Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 18 | Page 88

t cht lk and recommend configuration changes that optimise the network before impacting users or the business. personalised experiences that will foster employee creativity, collaboration, speed and freedom. To address this challenge, Aruba has expanded the analytics and assurance capabilities of its Mobile First Architecture with its new NetInsight solution. NetInsight uses machine learning to continuously monitor the network, deliver insights in the event of anomalies and then recommends how best to optimise the network for today’s mobile-first employees and workplace-critical IoT devices, based on data that is specific to user connectivity and RF performance attributes. Leveraging its mobile first architecture, Aruba has expanded its ArubaEdge Technology Partner Program with a new category of partners that include commercial real estate (CRE), connected furniture and new technology companies. Together with Aruba, this new set of partners will create modern workplaces that uniquely pair end user mobility, secure connectivity and location with the sensory context of enterprise IoT. These experiences range from personalised workspace ergonomics and lighting, to mobile UC and fully automated conference rooms, to preventive equipment maintenance and automated energy conservation, on a single infrastructure. Building the smart digital workplace with an ecosystem of proven partners Mobility, cloud and IoT adoption is changing the future of work, demanding an autonomous approach to networking. Highly efficient, IoT-enabled smart buildings are intersecting with the mobile-first digital workplace. This new paradigm is forming a smart digital workplace that needs to deliver secure and reliable, optimised and “Consumers have come to expect seamless experiences in everything that they do and that includes the workplace,” said Sandeep Davé, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Global Workplace Solutions at CBRE. “Our clients, as they seek to attract and retain their best and brightest, are finding it important to deliver an enhanced workplace experience. They are turning to CBRE to deliver experiential services and a digital workplace, which we do via CBRE 360, an experience services offering enabled by leading technology. There is strong alignment between CBRE’s goal of creating next generation workplace environments with integrated property services and “ THE WORKPLACE HAS EVOLVED INTO EXPERIENCES IN WHICH PEOPLE, CONTENT AND TOOLS MUST SEAMLESSLY INTERACT. Aruba has introduced NetInsight, an artificial intelligence (AI) based analytics and assurance solution for optimising network performance 88 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com