
Organisations that want to be the best must invest in best-in-class technologies. That is none truer than now, in this digital age, when digital transformation is the norm. Companies in Southeast Asia are recognising this emerging reality and are embracing it—first in response to disruptors such as Grab, Shopee and GoJek that have thrived by leveraging cutting-edge technological solutions and, lately, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced consumers to go digital themselves.
Central to this digital transformation are computers but not the cheap, laggy kind that takes forever to load. What companies need if they want to transform digitally are high-end, fast, powerful and purpose-built computers that can handle the most resource-intensive tasks and software and run the most complex application environments, like that of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Mixed Reality (MR).
All About Power—Lots and Lots of Power
In other words, companies need to provide the necessary workspaces for their power users—staff with highly advanced digital skills who can operate sophisticated and often specific applications and tasks. They are the graphic designers and video editors, the Excel experts and the SAP specialists, the applications developers and the software engineers.
Power users, of course, need powerful workspaces because they need, well, plenty of power to do what they do, on top of the basic everyday tasks regular computer users do, like browse the web, create Word documents and send emails. The tasks power users need to complete, like rendering images, processing videos, creating apps and editing music, require lots of computing power, and that is something only power workspaces with high-end, top-of-the-line machines can give. Otherwise, it can really slow down the innovation process and the quality of their work will be adversely affected, much to the detriment of the company.
Consider, for instance, a video production company, whose power users are the video editors. Suppose each has to edit and render videos on an i3 computer with a 4GB memory and a built-in 256MB video card. Given this workspace, it is highly unlikely that quality work will get done on time, all the time, because a 10-minute video would take a long time to render if it does at all.
Upgrade those computers to a Dell Precision 5820 Tower, which is available at leading solutions provider Ingram Micro, and things will be radically different, with work getting done on time and of high quality. The 5820, with its powerful processors and up to 512GB of 2933MHz DDR4 ECC memory, Radeon Pro or NVIDIA Quadro graphics, scalable storage of up to 68TB and revolutionary multichannel thermal design, is perfect for professionals working with graphics and data-intensive design applications. The Dell Precision 5820 Tower, in other words, is a power workspace, and it is guaranteed to get the best out of its power user—the video editor in the above example.
Power users handling interactive design, Big Data, AI and MR, among others, need as much computing power, if not more if they are to maximise the business benefits of said technologies, like analysing Big Data for insightful decision making, using AI for automation and creating MR experiences for customers.
For these to get completed, though, an organisation’s power users will need power workspaces, ideally powered by the Dell 7920 Tower, Dell’s most powerful and scalable, AI-ready workstation to date. The 7920 Tower is specifically for end-users running complex application environments that interactive design, data science and exploration, AI and more. In fact, the 7920 Tower can handle pretty much any workload with its single or dual multi-core processors (up to 2 Intel Xeon CPUs, up to 28 Cores per CPU), Radeon Pro or NVIDIA Quadro RTXTM graphics (up to 3x 300W cards), up to 3TB of 2933MHz and storage up to 136TB. It also features Dell’s revolutionary multichannel thermal cooling, enabling this power workspace to run at top speeds without overheating.
Empowering the Entire Workforce
While businesses should rightfully give their power users power workspaces, it doesn’t mean they should skimp out on everyone else. These days, it makes just as much business sense to look at everyone in the organisation as a sort of power user and someone capable of doing value-adding work to the business. But if everyone will be viewed as a power user, everyone must be given power, too, even if it is a notch or two below what a genuine power user requires. This way, they are empowered just the same and are more likely to do their best work—much to the benefit of the company.
Letting everyone in the workforce have their own power workspace (or something close to it) is a considerable investment but an organisation can recoup part of that investment in the way of increased productivity. Put simply, staff can do more in less time if they are using high-end computers, such as the Dell Precision 5760, because the applications and software will load faster, downtimes due to lag will be minimised and performance will be quick and seamless.
Another benefit to giving staff their own power workspace is that it improves morale. That’s because when employees are given best of class equipment, they are likely to take it positively and view it as management’s way of recognising their vital role in the business. In return, they are more likely to give their best and, more importantly, stay with the company, in turn reducing high turnover rates that can be very costly. Take all these benefits together and the initial investment of giving everybody a power workspace will end up as capital well spent by the company.
Extending the Power All the Way Home
Given the still continuing rise of homeworking, companies can choose to empower their employees to work from home as well. This is especially true given EY Parthenon’s latest study in which only 15% out of 16,000 employees surveyed across Southeast Asia wanted to work on-site full-time. Seven in ten, meanwhile, are in favour of hybrid work arrangements, while six in ten would rather quit if not afforded flexibility.
In effect, companies unwilling to go remote run the risk of losing talent, including even their best people. So, to avoid this potentially costly fallout in the near future, organisations will need to offer homeworking, or at least a hybrid arrangement, by making sure that employees working from home have their own power workspaces – like the Dell Precision 7560, with its Intel Xeon and CoreTM i9 processors, NVIDIA RTXTM A5000 graphics, up to 16TB of storage and 128GB of high capacity 3200MHz memory, and the Dell Precision 5760, with its Intel Xeon and CoreTM processors, ECC memory options (up to 64GB of 3200MHz), NVIDIA RTXTM A3000 graphics and Dell Optimiser for Precision.
With these kinds of workstations, companies are all but guaranteed to get the best out of their empowered workforce—even if they are working from home.
Why Dell Anyway?
Dell is, put simply, is the perfect solution for organisations looking to create power spaces for their power users. It makes the world’s number 1 workstation in Precision, which are Dell’s highest performing, most reliable and fully customisable computers engineered specifically for professional applications, like graphic designing and engineering. Precision workstations also feature the AI-based Dell Optimiser for Precision, which ensures system reliability that tunes the hardware for specific applications, as well as Dell Technologies on Demand, which helps provide organisations flexible end-to-end solutions for their infrastructure needs.
Dell Precision workstations, again, are available at Ingram Micro, where organisations can get the best of class digital solutions for their digital transformation journey.
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