Some technologies are more exciting than others because they have the potential to power both your personal and your work life. One of those technologies that has made a huge splash and become an easily deciphered industry buzzword is blockchain. If you are investing in cryptocurrencies or exploring business use cases as part of your day to day work, then you know what we are talking about.
For enterprises, blockchain brings better efficiency, lowers costs, and opens new business opportunities establishing trust between parties. Just like any other emerging technology, important roadblocks still need to be addressed for blockchain such as governance, compliance, data privacy, scalability, operations, security, platform functionality, and people and organizational readiness.
Investments From Enterprise Tech Leaders
At 2018 SAPPHIRE NOW this week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), joined the global blockchain consortium that SAP launched as a founding member. Together, HPE and SAP will co-innovate and work on blockchain use cases, push for industry standards and lead the conversations on important topics like governance for data sharing and approaches for specific industries. The joint solutions will be built on the SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain, HPE advisory services, consumption expertise, and platform technologies from HPE, delivered as-a-service. The solutions will address the key problems faced by enterprise customers such as validating authenticity of semiconductor chip, transparency of asset records in the value chain or improving visibility in global trade.
Three Services from HPE Pointnext to Unleash Blockchain Potential
With so many opportunities, voices, and initiatives in the Blockchain world, it is critical to have a clear vision and a strong technology partner ecosystem to be able to identify and address specific business needs. To help enterprises understand what blockchain can do for their business and accelerate its adoption, HPE has developed various proofs-of-concept with industry-leading partners such as Ethereum, R3 Corda, Lequinox, Streamr, and open, standard HPE platforms. HPE has also launched its own HPE Mission Critical Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), which enables customers to run distributed ledger workloads on the highest availability enterprise platforms. In parallel, HPE Pointnext conducts transformation workshops that help customers select the best Blockchain platform for their own needs and use case. If you are ready to explore, experiment with, and evolve your blockchain strategy HPE Services for Blockchain include:
HPE Blockchain Transformation Workshop- Understand what blockchain can do for your business, identify uses cases for your business, what impact it will have on your application strategy, and what the possible security implications are.
HPE Blockchain Proof-of-Value- Take one of your use cases and put blockchain to the test. HPE Pointnext experts will assess and deploy the selected blockchain platform and use case using a distributed application/smart contract. Discover if blockchain has the potential to deliver quantifiable business value.
HPE Blockchain Implementation- This service will help you implement your blockchain vision, define the Hybrid IT infrastructure required to deploy blockchain, identify the skills your staff will require to exploit blockchain, and will develop the distributed applications/smart contracts needed to deliver the business functionality across multiple business units.
Learn more in person: Meet us at Sapphire Now or at HPE Discover
Learn more about other announcements stemming from this year’s SAPPHIRE NOW event or if you are attending HPE Discover, Las Vegas June 19-21 here are some sessions that may be interest to you:
- Riding the Blockchain Wave: What the Next Big Disruptor Means for Your Business, Tue, 12:00-1:00 PM, B5004. Join HPE Pointnext experts to hear what Blockchain means for your current and future business, and how it has the potential to be far more disruptive than the technologies that gave us Uber and iTunes.
- Get Ready to unleash the power of Enterprise-Grade Blockchain, Tue 4:30-5:30 PM, PNL4810. Hear from a panel of technology and industry experts as they discuss Blockchain’s impact and give practical advice to address the challenges enterprise organizations face as they move forward.
- Blockchain for the Real World: How to Harness It for Your Business, Wed, 1:00 PM-1:30 PM, DF5005. This session will look at how companies are using Blockchain now, and how you can capitalize on the technology with your own use cases.
- Leverage the advanced analytic features of SAP HANA for deeper insights, Thu 12:00 - 12:30 PM, DF5069. In this session we will showcase an HPE customer that used SAP HANA to change their business model and provide proactive and predictive solutions for customers.
For more information on HPE Blockchain Solutions visit us at www.hpe.com/info/Blockchain
Beena Ammanath
VP - Artificial Intelligence, Data & Innovation
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Twitter: @beena_ammanath
LinkedIn: bammanath
Beena_Ammanath
Global VP - Artificial Intelligence, Data & Innovation at HPE. Founder and CEO of Humans For AI, Startups Advisor. Executive leader with a passion for leveraging technology to make human lives better.
