integrations.
A Workforce Experience score combines telemetry and user satisfaction sentiment for a comprehensive view of the digital workforce experience. The score refreshes daily, ensuring timely insights. Understand which departments, device models, operating systems, countries, site locations, and devices with specific software installed are experiencing the lowest and highest Experience scores.
The main dashboard provides a snapshot of the workforce experience and critical recommendations for IT teams to act on. IT teams quickly understand where to focus with insights from the Experience score and trendline, fleet inventory breakdown, apps with poor performance, and sentiment by persona.
AI is built into the fabric of WXP and makes it easy for IT teams to optimize processes and prevent technology issues by providing:
- Recommendations: Identify issues from device data and survey results to share recommended actions.
- Assistance: Take the recommendation and make it executable by IT or an end-user in just a few clicks.
- Automation: Experience optimization with AI anticipating issues and resolving them with no human involvement.
WXP is now available to new and renewing HP Proactive Insights customers in the United States at no additional cost.
Additionally, our beta program is expanding to more countries, in a multi-phased, customer-focused approach to solve our customers’ biggest pain points. Talk to an HP expert to see how WXP can intelligently anticipate and resolve digital friction within your organization.
