HP Buys Vyopta To Boost ‘AI-Driven’ Insights and Workspace Platform

'Together, we will deliver more AI-driven, streamlined, and comprehensive insights that enable an agile, resilient, and productive workforce,' says HP executive Faisal Masud, regarding the acquisition of Vyopta.

Hewlett Packard has acquired collaboration management standout Vyopta in a move to boost HP’s Workforce Experience Platform and to provide its customers with more AI-driven insights.

“Vyopta has revolutionized the way organizations deliver collaboration experiences by providing contextual intelligence, unified visibility, and actionable alerts across a wide range of business collaboration applications, devices, and infrastructure,” said Faisal Masud, president of HP digital services, in a statement.

“Together, we will deliver more AI-driven, streamlined, and comprehensive insights that enable an agile, resilient, and productive workforce,” Masud said.

HP’s Workforce Experience Platform is designed to improve the employee experience and simplify IT management by giving customers control over their digital ecosystem from a single pane of glass.

Founded in 2007, Austin, Texas-based Vyopta provides contextual intelligence, visibility and actionable alerts for business collaboration applications, devices and infrastructure.

Vyopta said it serves hundreds of large enterprises and MSPs across the globe.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

How Vyopta Will Accelerate HP

HP’s purchase of Vyopta is expected to expand the company’s capabilities around space and applications management including enhanced fleet management with Vyopta providing multi-vendor monitoring, analytics, space utilization and occupancy tracking.

Vyopta provides collaboration management solutions that offers analytics and monitoring for unified communications and collaboration networks. Its Technology Insights and Space Insights applications have helped identify and address over 9 million issues.

By buying Vyopta, HP also plans to boost end-to-end insights based on telemetry captured from on-premises and cloud collaboration technologies to deliver visibility across devices, applications, infrastructure, and networks as well as proactive troubleshooting, recommendations, and data-driven workplace decisions.

The company also plans to improve SaaS platforms by using a modern microservices architecture with improved integrations, scalability, and security.

“With the addition of Vyopta’s unique capabilities, HP has a tremendous opportunity to unlock fulfilling employee experiences and meet the evolving needs of our customers,” said Masud.

HP Expands Workforce Experience Platform

At HP Imagine 2024 this week, the company said it was expanding access for its Workforce Experience Platform which provides tools for managing fleets of devices and improving employee experience, to customers using HP Proactive Insights at no additional cost.

New features in the Workforce Experience Platform include the ability the “monitor, secure and monitor printer performance at scale” as well as AI-powered fleet management capabilities such as proactive anomaly detection and smart recommendations.

Additionally, the Workforce Experience Platform now supports integrations with Microsoft Power BI, Power Automate, and Tableau.