Remote Graphics Software: The Flexibility to Work and Collaborate Without Compromise

HP Remote Graphics Software allows CATIA V5 users to collaborate on 3D designs, models, and simulations with colleagues across town or across the ocean, streamline design approvals and progress reports, simplify training programs, and work remotely without performance or security compromise.

This exclusive HP utility allows a remote user to access and operate a workstation at the office or in a secure data center, in real-time over standard networks, with full 3D graphics performance, and full security. In addition to the obvious benefit of increasing productivity in the field, HP RGS also provides opportunities to improve collaborative capabilities and support productivity in secure environments.

Collaborative Design and Review Made Simple and Secure
With HP RGS, geography is not a factor in efficient collaborative engineering and design. Design teams, clients, and other stakeholders can use HP RGS to log into a common workstation to view and comment on designs and models while sitting at their own desks. One user controls the host workstation and leads collaborators through the process ensuring data integrity and version control, while the others follow along and comment. Because no one has to travel and no files need to be exchanged, the design, review, and approval process is streamlined and time-to-market is reduced.

Likewise when working with suppliers across town or on the other side of the world, HP RGS allows you to share files that pertain to your work without actually putting the files into their hands, helping prevent unauthorized changes or the accidental injection of malicious code into the file. Critical information is communicated clearly and effectively, without compromising data integrity or exposing intellectual properties.

HP RGS also has utility in training new users, allowing the training leader to guide a new user through the process or observe their activities and offer suggestions and tips, without having to sit at their elbow. Training assets are extended and conserved by allowing one skilled trainer to cover a broad geography without leaving his or her office.

Work Remotely, Multitask Effortlessly
HP RGS was originally conceived to help users work more effectively from home or on the road, and it excels in this role. Remote users can use the full power of their primary workstation from wherever they need to be, operating it as if they were sitting in front of it. From a remote location a user can easily present stunning demonstrations for prospective clients, provide powerful review sessions for current clients, or just maintain productivity while at home.

This is all made possible by an HP patented compression algorithm developed for the NASA Mars Rover program that compresses and encrypts graphics data, even 3D graphics, by a ratio of 170:1 so that it can move almost instantly back and forth across standard networks. Since all critical data is kept safely behind the company firewalls, it is also absolutely secure. As an added bonus, by keeping all files and data processing resident on the “Sending” workstation, the “Receiving” machine can be fairly basic, although a workstation-class graphics card is recommended for best performance. This saves your organization money by allowing them to deploy less expensive remote assets, and again, protects data integrity.

Accessing multiple workstations simultaneously is also a snap with HP RGS, allowing CATIA users involved in intensely complex design and analysis processes to ensure that mission critical applications have all the horsepower they need to run efficiently without burdening their workspace with extra machines and their associated heat and noise. Using a single workstation with multiple displays a user can access multiple workstations located in a central data center to design on one workstation running CATIA V5, run analysis on another, and perform administrative and office tasks on yet another. And they can switch back and forth between them by simply moving the cursor from one screen to the next.

HP Remote Graphics Software give you the tools you need to work more flexibly, collaborate more effectively, and maximize your time and resources in the office or on the road so that you can achieve greater productivity, serve your customers more effectively, and grow your business.

To find out more, please visit the HP Remote Graphics Software page and download a 30-day trial version.

More than ten years ago, HP inaugurated the Design for Environment (DfE) program with the goal of reducing the environmental impact of products and services. The objective is to design products that are not only powerful, but which also use fewer materials, are more energy efficient, and are easier to recycle. Product stewards in each business and region work with product designers, R&D teams, and customers to identify, prioritize, and recommend environmental design innovations ensuring that HP products not only meet the latest green standards, but exceed them wherever possible.

Energy conservation is designed into every HP product. Currently all HP PC’s and LCD displays running Microsoft Windows operating systems as well as many HP imaging and printing products are Energy Star compliant. While the need for high throughput in certain applications makes Energy Star compliance difficult in some product categories, intelligent power management systems are incorporated in HP servers and workstations, and Dynamic Smart Cooling systems are used in data centers to minimize power use while maintaining performance.

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Over ten years ago, HP began offering a convenient and free method for customers to recycle LaserJet printer supplies. Today this service has been extended worldwide and includes InkJet supplies, diverting thousands of tons of materials from landfills each year.

Used IT equipment contains many valuable or recyclable materials. HP provides a convenient way to recycle used IT hardware products from all manufacturers. Through partnerships with leading recycling firms worldwide, HP ensures responsible recycling of these products. In fiscal year 2006 HP recycled more than 164 million pounds or 74 million kilograms of hardware and HP printer cartridges globally, an increase of 16 percent over the previous year.

Trade it, Return it, Donate it
HP’s recycling efforts go beyond end-of-life products though. HP also offers trade-in-programs that allow consumers to trade in aging HP and non-HP technologies in all product categories and upgrade to new HP products. HP also pays cash for the return of qualified equipment no longer needed by corporate clients. The equipment is refurbished and resold – given a second life — rather than languishing in a storeroom and then being thrown away.

In partnership with the National Cristina Foundation, HP makes it easy to donate used computer equipment in the US, providing a tax benefit for the donor and providing valuable IT equipment to people who might not otherwise be able to get it. This program provides an important social benefit as well as serving and environmental need.

Reducing the Global Environmental Footprint
HP was one of the first global businesses to implement a comprehensive environmental management system to drive performance in all aspects and facets of the operation. Systems and audit processes are continually refined to ensure HP facilities and operations minimize waste, conserve energy, and buy as much energy as possible from green power sources. Because of this, HP was one of the first to achieve company-wide ISO 14001 certification for worldwide manufacturing operations.

It is important to HP that its partners are also good global citizens. It selects partners who, like HP, seek and achieve continuous improvement in minimizing the environmental impacts of their work while working to improve social conditions.

HP believes that it is not enough just to be a leading technology provider. As a global business operating all around the world, HP believes that it must be a leader in Global Citizenship. Pioneering environmentally responsible products, processes, and business practices is an important aspect of good global citizenship, and one that HP is very proud to pursue every day.

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