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HP Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Management Tools

HP Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Management Tools

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Editorial Team

Published on

8 Jun 2026

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News Highlights

  • Highlights HP Workforce Experience Platform (WXP) as a unified DEX platform, delivering visibility across multi‑vendor devices and applications, with unique depth across PC, print and meeting room experiences
  • Signals a shift toward unified, cross-platform DEX platforms as enterprises look to manage growing IT complexity end-to-end
  • Reinforces the move from reactive IT support to proactive, AI-driven experience management focused on measurable business outcomes

HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Employee Experience Management Tools. The report evaluates vendors based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute in the evolving digital employee experience (DEX) market.

As organizations rethink business value creation in an increasingly volatile, distributed and high-stakes world, DEX has become synonymous with how work gets done. Providing employees with the tools, environments, and experiences that enable them to do their best work is now a strategic priority for CIOs and IT leaders.

With this transformation underway, HP has continued to advance its Workforce Experience Platform (WXP) to help organizations manage and improve digital employee experience at scale through data‑driven insights, automation and proactive remediation.

“DEX is evolving. CIOs need a platform that can manage the full workforce experience, not just PC performance,” said Faisal Masud, Division President of Digital Services, HP Inc. “WXP is exactly that, delivering visibility and control across multi-vendor devices and applications with additional depth on HP devices. This recognition validates our role in defining what modern DEX should look like. We are proud to be a Leader in DEX as the category enters its next phase.”

 HP’s Perspective on this Recognition

Gartner evaluates vendors in this market based on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision, a lens that assesses not only how well solutions meet enterprise needs today, but whether vendors can scale, evolve and deliver value as digital work becomes more complex. Being recognized as a Leader underscores HP’s ability to operate at global scale, execute consistently across large environments and invest for the long term in a rapidly evolving DEX market.

For IT leaders, this recognition for HP’s WXP matters because digital employee experience has evolved from a ‘nice to have’ to a strategic lever for delivering measurable improvements in workforce productivity, cost optimization and operational resilience. As collaboration platforms, hybrid work and device diversity continue to expand, a unified view across all employee technology touchpoints paired with employee experience insights gives IT the ability to anticipate, automate and accelerate IT tasks to prevent disruption to employee satisfaction, productivity or business results.

According to Gartner, WXP delivers that visibility through a SaaS-based platform hosted on Amazon Web Services, supporting Windows, macOS, Android, Linux and thin clients, while importing telemetry from iOS, iPadOS, ChromeOS, printers, collaboration technology and spaces, and IoT devices through integrations. Just as importantly, WXP brings experience data together across endpoints, applications, unified communications, virtualization environments and printers, enabling IT teams to move beyond siloed monitoring toward proactive, automated experience management.

What Sets HP Workforce Experience Platform Apart

WXP is designed to help IT leaders shift from traditional, reactive device management to a holistic workforce experience strategy, with unified visibility and control across employee computing, print and collaboration experiences. Key use cases include:

  • Cost Optimization: Gartner identified this as HP’s highest‑scoring use case, citing deep hardware‑level telemetry and Smart PC Refresh modeling to help extend device lifecycles and reduce costs.
  • Unified Communications Experience: Broad, API‑driven monitoring across major collaboration platforms for more reliable meeting and collaboration experiences.
  • Print Integration: WXP uniquely brings together actionable insights on printer experience and performance in a single solution.
  • Endpoint Experience: Unique hardware‑level management for HP devices, including firmware and BIOS update technologies.
  • Workflows and Automation: Proactive remediation engines and low‑code workflow orchestration to detect and resolve device instability automatically.
  • Industry Partnerships: Deep industry collaborations that facilitate strategic development of WXP capabilities in alignment with the latest employee experience technologies.

HP delivered 12 major WXP updates in 2025, above the market average, reflecting a rapid pace of innovation as the platform continues to mature.

HP’s Perspective on the DEX Market

From HP’s point of view, the DEX market is evolving beyond reactive troubleshooting toward preventive, AI‑assisted experience management. IT leaders are increasingly expected to deliver measurable outcomes: fewer disruptions, faster resolution times, lower costs and better employee satisfaction.

  • HP believes the future of DEX lies in combining:
  • Deep device and hardware intelligence
  • Cross-platform experience visibility
  • AI-driven, predictive insights into both technology performance and employee sentiment
  •  Automation that resolves issues before employees are impacted

WXP was built with this vision in mind. Gartner’s recognition reinforces that direction.

 

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Digital Employee Experience Management Tools, Dan Wilson, Stuart Downes, Robin Milton-Schonemann, June 8, 2026

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Frequently asked questions

Here's everything you need to know about WXP.

  • What is the HP Workforce Experience Platform (WXP)?

    WXP is an AI-powered digital employee experience (DEX) solution that integrates with various systems and devices to maximize IT efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance the employee experience.1

  • How does WXP work?

    WXP equips technology leaders with detailed performance insights of PCs, printers and more, coupled with enhanced preventative workflows to maximize end-user productivity while reducing costs. The SaaS-based platform also has an advanced employee engagement engine and integrates with various third-party systems like ServiceNow, PowerBI, and Tableau, along with integrating printers, virtual desktops, mobile devices and more to maximize IT efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance the employee experience.

  • Can WXP be customized to fit specific business needs?

    The platform’s modular design allows for tailored customization and scalability to meet specific business needs. Presently, WXP integrates capabilities for fleet management (formerly HP Proactive Insights) and employee engagement, facilitating direct communication between IT and employees, and targeted feedback collection via device pop-ups and self-help capabilities. Planned optional, add-on modules will include additional devices for fleet management, endpoint security, and Digital Workspaces powered by HP Anyware, all supported by enterprise-level support. Additionally, there are add-on options for hardware, managed services, and print software.

  • How is WXP modular?

    WXP is designed to be modular, allowing organizations to tailor the solution to their specific needs, including Fleet Management, Employee Engagement, Digital Workspaces, and Endpoint Security.

    The modular design allows companies to select the capabilities needed to achieve business goals. New capabilities can be added to an existing portal as their business needs change and expand. Initially, WXP comes with fleet management and employee engagement, with the ability to add-on endpoint security, digital workplaces, and/or HP support services for an additional fee.

  • Is WXP compatible with different vendors and operating systems?

    The Platform’s agnostic design allows seamless integration with systems and devices running Windows, macOS, and Android operating systems, regardless of manufacturer. WXP is a cloud-based solution that uses firewall-friendly network ports and sits atop other systems versus a rip-and-replace solution. It does not require a VPN or direct, deep access to customer networks.

  • How does WXP integrate with other IT tools to provide a more comprehensive solution?

    WXP has open APIs for incident and analytics integration to IT tools, as well as pre-configured connectors for ServiceNow, PowerBI, and Tableau available in the 3rd party integrations.

  • What is a Workforce Experience score?

    A Workforce Experience score combines telemetry and user satisfaction sentiment for a comprehensive view of the digital workforce experience. The score refreshes daily, ensuring timely insights. Understand which departments, device models, operating systems, countries, site locations, and devices with specific software installed are experiencing the lowest and highest Experience scores.

    The main dashboard provides a snapshot of the workforce experience and critical recommendations for IT teams to act on. IT teams quickly understand where to focus with insights from the Experience score and trendline, fleet inventory breakdown, apps with poor performance, and sentiment by persona.

  • How is AI used within WXP?

    AI is built into the fabric of WXP and makes it easy for IT teams to optimize processes and prevent technology issues by providing:

    • Recommendations: Identify issues from device data and survey results to share recommended actions.
    • Assistance: Take the recommendation and make it executable by IT or an end-user in just a few clicks.
    • Automation: Experience optimization with AI anticipating issues and resolving them with no human involvement.
  • How can I buy WXP and find out about new releases?

    WXP is now available to new and renewing HP Proactive Insights customers in the United States at no additional cost.

    Additionally, our beta program is expanding to more countries, in a multi-phased, customer-focused approach to solve our customers’ biggest pain points. Talk to an HP expert to see how WXP can intelligently anticipate and resolve digital friction within your organization.

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