CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
10 August 2004
Product News
HP Software Enables Remote, Real-time Collaboration for Graphics-intensive Industries
HP introduced new software that allows customers in graphics-intensive fields such as engineering and graphic design to collaborate with teams across geographically dispersed regions in real time.
HP Remote Graphics, an interactive 3D graphics software application, enables artists, engineers and designers to work closely with remote teams in a more productive manner and eliminates the need to upgrade to an expensive 3D graphics card on each user's machine. The software can be used with workstations, notebooks or commercial desktop PCs, and with visual image quality true to the original, it provides users with an easy-to-use, secure collaboration solution at an affordable price.
HP Remote Graphics provides an alternative to high-bandwidth-consuming software for businesses with multiple national or international locations. It also removes the 2D collaboration limitation of other software alternatives by allowing customers to work with large 3D models, such as those in the digital content creation (DCC), mechanical computer-aided design and computer-aided engineering (MCAD/CAE) industries.
The software can reduce expensive travel costs associated with face-to-face meetings by enabling such information to be transferred securely across a standard network connection by hosting the intellectual property within a secured network boundary.
HP Remote Graphics software uses the company's proprietary compression and decompression technology to enable cross-regional collaboration and sharing on graphics-intensive projects over a standard network connection with minimal lag time between the sender rendering and the receiver updates.
HP Remote Graphics software creates new business efficiencies and changes the way people collaborate and work together across geographically dispersed areas. Some examples include:
• Workplace collaboration: Engineers can cross collaborate on designs and projects regardless of their location;
• Classroom learning: Instructors can give tutorials and remotely oversee and provide input to students in real time;
• Remote information technology (IT) support: IT support staff can better visualize and assist users on remote computing systems;
• Sales demonstrations: Early product designs can be delivered to a remote client location from the main sales office;
• Work/life balance: Entire industries can now realize the productivity and flexibility benefits of working from home while connecting to the office.
Customer implementations of HP Remote Graphics software include:
• A major automotive company headquartered in the United States that conducts early design review with branch offices in Germany, Australia and Mexico;
• The National University of Singapore-enables its students to access CAE applications running on high-performance HP Workstations running HP-UX from their desktop PCs for visualization; and
• The Savannah College of Art and Design-sees the potential of this software to enable students in remote locations, including France, to collaborate with students and teachers at their Georgia campus.
Availability and pricing
HP Remote Graphics software is expected to be available in October from authorized resellers or direct from HP at http://software.hp.com starting at an estimated U.S. street price of $399 for HP systems, including licenses for a single sender and receiver. Additional receiver licenses are expected to be available for an estimated U.S. street price of $99 each.(1)
HP Remote Graphics software will be sold as stand-alone software, compatible with most high-performance workstations and high-end commercial desktop PCs. The software is designed for HP-UX 11.0 or later, Microsoft Windows® 2000 and XP and Red Hat Linux platforms.
More information on HP Remote Graphics software is available at http://www.hp.com/go/virtual
(1) Actual prices may vary.
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