Forrester: Intel® vPro™ platform can bring 155% return to enterprises

Intel has announced the results of a new Forrester Consulting* study, “The Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) of the Intel® vPro™ Platform.” Forrester Consulting conducted the study on behalf of Intel Corporation to examine the return on investment (ROI) that enterprises can achieve by deploying PCs based on the Intel vPro platform.

“Intel is delivering a PC platform built for business,” said Michael Nordquist, director of strategic planning and architecture, Commercial Client Platforms Group, Intel Corporation. “Forrester’s TEI study shows that the Intel vPro platform for IT not only delivers significant value in terms of overall ROI, but also provides significant benefits to users, who can focus on their work with a faster, more stable platform. Our commitment to innovation ensures that the Intel vPro platform combines the best security, manageability, and performance to make it an easy choice for users.”

Interpretation of research reports

As more businesses digitally transform their workplaces, the PC remains a primary tool for productivity. Information technology (IT) managers must make important decisions to ensure the PCs they choose have modern capabilities, are easy to manage, and can help better protect corporate assets.

As part of the TEI study, Forrester Consulting surveyed and interviewed more than 250 IT managers from a variety of industries in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, and China.

To better illustrate the findings, Forrester created a composite organizational model based on a midsize enterprise. The organization has 750 desktops and laptops with Intel Core vPro processors running Windows 10 Pro1. Forrester found that the organization could realize $2.8 million in benefits over three years from this deployment, a 155% ROI on the $1.1 million cost. Highlights include:

• Fewer security issues, resulting in reduced security support and management workload, with an estimated 7,680 hours of security incident support time saved each year: Over three years, the organization's security support and management costs are expected to be reduced by up to $1.2 million.

• Significant improvements in employee productivity through better device security features and management, saving an estimated 28,160 hours: The organization's employee productivity gains are estimated to be worth $1.3 million over three years.

• Significantly improve PC and data security by reducing the risk of data breaches through hardware-enhanced security and manageability features: The organization will avoid more than $211,000 in costs over three years as a result of improved desktop PC data security.

• Faster, more timely IT patching: The organization's IT managers and desktop operations staff saved an estimated 832 hours deploying patches and fielding exceptions, saving a total of $81,000 over three years.

Based on three user interviews and surveys of 256 institutions or organizations, the three-year financial impact forecast of organizations migrating their diverse environments to new laptops and desktops using Intel® vPro™ processors and Windows 10. (Source: Forrester Consulting)

Significance

IT departments face rising management costs, high call center inquiries, and reduced end-user efficiency due to the mix of different versions, processor specifications, and operating system versions.

After choosing Intel® vPro™ processors and Microsoft Windows 10* operating system, the companies interviewed and surveyed in the TEI study found that its better security features, more effective management tools and higher employee efficiency brought them excellent value and advantages.

The Intel® vPro™ platform is the foundation of business computing. It delivers best-in-class performance, outstanding security features, remote manageability, and stability to improve employee productivity, protect corporate security, reduce operating costs, and minimize disruption to work. 

Through three user interviews and surveys of 256 institutions or organizations, the three-year financial impact of the Intel® vPro™ platform running on Windows 10 is based on several major areas of advantage, nearly half of which is due to better avoidance and resolution of security issues and reduced data security risks.