HP ELITEBOOK 745 WITH

AMD PRO TECHNOLOGY

Success story Sonoco + AMD

Innovative technology for an inventive
packaging solutions provider
HP EliteBook 745 and HP EliteDesk 705 G3 with AMD PRO technology

Overview Finally, the 117-year-old company views information technology as a

Founded in 1899, Sonoco is a $4.8 billion global provider of consumer
packaging, industrial products, protective solutions, and display and
packaging services. Headquartered in Hartsville, South Carolina, Sonoco
serves customers in 85 nations and produces packaging for many of
the worlds most recognized brands.
Sonocos strategic vision is to be the global leader in providing inventive
packaging solutions that optimize their customers businesses and brands.
Like many industry-leading organizations, Sonoco relies on AMD innovation.
Challenge
business driver, not just business cost-center. Accordingly, Sonocos
IT professionalswhich it refers to as Business Technologists are
expected to operate on a tight budget and innovate in order to find
ways to do more with less.
Solution
In the Spring of 2015 Sonoco began six months of strategic field testing
of the HP EliteBook 745 G2 notebooks. Those systems included an AMD
Quad-Core APU, Radeon Graphics, HP Client Management Solutions
and DASH support.

Sonoco has more than With tight budgets we had to find a way to
300 operation sites increase the value to Sonoco. AMDs value
proposition piqued my interest and allowed
in 33 different countries
Sonoco BT to standardize and drive out cost.
Sonoco is committed to both corporate sustainability and shareholder
value. Accordingly, the organization faced three distinct challenges on
the technology front: standardization, sustainability and affordability.
- KAROL KJ JAMROK
Sonoco needed to establish global technology standards that would support SENIOR GLOBAL TECHNICAL
its nearly 20,000 employees and estimated 10,000 network nodes, which SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, SONOCO
include everything from servers to tablets and engineering workstations,
desktops, digital printers, smart phones and thin client hardware.

Additionally, Sonoco was interested in energy-efficient technologies

that would complement its commitment to recycling approximately
three million tons of paper, metal and plastic per year, and its
recognition as a sustainable and responsible corporate citizen by Dow
Jones Sustainability World Index, Corporate Responsibility Magazine,
and Newsweek Magazines Green Rankings.
Pleased with initial feedback from employees from a wide variety of
duties and settings ranging from plant shop floor to graphic design
and engineers, Sonoco next deployed the HP EliteDesk 705 G3 Mini
and Small Form Factor (SFF) PCs. AMD was there to help educate
us, if necessary, which made it a seamless transition. Everything was
smooth and flawless, Sonocos KJ said.
Employees with graphics-related duties embraced the benefits of
AMDs industry-leading Radeon technologies, while engineering and
technical staff found they were able to quickly access their applications
and algorithms.
The organization known for its dedication to sustainability also
increased the sustainability of its business technology investments.
Due to the reliability and quality of the products AMD puts under the
HP hood, Ive had no need to go to AMD for support, KJ added. Since
switching over to AMD, weve almost doubled product life cycles, and
the fact that many AMD products and chipsets consume less power is
an added bonus.
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In Spring of 2016, Sonoco transitioned divisions and departments to Sonoco currently refreshes or deploys between 1,500 and 2,000 PCs
all AMD-based products, including laptops, desktops and thin clients. per year and saves approximately $50 per AMD-based desktops.
The more standardized and the leaner and meaner we can get, KJ By 2020, Sonocos Business Technology team expects to refresh or
said, the easier it is to manage Business Technology across the globe. deploy approximately 9,000 AMD-based units.

Benefits
Sonoco refreshed or deployed AMD-based workstations per year.
Subsequent to a widening implementation of AMD technologies,
Sonoco has saved significant capital and operating expense, increased
product life cycles and reduced energy consumption and costs.
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

In 2016 we budgeted $50,000 in productivity 1,500 to 2,000

refreshed PCs
Up to 9,000
refreshed PCs
savings by switching to AMD. Through June of
2016 we saved $50,000 in capital and operating
expense, and by the end of 2016 we saved over
$100,000. Im confident that the savings will only
increase as we continue to leverage more AMD
solutions down the road.

- KAROL KJ JAMROK
SENIOR GLOBAL TECHNICAL
SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, SUNOCO

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