Channel Blockbuster: HPE's New AI Opportunity Engine Takes Sales Proposals From 45 Days To 45 Seconds

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Tuesday unveiled a breakthrough cloud-based machine learning platform that slashes the time it takes to do custom sales proposals from 45 days to just 45 seconds, said HPE Storage Senior Vice President and General Manager Tom Black. Black--the hard-charging leader of HPE's storage business who conceived of the new cloud-based machine learning platform--said the Software Defined Opportunity Engine (SDOE) quickly analyzes a customer's IT environment and delivers the optimal IT solution. Specifically, SDOE analyzes a customer's IT environment, runs it through a cloud-based data lake of 1,250 trillion data points and provides the optimal solution scenario. "This is a massive productivity increase for partners looking to get to the sales close meeting and get the PO [purchase order]," said Black. "When you partner with HPE, we help you go fast. We help you increase your revenue. We help you increase the velocity of your growth and increase your customer relevancy in a way that our competitors currently do not have the ability to do. Sales productivity goes up substantially with the SDOE. What used to take 45 days can now be done in 45 seconds."