Chris Weber - HPE’s South Pacific Enterprise Group general manager of Technology Services
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has launched its new Technology Services business, Pointnext, in a move that sees the company turn its focus solidly on the services needed to help companies accelerate their digital transformations.
The new business, which is essentially a re-launch of the company’s Technology Services unit, was announced on 2 March, with the aim of narrowing its focus on helping customers adopt emerging technologies.
It combines HPE's consulting and support organisations in one group under general manager, Ana Pinczuk, the former chief product officer at Veritas.
Ultimately, the idea behind the revamped business division is to draw upon the expertise of more than 25,000 specialists in 80 countries across a range of disciplines to collaborate with businesses in a bid to speed their adoption of emerging technologies.
These new and emerging technologies include cloud computing and hybrid IT, big data and analytics, the Intelligent Edge and Internet of Things (IoT).
Here’s what HPE said about the new business when it was first announced:
The Pointnext team helps customers harness the power of hybrid IT, real-time data and analytics, and mobile solutions to enhance customer experiences, create and deliver new digital product and services, and improve core operations at unprecedented speed and efficiency.
HPE said that Pointnext will provide three types of services in its fresh drive to narrow its focus on new and emerging technology: advisory and transformation, professional and operational.
"Pointnext services will be the front lines of our engagement with customers – to quickly and nimbly design, integrate and optimise digital solutions critical to the success of enterprises of all sizes,” said Pinczuk, who was brought on board to lead HPE’s Technology Services business in February.
While Pointnext’s strategy is currently focused on heavily on emerging tech and digital transformation, HPE’s South Pacific Enterprise Group general manager of Technology Services, Chris Weber, is clear that the goals of the business, under Pinczuk’s leadership, will remain dynamic and will likely change over time.
For now, however, one of Pointnext’s main focus areas is on helping customers that need support on core infrastructure, according to Weber, and on assisting them to remove some of their lower-end tasks, administrative tasks, so they can focus on growing their business.
Given that the business is turning its gaze on some of the areas habitually covered by providers within the HPE partner network, Weber is conscious of wanting to make sure that partners are not cut out of the picture when it comes to local projects.
